Tag Archives: Steve Morrison

Dueling forums

If you’re tired of all the mayoral forums (there are five scheduled for this week alone), then you might try the “Silenced Majority Forum” tonight outside of the USC Law School. Why? Because this forum will have a magician. And Aaron Johnson’s campaign manager will be drawing caricatures of people, carnival style. Johnson is protesting the official forum, [...]
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Simple question, lots of answers

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

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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‘State of the City’ odds and ends

After Mayor Bob Coble’s “State of the City” speech last night, I tried to wrangle some of the mayoral candidates for comment. It was easier said than done because they were all feverishly working the room. That was especially true for Steve Benjamin. As I waited to talk with him, his spokesman took pity on me, [...]
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Steve Morrison’s newspaper

Mayoral candidate Steve Morrison has a newspaper, appropriately titled “Morrison for Columbia.” It’s 12 pages and it showed up in my mailbox last week. It includes articles such as “Morrison Seeks Mayor’s Job” and “A Community of Justice for Columbia.” Inside includes some college yearbook photos of Morrison, and some pictures of him and his wife [...]
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