Editorials
Editorials
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EDITORIALS
Sexual assault in the military
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and deal with cases of sexual assault. That’s a valid response to the thousands of assaults, but a top-to-bottom culture change is needed before this problem can...
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EDITORIALS
Keep York County buses running
York County Access, the on-demand bus service that takes county residents to medical appointments, grocery shopping and jobs, is a service for people who otherwise don’t have access to affordable transportation. It was never designed to be a profit generating business for the county.
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EDITORIALS
Small-business incentives could help spur activity downtown
Rock Hill’s incentive program to attract and keep restaurants to the city’s downtown hasn’t worked out so well. Maybe the city will have better luck with perks for small high-tech businesses.
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Upgrade SC school bus system
The priorities of our state lawmakers are hard to fathom in many aspects of the budgeting process. But it is especially alarming that they don’t care enough about the welfare of our children to provide them with safe school buses.
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EDITORIALS
Records seizure intrusive
After the attacks of 9 / 11, the nation has been engaged in something of a tug of war between the interests of national security and First Amendment rights. And too often our constitutional rights have been subverted in the name of security.
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EDITORIALS
Ban texting while driving
Your teenager’s cell phone is more dangerous to him or her than a bottle of booze.
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EDITORIALS
IRS probe necessary
If the Internal Revenue Service targeted groups for extra scrutiny because of their political beliefs, that not only is inappropriate, it’s also illegal.
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EDITORIALS
Charging sales taxes online
Fairness is the key. If businesses on the ground are charging sales taxes, those in the ether should too.
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Share mental health data
An unsuccessful attack by a person with mental problems had a silver lining. It prompted state lawmakers to enact legislation that would share mental health data with federal authorities to help curb gun violence.
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EDITORIALS
York Tech acted responsibly
York Technical College could teach the state something about how to react to a breach of computer security.


