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Adam Beam covers the City of Columbia for The State newspaper. Here, he blogs about local government. Reach him at (803) 386-7038 or abeam@thestate.com
Tag Archives: Columbia Museum of Art
The other groups asking for tax money
A story in today’s paper talks about how six community groups will ask City Council today to spare their funding. These groups get a portion of the city’s community promotions funding, which comes out of the general fund, a.k.a property taxes. But four other groups are also making presentations today, but they don’t get community [...]
British Consul General visits Columbia
Martin Rickerd, the British Consul General, will be in Columbia today for the Columbia Museum of Art’s Turner to Cezanne exhibit. According to a news release from “Famously Hot Columbia,” Mayor Bob Coble and council members will give Rickerd a WARM (get it?) welcome tonight at the Columbia Museum of Art. “We’ll be promoting tourism. [...]
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Columbia Web site out of date
Here’s a guest post from Jeffrey Day, The State’s arts reporter: Want to know about cultural offerings in Columbia? Better not look in the newly redesigned City of Columbia Web Site. There you will find listed The Actor’s Theatre of South Carolina — which hasn’t existed in Columbia for a decade. You will see that [...]
Posted in Columbia city government Also tagged Columbia Web site, Koger Center, Morihiko Nakahara, S.C. Philharmonic Orchestra, USC School of Music 2 Comments
Tax dollars at the Columbia Museum of Art
The Columbia Museum of Art has been around since 1950 and on Main Street since 1998. City leaders often list it first when talking about downtown Columbia’s appeal. It gets some of its money from hospitality taxes, which are the two cents on the dollar you pay every time you eat in a Columbia restaurant. [...]
City lobbyists are safe, but arts groups are not