When it was announced this past week that Mack Taylor, an Evans attorney, had defeated his opponent, Martinez businessman Trip Derryberry, in the Columbia County Board of Commissioners’ District 3 race, many folks were stunned. After all, less than a month ago during the Nov. 4 election, Derryberry carried the night handily with nearly 41 […]
The campaign signs grew up like weeks once again in Columbia County, and now that crews are out harvesting the vacant lots and street corners, it’s time to see if there were any lessons to be learned. Stick ‘em In Early Wayne Bridges had his signs in the ground before qualifying and it seemed to […]
The thing that none of the seven candidates in Columbia County’s two remaining political races are saying is that if former tax commissioner Kay Allen hadn’t found herself in hot water over her dealings with Grovetown and Harlem, all of them would have spent this election on the sidelines. But the double whammy of the […]
At Tuesday night’s Columbia County Commission meeting, changes were made to the county’s facility rental agreement. The addendum, which will prohibit political signs and literature at functions or events that are not advertised as political events, comes as a result of the issue the [...]
Anyone who saw Columbia County District 3 commission candidate Trip Derryberry’s campaign banner hanging from the fence at Evans Town Center Park Saturday morning after the Montgomery Gentry concert might have gotten the impression that Columbia County was somehow endorsing Derryberry. Or that [...]
On March 19, Evans attorney Mack Taylor filed his Declaration of Intent (DOI) for the special election to fill the vacancy left by Charles Allen, who resigned along with his wife, Tax Commissioner Kay Allen, early last March. Initially, the field of potential candidates who filled out DOIs was [...]