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Columbia is 'reeling'

By adam beam | Published: December 22, 2008
That’s according to this New York Times headline, which ran with a story in Sunday’s editions. The reporter, Peter S. Goodman, writes from the perspective that Columbia is “an ideal listening post” for the troubled economy and that it “came closer than any other to being a microcosm of the nation over the last decade.” The [...]
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A street name change (sort of)

By adam beam | Published: December 22, 2008
You should start seeing these signs on Farrow Road and Harden and Greene streets beginning in January. Columbia City Council approved the honorary renaming of the roads as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Honorary Boulevard. The “honorary” part means the street names won’t officially change, so you won’t have to send out a [...]
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Fresh faces

By adam beam | Published: December 5, 2008
Ever since Lisa Rolan, Columbia’s former chief financial officer, resigned last year, the city has been slowly rebuilding its accounting department. They have four new hires: Bill Ellis, a CPA, is the deputy finance director. He is second in command to Missy Caughman, the interim finance director. Ellis has been a fixture at City Council meetings, and [...]
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Trouble at Columbia's wastewater treatment plant

By adam beam | Published: December 4, 2008
DHEC and EPA officials are serving search warrants at Columbia’s wastewater treatment plant as part of a joint investigation involving records keeping, according to Thom Berry, spokesman for the Department of Health and Environmental Control. The officers have been there since 8 a.m. today. The road leading to the treatment plant is closed. City officials, including [...]
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Big timer

By adam beam | Published: December 4, 2008
Columbia Mayor Bob Coble is usually the last person to step out of a City Council meeting. But when President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team calls, you’ve got to take the call. The mayor stepped out of Wednesday’s meeting at noon to participate in a conference call with the transition team, along with about 75 other mayors [...]
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