You can add a few million dollars more on top the growing pile of taxpayer cash that's being burned on a "Campus in Name Only." Seriously, people ... remember that scene in The Dark Knight where Heath Ledger's "Joker" sets fire to a mountain of money? Yeah ... that's Innovista. Or "Ineptovista,"
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Columbia Mayoral Race Taking “Gangsta Lean?”
On the surface, Columbia S.C. Mayor Bob Coble and challenger Steve Benjamin are having a spirited campaign of ideas in their race to lead South Carolina's capital city, a.k.a. "the face of the recession." They're talking about budgets ... and transparency ... and budgets that are transparent, which
Read story »Sources: Coble’s Team Leaked Benjamin Rumor
Frankly, we're more than a little bit shocked to discover that people care who the mayor of Columbia, S.C. is ... or who it might be in the future. Presiding over the excessively-concreted, sweaty armpit of the South - a city which just so happens to be running its second consecutive multi-million
Read story »Steve Benjamin Is In, People
As we first reported back in January, Columbia attorney Steve Benjamin is running for mayor of South Carolina's capital city. He hasn't officially announced his candidacy yet, but he's got at least three fundraisers on his schedule over the next few weeks - according to sources close to the former
Read story »“Rusty Gate” Rolls On
The seemingly interminable drama of S.C. Republican activist Rusty DePass rolled on yesterday as a source at his former real estate brokerage accused Columbia S.C. Mayor Bob Coble of pressuring the firm to fire DePass' for making racist comments on a social networking website last week. One of DePass'
Read story »“Memories” Of The Way They Were
In case anybody forgot who was aggressively pimping the "Hydrogen-based economy of the future" that S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell, Columbia Mayor Bob Coble and University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides have blown millions of our taxpayer dollars on, we'll give you a hint ... It starts
Read story »Harrell’s Hydrogen Dreams Evaporating
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell has staked his political reputation - and hundreds of millions of S.C. taxpayer dollars - on hydrogen fuel cell research. Along with Columbia Mayor Bob Coble and University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides, Harrell has been the prime pusher of this so-called
Read story »Mayor Bob Looking Like A Non-Candidate
If five-term Columbia (S.C.) Mayor Bob Coble is running for a sixth term, he's certainly not in any hurry to amass a political war chest. Ordinarily, that might be ho-hum news for a popular incumbent, but the City of Columbia's widely publicized financial problems have served to erode some of Coble's
Read story »SC Capital Becomes Face Of Recession
Greenville, S.C. has its bustling new city center and Charleston its historic charm, but Columbia's Main Street has become the sad face of the American recession, at least according to a piece that ran in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. It used to be that Columbia was - in the words of one
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