WHEN homeland security issues are raised, more often than not the discussion begins with airport security. With millions of passengers -- many arriving from or departing to foreign destinations -- and tons of baggage and cargo passing through our commercial airports each day, maintaining security is a daunting challenge.
- By Paul Brisgone
- Mar 01, 2006
LAURENS Electric is a member-owned rural electric cooperative in upstate South Carolina. Founded in 1939, the co-op provides service to more than 50,000 residential, commercial and industrial consumers in Laurens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Abbeville, Newberry and Union counties.
- By Keith Avery
- Mar 01, 2006
THE role and responsibility of today's emergency responders keeps getting more complicated. Terrorism has changed the landscape for emergency responders forever, as have natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast last August.
- By Col. Timothy D. Ringgold
- Mar 01, 2006