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Walter Powell Jr. picks up police, fire endorsement

By Adam Beam | Published: March 8, 2010
Walter Powell Jr., a candidate for Columbia City Council district 4, will be endorsed today by the Columbia Firefighters Association and the newly-formed local chapter of the Southern States Police Benelovence Association. Powell sent out a news release early this morning announcing the endorsement, which will be officially announced during a 2 p.m. news conference today [...]
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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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Benjamin picks up police, firefighter endorsement

By Adam Beam | Published: February 24, 2010
Mayoral candidate Steve Benjamin picked up the endorsements today of the Columbia Firefighters Association and the Police Benevolent Association. Never heard of the PBA? That’s because they’re new, and endorsing Benjamin was their first official act. The Firefighters Association has been around for awhile, and they’ve been growing restless with City Council members because of budget cuts, [...]
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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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