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Referendum Q&A Answers to frequently asked questions about the referendums affecting Richland County Richland County sales-tax referendum Question ♦ What is the sales tax referendum for Richland County? ♦ Where will the money go? ♦ Who will have to pay the sales tax? ♦ What items will be exempt from the tax increase? ♦ When will the sales tax increase go into effect? Answer ♦ Richland County residents voted in favor of a one cent sales-tax increase. This increase will bring the tax to 6 cents on the dollar. ♦ The money will be distributed to different schools in Richland County. ♦ Everyone who shops in Richland County. An estimated 25 percent of the tax will be paid by people who live outside the county. k ♦ Medicine and medical devices, gasoline, rent, water bills, electric bills, food eligible to be purhased with food stamps, and any item with a sales tax capped at $300. ♦ The tax will start May 1,2003. Richland County 1 school-bond referendum Question ♦ Why did Richland 1 hold a bond referendum? ♦ How will the district pay for it? Answer ♦ Richland 1 wants to rebuild schools and make renovations to its middle and high schools. These changes will cost $381 million. ♦ The sales-tax increase will finance the renovations. Source: The State newspaper unnriuu o i onnmi ivi^Lnuun/ i nc unmc^/Uurv Preston (Residential) College invites all interested individuals to join the College's Faculty, Staff and Residents for a Recruitment Dance in the Russell House Ballroom on Monday, November 11 at eight o' clock in the evening. come see what the buzz is about! refreshments provided National CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and a president whose ap proval ratings remained at envi able levels despite a sputtering economy. Republicans also enjoyed fi nancial superiority. A Federal Election Commission analysis said the Republican National Committee and its congressional campaign arms had outraised their Democratic counterparts by $184 million through mid-October. In the last campaign of a free spending era, all 435 House seats were on the ballot, as well as 34 Senate seats and three dozen state house races. Voters filled state leg islatures and school boards, de cided whether to legalize posses sion of small amounts of marijua na in Nevada, and settled count less ballot issues elsewhere. Democrats, too, campaigned with one eye on the next election, none more so than Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri, the party’s House leader and a likely presi dential contender in two years. In all, Republicans defended 23 of the 36 governorships on the bal lot, while Democrats were defend ing 11. Two seats were held by out « going independents. Blagojevich delivered Illinois, and Ed Rendell followed with a victory in Pennsylvania. Bush aside, GOP governors win-* ning new terms included Gforge Pataki in New York, Mike Johanns in Nebraska, Bob Taft in Ohio, John Rowland in Connecticut, Kenny Guinn ift Nevada and Bill Owens in Colorado. Craig Benson won a first term in New Hampshire, and Mitt Romney kept Massachusetts in GOP hands. Mike Rounds succeeded a Republican in South Dakota. The GOP was defending 20' Senate seats, to 14 for the Democrats. Besides Dole, who succeeds Sen. Jesse Helms in Noj-th Carolina, Republican Lindsey Graham won the South Carolina seat of Sen. Strom Thurmond. Lamar Alexander kept a Tennessee seat in Republican hands. Senators winning re-election in cluded Democrats John Kerry in Massachusetts, Richard Durbin in Illinois; Jay Rockefeller in West Virginia, Joseph Biden in Rhode Island, Jack Reed in Rhode Island, Carl Levin in Michigan and Max Baucus in Montana. Sen. Frank Lautenberg was elected to the Senate from New Jersey, two years after retiring, and less than a month after he replaced Sen. Robert Torricelli on the ballot. Republican winners of new terms included Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, John Warner of Virginia, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Mike Enzi of Wyoming, James Irihofe of Oklahoma, Susan Collins in Maine and Pete Domenici in New Mexico. Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson battled Rep.'John Thune in South Dakota, and Democratic Sen. Jean Carnahan ran against former Rep. Jim Talent in a bid for the four years remaining on her late hus band’s term in Missouri. Embattled GOP incumbents in cluded Sen. Tim Hutchinson, up against Mark Pryor in Arkansas; and Wayne Allard, in a Colorado rematch with Tom Strickland. In Minnesota, former. Vice President Walter F. Mondale sought a return to the Senate in a race against former 'St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman. 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