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TDD audit
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune Columbia has more than its share of transportation development districts. These projects are proposed by developers and approved routinely in circuit court with no local government oversight. They authorize developer landlords to require tenant stores in shopping centers to charge higher sales taxes with the money used to finance associated infrastructure, like roads and interchanges. Tax rates typically range from a half-cent to 1 cent higher in affected stores.
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Co-worker’s good deeds
deserve a big ‘thank you’ Editor, the Tribune: Thank you to the Keith Fernandez family. Keith’s extensive knowledge and helpfulness have benefited our employer in many ways. Keith has recently changed positions in the company, and he no longer will work as closely with my department.
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Newspaper’s liberal bent
apparent in cartoon choice Editor, the Tribune: The continuous direction of the Tribune toward a more liberal stance has been made most apparent in your selection of editorial cartoons. You seem to relish running those that are most vicious in their criticism of the administration, most of which have little basis of truth. I would offer the works of Pat Oliphant as an example.
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Cartoons unfairly malign
Pope Benedict, Catholics Editor, the Tribune: Shame on you, Hank Waters, for maligning Pope Benedict XVI in the editorial section of your paper on July 15. How many leaders of the religions of the world have been treated this poorly by you and your paper?
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Editorial page editor needs own colonoscopy Editor, the Tribune: The editorial cartoon of July 23 prompts me to write in reference to the decline in journalistic standards displayed by the Tribune of late. This particular cartoon shows the results of President George W. Bush’s colonoscopy: the discovery of his head up his colon. A vulgarism of this nature will have offended many Tribune readers and has no place in a newspaper claiming to be journalistic.
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Shelter concert series
a wonderful city gift Editor, the Tribune: Thank you, officers of Shelter Insurance, for again sponsoring a wonderful summer concert series in the Shelter Garden.We Columbians are so fortunate to have a local company that gifts us not onlywith a free concert series every summer, but with a beautiful garden year-round. Many of us would never experience such a variety of music without this free concert series. The setting is perfect, and this year the weatheractually cooperated.
America has forgotten how to wage war
By DIANA WEST Dear Sen. Arlen Specter: I’m writing today because I didn’t get a chance to respond to your parting comment as you left the train last week in Philadelphia. If you recall, we were both riding the Acela out of Washington; I was the columnist sitting across the aisle from you - both literally, and in a Washington way, often, figuratively. I introduced myself and offered you that day’s column for your reading pleasure.
Fashion analysis shows cleavage in coverage
By ELLEN GOODMAN Among the endless reasons I will never run for public office is a deep-seated fear of having my wardrobe subject to the fashion police. Excuse me, the fashion shrinks - those media monitors who seek deep meaning in every shoe, sexual clues in every hemline and psychological insights in every shirt collar.
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