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March 7: St. Pat's Kick-Off in 5 Points |
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Written by Melanie Knight
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
First Friday - Official Kick-Off to St. Pat's in Five Points
Help dye the fountain green, enjoy live music, face painting, and more!
Be sure and come by CPRC's table!
Free event.
www.fivepointscolumbia.com
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March 19: Columbia City Council meeting |
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Written by Melanie Knight
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
Five Points "Future Five" rezoning plan to be presented to the City Council for approval at a public hearing on Wednesday, March 19th, at 10am, City Council Chambers.
Recommendations are available for review at: www.columbiascgateway.com/events_pz.asp.
In a letter to the editor of The State, CPRC board member Don McCallister writes about why it's important to attend this meeting. (CPRC is a member of the Five Points Association, now that we have an office there.)
"As the co-owner of a Five Points small business, I read the article "Building Our City: Five Points Debate Renewed" on Saturday with a sense of foreboding that the carefully considered, fair and balanced Future Five guidelines face opposition and delays due to the concerns of "developers" both on and off the DDRC panel.
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Written by Gerald L. Rudolph
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
We thought the State Legislators had agreed to not redefining renewable energy to include nuclear. Redefining renewables to include nuclear energy might allow funds intended to support renewables like solar, wind, and geothermal energy to be used to increase nuclear power funding. Read about previous effort on S360.
Note from Ann Timberlake on recent events:
After House compromise, bill went to Senate and Sen Ryberg apparently pushed through a Senate motion to ‘non-concur’ meaning that Senate opted to not accept the House language which removed nuclear as a renewable – even though utility lobbyists were pushing acceptance of the compromise. This may have been more about the Senate not wanting to agree with the House, and it all happened very quickly……but it now goes back to the House next Tuesday and we need folks to continue to urge house members to stick with the compromise language. If House sticks to its version, the bill will go to conference committee and we understand that the senate appointees will be friendly to our position (not that we love this bill, but at least it keeps nuclear removed from renewables) so we have a good chance of getting the compromise out of the conference committee.
You can help Ann and others to improve our environment by joining them each Tuesday to lobby the state house.
More information can be found at http://www.conservationvotersofsc.org/
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Mar. 4: Rosewood Community Garden Meeting |
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Written by Lori Donath
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
There will be a planning meeting for people interested in planting at the Rosewood Community Garden.
When: Tuesday, March 4, 4pm
Where: 1100 S. Holly St., behind the Ben Arnold Center
(For map, click "Read more" below).
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Feb. 21: Testify at Election Laws Subcommittee |
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Written by Melanie Knight
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
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Two bills are scheduled for a hearing Thursday, Feb. 21, 1:30 in the House Judiciary Election Laws Subcommittee.
H-4352 calls for photo ID's to vote (the bill originally required photos on registration cards) listing:1. SC driver's license, 2. SC Dept of Motor Vehicle ID card, 3. US passport 4. military ID. "If the voter fails to furnish the required identification, the voter shall be allowed to vote a provisional ballot." All the law requires now is either a voter registration card (no picture) or a driver's license, or the DMV ID. The newly worded H-4352 would delete voter registration card as valid ID. It is the only ID that is free. H-3343 will require proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Both bills purport to address "voter fraud". The fraud is that there is no recorded individual voter fraud in SC. H-3343 would make grassroots voter registration drives nearly impossible, as registrants would have to have a birth certificate or passport on them, and registration drives would have to tote around copy machines. The League of Women Voters and Common Cause have fought these bills all over the country. The only state to pass citizenship requirement (Arizona) is being challenged in the Supreme Court.
If you can testify against these bills, and want talking points, contact: South Carolina Progressive Network, phone: 803-808-3384, e-mail:
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; web: www.scpronet.com
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Women in Black meets in front of the state house at Gervais and Main at
5:00 pm every Wednesday until the US is out of Iraq. Please come.
Post Office Box 7933