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| Candidates for the Charleston County School Board sparred Tuesday night on a number of issues, including money, the superintendent and the school district's progress, during a fast-paced, hour-long debate hosted by the League of Women Voters. Candidates were assigned to one of two groups, and discussion was a little livelier and differences among candidates more apparent in the first round in which three of the four West Ashley candidates faced off. | |||||
| Dems demand answers COLUMBIA â€" The low number of poor children signed up for a program to give them free health care coverage is unacceptable, state House Democrats said Tuesday during a luncheon called to demand an explanation from South Carolina's Medicaid director. The Legislature in June 2007 authorized the state Department of Health and Human Services to provide health care for 60,000 children under South Carolina Health Connections Kids. Depression? This was a depression.When rumors spread through Charleston that the banks were closing, the men on Broad Street ran to get their money out before it was too late. Most didn't make it. Helen Tovey remembers like it was yesterday. She was 10 years old and, although she didn't realize it at the time, the Great Depression had just begun. Today, she can recall people taking any job they could get just to have enough to eat. Families moved in together to save money, and the lucky kids scraped together 5 cents to get an occasional treat from Stender's Bakery. Man pleads guilty in slaying of womanThe family of Johns Island murder victim Elaine Humbert described her as a kindly 62-year-old woman who was always willing to help out a stranger. House approves deep cutsCOLUMBIA â€" A plan to cut nearly $500 million in spending is on its way to the state Senate after the House on Tuesday voted down one proposal after another on everything from raising the cigarette tax to undoing property tax relief.  | ||||
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