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By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
The Columbia PedNet Coalition promoted a No-Car Diet Challenge during September, at which time residents were encouraged to travel by other means.
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Bad regulation caused financial mess
By MONA CHAREN We have not seen a real financial panic for 80 years - but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t. Just as the psychology that creates bubbles (whether for tulips or real estate) does not change over time, neither does the psychology that stampedes for safety during crashes. If large numbers of people transfer their money to Treasury bonds, the pool of capital available for business and personal loans will dry up and America’s economy will find out what a 21st century depression looks like.
Obama failed to get under McCain’s skin
By MAUREEN DOWD OXFORD, Miss. - The first debate seemed like the perfect moment for Barack Obama to re-enact the Code Red courtroom scene from "A Few Good Men," to slide under John McCain’s skin and irritate until he goaded McCain into doing exactly what he really wanted to do: tell off the whippersnapper who’d never bled for his country.
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