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Have Columbia city leaders been guilty of inaction on downtown crime?
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Do you have concerns about Flock cameras and civil liberties?
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Do you support UM System President Mun Choi's criticism of local officials on downtown crime?
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Do you think a new policy to address bullying will be impactful at Columbia Public Schools?
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Should the Columbia Police Department use the old IBM building for a new headquarters?
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Are you avoiding graduation crowds in Columbia this weekend?
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Should the Columbia City Council approve an ordinance to keep people off medians?
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Are Columbia city officials doing the right things to reduce violent crime?
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Should the City of Columbia be investigated for DEI-related policies?
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Did the dreary weather ruin your Memorial Day weekend?
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Should Columbia continue curbside recycling even though it's going to the landfill?
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Has gun violence changed the way you see Columbia?
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Should there be new limits on contributions to local political campaigns?
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The city should have some requirements for bars having trained licensed security and the city should help train them because there is no business that provides training.
The city should have some requirements for bars having trained licensed security and the city should help train them because there is no business that provides training.
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The training for security employees of private businesses is the responsibility of that business.
The training for security employees of private businesses is the responsibility of that business.
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Adam Schrader
Businesses can fund it themselves. Columbia has better things to spend their money on.
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Max
This would be the same as saying, the city should pay a doctors malpractice insurance. It is not the city's responsibility.
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Teachers should be allowed to use Critical Race Theory as another tool to help teach students US history.
Teachers should be allowed to use Critical Race Theory as another tool to help teach students US history.
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Andrew Patchell
Ignoring the impact of race and racism in history doesn't make it go away; it just makes you ignorant.
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Letitia DenHartog
I believe today's high school students can handle the information and, hopefully, it will affect their leadership for the future.
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Max
Todays high school students are the weakest, most self centered, most brain washed students ever. Most can't maintain a thought for more than ten seconds.
Holly Page Frazee
If you had a history class, you know how terrible the US treated other races and ethnicities. The only difference is a lot of things were left out, like the Oklahoma massacre. Of course it affected our laws & institutions. This is not a new concept.
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Teachers have been teaching US History without the use of Critical Race Theory and they can continue to teach without it.
Teachers have been teaching US History without the use of Critical Race Theory and they can continue to teach without it.
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Debra Riffle
This continual focus on race is taking us back to a segregated, dark, racist place. It needs to stop.
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Max
It's part of the Democratic plan to maintain hate and racism, thereby keeping the slaves on the welfare plantation. They don't mind putting white people on the plantation either, as long as they have a plantation, where hate and discontent can be maintained.
Marisa Hagler
We are teaching children they are oppressed or oppressors based solely on skin color. That is the definition of racism. This country is going backwards with CRT and promoting hate and racism against white people mind blowing madness!
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They need to quit enabling homelessness. It has just become another welfare program.
ReplyI think the community needs to step up and help the homeless. When are all of you going to realize the Government is not going to fix your/our problems. They have created the majority of the problems we face today.
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