The problem with strays: public and private solutions
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      The Columbia Animal Shelter is on Humane Lane, as indicated by artist Blue Sky's oversized cat and dog profiles facing Shop Road. The shelter takes in 13,000 stray cats and dogs annually, and it euthanizes 10,000 by lethal injection.
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Drilling offshore South Carolina By Wednesday, June 25, President Bush was expected to overturn the 1990 federal ban on offshore drilling, the same ban signed by his father, President George H. W. Bush, #41. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R- S.C., has been pushing for offshore oil exploration along the nation's coast.
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Folks about town
      Eleven Nexsen Pruet attorneys have been named among the top legal practitioners in their fields in the 2008 edition of the Chambers USA Guide: David Dubberly for labor and employment law, Vickie Eslinger for general commercial litigation, David Gossett for real estate, Mark Knight for corporate/mergers and acquisitions,
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Tracy Johnson of Project Pet
Profile
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      In both Richland County and Lexington County over the past year there were roughly 19,000 dogs and cats euthanized, and that was probably a bit less than the national average on a population basis. The 19,000 euthanized was a major part of the 23,000 dogs and cats taken in over the year.
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