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Simple question, lots of answers

By Adam Beam | Published: March 2, 2010
Eight of the nine candidates for Columbia mayor attended a forum this morning at the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce. This is one of more than a dozen scheduled forums, and with nine candidates the forums are hard to keep up with. But today’s forum was especially hard to follow when it comes to the question [...]
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Audio clips from last week’s mayoral debate

By Adam Beam | Published: February 22, 2010
Last week, I wrote about a mayoral debate at the Capital Senior Center. My story mostly focused on how the candidates would pay for public safety, but the candidates touched on a number of other issues I didn’t have space to write about. On the city’s finances: Steve Benjamin Kirkman Finlay Steve Morrison On the proposed Main Street homeless center: Steve [...]
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Overtime at the police and fire departments

By Adam Beam | Published: February 19, 2010
Mayoral candidates Steve Benjamin and Kirkman Finlay disagree with each other on how the city should fund public safety — an argument that was on full display at last night’s debate at the Capital Senior Center. The argument, in a nutshell, is that Benjamin laments the budget cuts at the fire and police departments, while Finlay [...]
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Why district 4 is the ‘district of no’

By Adam Beam | Published: February 5, 2010
I’m working on a story for Sunday previewing the race for City Council district 4 (yes, there are other races going on besides the mayor’s race.) Specifically, I’m trying to write about the interesting trend of the district 4 council person usually voting “no.” Whether it’s Kirkman Finlay or Hamilton Osborne, more often than not the [...]
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Mayoral fundraising reports

By Adam Beam | Published: January 12, 2010
Mayoral candidates Kirkman Finlay, Steve Morrison and Sparkle Clark have turned in their fourth quarter fundraising reports, which were due Monday. I have posted them to the campaign disclosures page. Morrison raised $32,185 and Finlay raised $121,351.52. (Finlay actually reported $127,365.52, but $6,014 of it were “in kind” donations, not cash). Clark raised $553. Steve Benjamin has [...]
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