Tag Archives: North Columbia

Where was the opposition?

By Adam Beam | Published: February 5, 2010
In case you missed it, City Council members approved a special tax district last night by a 4-2 vote (as I had predicted earlier). But what was most surprising was the fact that no one spoke against the tax district. The State’s opinion pages have published several editorials and letters to the editor opposing the tax [...]
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Council members pitch their TIF

By adam beam | Published: July 22, 2009
Last night, City Council members Tameika Isaac Devine and Sam Davis made a pitch to the Richland County Council about a new special tax district (a tax increment finance district, or TIF) for North Columbia. You can read some background on this here and here. Here’s what they had to say: After their speeches, Devine and Davis offered [...]
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Dog owners want park in North Columbia

By adam beam | Published: April 22, 2009
Some North Columbia dog owners feel the area’s dog parks are too far away. So they’ve made their own dog park at the Earlewood park baseball fields. As city officials put it, this conflicts with the park’s more traditional uses (read: players stepping in dog poop.) To fix the problem, the dog owners have formed a [...]
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