The Fiscal Impact of Sprawl in South Carolina
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By Wyche, Brad  Sprawl has environmental impacts, of course, but it also has a serious impact on our pocketbooks.
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By Matt Garfield, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 16--The collapse of the textile industry left behind more than a legacy of job losses and poverty in center-city Rock Hill.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Dec. 19--We think most citizens can understand why the proposed Fort Mill southern bypass must be routed away from a new subdivision through an older, less populated neighborhood.
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By Lisa Fleisher, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Mar. 6--An alliance of coastal communities along the Grand Strand could band together to request around $120 million in federal funding to address the problem of stormwater runoff.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 12--North Carolina leaders have gone along with financial incentives to lure business relocations largely out of fear.
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By Danya Hooker, The Wisconsin State Journal  Sep. 25--New amendments to the city's 2007 capital budget could, if approved, move forward three major projects on Madison's South Side, heralding a renaissance for troubled neighborhoods.
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By Jessica L. De Vault, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Feb. 19--A group of Hunting Country residents are exploring a number of  options to assure that their spacious, rural region is left unscathed from  high-density development.
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TORONTO (CP) - The effects of urban sprawl and industrial development on Ontario's ecologically sensitive watersheds will be more closely examined under a &#36;12.5 million provincial initiative.
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Should taxpayers pay to safeguard coastal residents from the ocean or should beach towns shovel the sand themselves?
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By The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--Both a state task force last year and the conservation group Environmental Defense this week have drawn similar conclusions about North Carolina's privately owned forests.
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Dec. 18--Newly released numbers show that Charleston's working wages fall  below what's needed to pay the rent.
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By Dawn Hinshaw, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 12--The cost of providing sewerage service to the growing northwest part of Richland County has jumped a second time, likely resulting in even higher monthly rates for current customers and increased tap-on fees for new homeowners.
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By Gina Smith, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 5--Is S.C. Rep. Alan Clemmons' initiative to force public access to the state heritage preserves a good or bad thing? At this point, it is hard to tell.   Clemmons rightly says the S.C.
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Real estate, like politics, is local. In a year when the median price of a single-family home in Massachusetts fell nearly 6 percent -- the biggest drop in a decade -- what you paid depended on where you shopped.
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Urban sprawl is gobbling up open spaces in fast-growing metropolitan areas so quickly that it could spell extinction for nearly 1,200 species of plants and animals, environmental groups say.
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By Matt Garfield and Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 11--York County and Rock Hill are fighting again.   In 1999, it was over taxes on Cherry Road. A lawsuit took almost eight months to settle and cost taxpayers more than $60,000 in legal fees.