Having failed spectacularly in yet another high profile investigation, the City of Columbia, S.C. Police Department (CPD) will now attempt to investigate itself.
According to The (Columbia, S.C.) State newspaper, the CPD will launch an “internal investigation” into its mishandling of the disappearance and alleged suicide of prominent State House lobbyist Tom Sponseller.
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Columbia Police Department Probing … Itself?
WTF, City of Columbia?
The City of Columbia, S.C. says it will begin enforcing anti-profanity ordinances within its city limits … as evidenced by the appearance of numerous anti-profanity signs at city parks.
WTF, right?
The city ordinances cited on the new signs are 14-91 (disorderly conduct) and 15-1 (rules of a park) – although these local regulations have yet to [...]
Columbia Courts Solar Firm
Columbia, S.C. Mayor Steve Benjamin traveled to San Jose, California last month to meet with a company that is reportedly considering the city as a possible location for a “major manufacturing facility,” multiple sources tell FITS.
Joining Benjamin on the trip was the city’s top economic development official, Jim Gambrell.
Originally, FITS was informed that Benjamin was [...]
Benjamin’s Transparency Doesn’t Extend To Budget
By FITSNews || City of Columbia, S.C. mayoral candidate Steve Benjamin has built much of his “hope and change”-themed campaign around the notion of government transparency, but some are beginning to wonder whether his promised “sunlight” will reach into what has become the city’s “heart of darkness” – its budget.
On the one hand, Benjamin has [...]
Capital City Councilman Busted For Tax Evasion
By FITSNews || City of Columbia (S.C.) Councilman E.W. Cromartie has agreed to plead guilty to federal income tax evasion, multiple local media outlets are reporting.
Cromartie – one of South Carolina’s legendary “poverty pimp” politicians – failed to pay more than $25,000 in taxes in 2004, and also made numerous “small cash deposits” in an [...]
Columbia SC “Famously Hot Air” Alert
There’s really only one thing “famously hot” about the metropolis of Columbia, South Carolina as far as we can tell, and that’s the town’s Tweet-a-Minute social butterfly and “destination marketer,” Mandi Engram.
In addition to her starring role in our founding editor’s overactive fantasy life, Engram’s job is to use social networking tools to promote a [...]
SC: Rewarding Incompetence (Again)
Just when you thought South Carolina’s state government had the market cornered when it comes to pouring money down the drain of incompetent government bureaucracies, along comes the City of Columbia with its own claim to taxpayer-funded infamy.
According to a report published Sunday by The State newspaper’s Adam Beam, Columbia’s city government awarded fat bonuses [...]
It Pays To Be The Only Game In Town
Over 8,000 people showed up for the grand opening of the University of South Carolina’s new baseball stadium this weekend – an event that the sports writers at La Socialista fawned over to the point of making our cheeks turn garnet.
Certainly, there can be no argument that South Carolina’s baseball team needed a new home.
In [...]
Loftis: SC’s Capital City Needs “Turnaround Specialist”
By Curtis Loftis
We all know the sad state of affairs concerning Columbia’s city government, so there is not much point of listing our shortfalls now. We also know that it is easier to moan and groan than to offer solutions.
So let me swim against the current, and suggest a reasonable, swift and sophisticated course of [...]
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THE REAL SMALL BIDNESS STANDS UP … AND OTHER RANDOM SMATTERINGS
FITSNews – August 27, 2008 – A week after the liberal, TV lawyer-led “S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce” told us that all Palmetto State small businesses needed to succeed was a “new government agency to lead them,” somebody who actually represents small businesses has [...]
