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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: Richland County
Columbia’s census appeals
The State’s Noelle Phililps wrote an excellent article in today’s newspaper about how local governments are spending lots of money and hours trying to convince census officials that certain addresses exist. Noelle’s story mainly focused on Richland and Lexington counties, who are appealing a combined 13,000 addresses. Their appeals are due by Dec. 31. Columbia [...]
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He said, they said
Columbia Mayor Bob Coble and several Richland County officials appear to be having an argument via WIS. The fuss was prompted by this story, which detailed the frustrations of some firefighters over an EMS policy that will not allow city firefighters to drive county ambulances. (However, WIS did report on this issue last year.) County [...]
Labor Day changes for trash pickup in Richland County
Attention Richland County residents: Labor Day is going to mess with your trash collection schedule. No trash will be picked up on Monday, pushing everyone back a day. Monday’s routes will be picked up on Tuesday, Tuesday’s on Wednesday, etc. Also, the landfill and the Lower Richland drop off center will also be closed on [...]
City sees opportunity with broadband stimulus
Columbia, Richland County and Benedict College officials are meeting today to discuss how they can team up to go after $7.2 billion in stimulus money for broadband technology. Columbia is eyeing the money to help with its plan to install super-smart security cameras that can hear gunshots. It’s not the cameras that are expensive, it’s the [...]
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