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May 25, 2023
10:03 am | 4 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Yesterday morning in
Lake City, a group of representatives of North
Florida counties met for an hour to discuss the
idea of working together to form a regional
utility consortium. North Florida Professional
Services President Greg Bailey thought of and
organized the meeting.
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May 22, 2023 4:40
pm | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – On May 17, 2023, the
Columbia County Sherriff’s Office refused to
knock on a door and ask if they could “come in”
into a residence where babies, children, and
adults were at risk. The landlord said, "The
smell was so bad you could cut it with a knife
from 20ft. away, and flies were swarming around
the place."
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May 11, 2023 2:20
pm | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Yesterday morning, the
vestige of Columbia County's neutered Industrial
Development Authority (IDA), the now Economic
Development Advisory Board (EDAB), met for
another monthly meeting, which sometimes the
County holds – and sometimes, not.
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May 6, 2023
1:35 pm | 3 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – HCA's (Hospital
Corporation of America) Lake City Hospital, the
old LCMC, invested $36 mil in expanding its
emergency room. The addition adds 18 new private
emergency room beds.
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April 24, 2023
8:45 pm | 7 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Columbia County
recreation was front and center for
almost 2 hours last Thursday afternoon
at the County 5 (County Commission).
Years of County recreation flying by the
seat of its pants and ignoring waste,
fraud, and abuse floated to the surface
like flotsam and jetsam after a storm.
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April 21, 2023
06:15 am | 5 min read
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – On Tuesday
evening, April 18, the Columbia County 5
(the County Commission) and the Lake
City City Council sat down for the first
time in fourteen months to discuss the
Richardson Community Center. Ill
feelings between the County and the City
over the downtown Lake City community
center had been festering for some time.
The local community, about two hundred
strong, attended the joint meeting.
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April 8, 2023
10:35 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – This past Thursday
morning, April 6, the infamous Columbia
County 5 met to do the County’s
business. Hidden away on the morning’s
consent agenda was a secret attack
against the iconic – in the heart of the
Black Community – Richardson Community
Center (Richardson).
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March 27, 2023
12:59 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Paula Vann, Columbia
County’s Tourist Development Council Director
(TDC), is moving out of County government into
the corporate world. In 2014, Ms. Vann had a
shaky beginning, but her demeanor, good nature,
and education have helped turn Columbia County
into a sports tourism destination for the whole
Southeast.
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March 24, 2023
3:40 pm
LAKE CITY, FL – Monday’s City Council meeting
once again had the City pondering its
relationship with Columbia County, this time
about building ‘officialdom’: or, who is going
to inspect construction projects in Lake City.
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March 6, 2023
12:30 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Controversial Lake City
City Manager Paul Dyal appeared before the
County 5 (Commission) last Thursday morning to
do damage control after unilaterally canceling
an interlocal agreement between the City and
County without legal authority.
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Posted
February 28, 2023 6:00 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Chris Doolan has
been a household name in small county
governments for four decades. During the February 23, 2023, North
Central Florida Regional Planning Council
monthly meeting, after the elected and
appointed North Florida officials finished
their taxpayer-funded fried chicken dinners,
Mr. Doolan spoke about legislation affecting
small counties. Everyone listened.
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February 20, 2023 3:55
pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Beginning tomorrow
evening, February 21, and continuing on the
following two evenings, the Suwannee River
Water Management District will be meeting
and inviting the public to discuss updated
flood risk maps for the Santa Fe Watershed.
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Dumbing It
Down – Post Secondary Education – What’s That?
February 13, 2023
08:59 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The infamous Columbia
County 5 (County Commission or "The 5")
demonstrated its lack of regard for higher
education during its last meeting when it
unanimously removed the requirement of a
bachelor’s degree of any kind for the position
of County Economic Development Director.
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Posted Jan. 16,
2023 9:00 am
Originally Posted Jan 17, 2011, in a more
civilized time for LC
LAKE CITY, FL – In 2011, the MLK day
celebrations were a celebration of a life well
lived. Today, Lake City is a City with the
"Scarlet Letter." It has gone backwards in time.
Had the Columbia County/Lake City community
heeded the words of Reverend Joy L. Gallmon,
Reverend J. T. "Billy" Simon, and Dr. King, Lake
City/Columbia County would not be where it is
today.
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January 6, 2022
01:59 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Yesterday morning, the
County 5 reached an all-time new low in agenda
preparation and a new high in ways to disrespect
and mug the public. Richardson Community Center,
a bellwether of the Black community and a
historical marker of Columbia County, fell
victim to the chopping block of the infamous
Columbia County 5.
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North
Central FL Counties Meet To Discuss Forming a
Regional Utility Consortium. Greg Bailey, Pres.
of NFPS Thinks – The Time Is Right
