Andrew Card salutes Leadership Columbia
Recent White House chief of staff makes plans
By John Temple Ligon
     Andrew H. Card Jr., chief of staff for President George W. Bush over the past six years, addressed the alumni of Leadership Columbia in the main ballroom of the Capital City Club last Friday, June 16. The lunchtime crowd filled the room to hear Card recall his White House memories and to share in hi
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Star Profile
Dennis Hiltner of the Gourmet Shop
By John Temple Ligon
     Dennis Hiltner was born the first of eight children on a 90-acre farm in Langdon, N.D. At The Gourmet Shop, 58 years later, Hiltner reflected recently on North Dakota winters. Columbia is in the tropics.
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
     Gas taxes and gas prices North Carolina's gas tax is $0.299 a gallon, the nation's sixth highest, and is to stay there for another year. Next year, however, state officials suggest it could rise by more than a penny if gas prices remain higher than last year's levels and if the legislature d
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Folks about town
     In a special promotion held at the Citadel, Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom
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Final Reckoning
Movie production begins in Columbia
     North Carolina's Monica Palumbo, starring in the local film production of
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