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Haiti President Rene Preval met with President Barack Obama and Congress this week to discuss Haiti’s most-pressing needs. Relief workers and U.S. government officials say that Haiti is far from recovered after an earthquake January 12 crumbled the country’s infrastructure. The Haitian government estimates that 230,000 died because of the disaster.

Students on road to Cange

A team of Clemson University civil engineering students are working in that troubled island over the next week.  They will be working in Cange, a remote village two hours from Port-au-Prince.They are prepared for that they might face because they were helping Haiti before the quake hit.

Adam Delk is a graduate  student and we talked to him Friday about the trip made by Clemson Engineers for Developing Countries.

(Adam Delk explains their long-term work in Cange MP3 2:47)

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SC voters to decide union voting regulation (Audio)

by Ashley Byrd 03/12/10 5:14 PM

The General Assembly has passed a measure to protect secret balloting for workers in elections for union representation. The House and Senate moved the bill through this week and it will be on the statewide ballot  in the next general election.
Pickens Senator Larry Martin says if this measure becomes a constitutional amendment it will send a strong economic [...]

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Voices from the Statehouse (Audio)

by William Christopher 03/12/10 4:53 PM

William Christopher looks at this past week in the South Carolina legislature.   House budget staff are working through the weekend, taking last-minute requests from lawmakers preparing for next week’s budget debate that begins at 1 p.m. Monday.
(Voices from the Statehouse  MP3  1:45)
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(This is a regular feature of SCRN political coverage)

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Graham takes bipartisan immigration reform effort to the White House

by Tom Hayes 03/12/10 1:21 PM

Two U.S. senators, one republican and one democrat, are engaging in a bipartisan effort to develop meaningful immigration reform legislation that will fix a system they say remains broken and in desperate need of repair. South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and New York Democrat Charles Schumer were both summoned to the White House Thursday to [...]

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Audit begins on Beaufort County treasurer’s office’s missing money

by Michael Brown 03/12/10 11:55 AM

In Beaufort, an investigation continues to find  missing money from the county treasurer’s office. This week, the Beaufort county administrator and prosecutor hired accountants to begin  an audit to find exactly happened to an amount that could be as much as $300,000 from the treasurer’s office. The money could range anywhere from $4,000 to $300,000, but investigators [...]

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