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BREAKING: Sean Miller is currently in Hall’s Chophouse with
@UofSC
officials.
@Mike_Uva
is on scene. Waiting for him to confirm.
#WelcomeHome
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🐶 Scoop— the former “Pizza Joint” on Forest Drive has been bought by the popular Charleston staple “Taco Boy.” 🌮 More info to come.
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I’m here to tell you that Palmetto Pig ain’t going nowhere, per the owner. Now, I need a nap.
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🏈 Scoop: Due to incoming Cat-4 Hurricane Ian,
@GamecockFB
will host
@SCSTATE1896
this Thursday, 9/29 in Williams Brice Stadium.
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A
@FivePointsSC
stable, Andy’s Deli, had to close for 6 days last week due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Go have yourself an Andy’s Special this week and help one of
@CityofColumbia
’s best family-owned restaurants bounce back.
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🧵 Columbia local five star ⭐️ recruit GG Jackson (
@_ggjackson
) will decommit from UNC as soon as next week. (1/6)
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🚨 🚨 GREENVILLE, SC MISSING PERSON. Payttan was last seen in Five Forks area LAST NIGHT (02/11) after the Super Bowl. Please immediately SHARE with your GVL friends/family. Let’s get Payttan HOME.
@GreenvilleNews
@greenville
@wyffnews4
@thetopstoryWYFF
🚨 🚨
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Days like today are a reminder of how Columbia is a great town to call home. Gamecocks night game. Soda city on Main is packed. SEC nation on the Horseshoe. Beautiful weather. A sleigh of great restaurants & breweries are open down the street. 🙏
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I hope Publick House sees this
Chicken wing prices have now dropped to below their pre-pandemic levels.
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Let’s call it what it is: gang violence in our shopping mall. We need solutions.
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Today’s the day. Let’s welcome
@_ggjackson
home to
@GamecockMBB
! 🧵👇🏽
🧵 Columbia local five star ⭐️ recruit GG Jackson (
@_ggjackson
) will decommit from UNC as soon as next week. (1/6)
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It is *my pleasure* to announce that
@ChickfilA5Pts
indoor seating is OPEN for the first time in over 19 months.
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The new Midas store on Gervais Street looks terrific. Before & after:
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Must be the last Wednesday Night Jake’s of the year.
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It’s true—Rockaways on Rosewood—is closing. Likely this weekend or next.
The good news—a restauranteur family (hint:🦎) is expected to buy the 40 year Cola staple and bring it back to glory.
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How nice is it to have a head ball coach who (1) loves Columbia, (2) wants to be here, and (3) is working to our town better?!
Reason
#1
,894 that I love Columbia , SC….The constant concerts that come to town
Awesome job tonight
@Imaginedragons
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City of Cola being like: “nah forget the river, we’ve got a spooky old mental hospital in a rough area of town that needs to be developed!” 🤡
I wish the
@CityofColumbia
would utilize the Congaree river like other cities utilize their rivers! There is so much untapped potential with it!
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🚨 50+ Emergency vehicles at Columbiana Mall. Sources reporting that shots were fired. Join me in saying a prayer for our community right now. 🚨
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🚨 🐶 🚨 A Greek-fusion restaurant is coming to the old Yesterday’s in
@FivePointsSC
with a rooftop bar.
#FivePointsIsBack
#SorryHarpo
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Recap: GG is decommiting from
@UNC
.
@GamecockMBB
&
@GamecockWBB
are giving him the hard sell to stay home and build a powerhouse in Columbia, & significant NIL deals are already in place. Let’s show him just how easy of a choice this is!
#WeWantGG
(6/6) 🧵
#803
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Should I buy this & give free rides to Williams Brice on Saturdays? Police escort included. 🐶 x 🐔
#WatchDogExpress
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I have a feeling that the new Peebles Wings location in the
@VistaColumbiaSC
is going to be the new spot. Opening day is tomorrow, 2/8/22!
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As we complete the first full week of 2022, I want to thank those of you who love
@columbiasc
as much as I do. To show my appreciation to all of you, I’m giving away a $250 gift card to
@hallscolumbia
🥩 to one follower who retweets this by 1/10/22 at 10 am. Cheers!
Tomorrow is the First Friday of the year, which calls for a Watchdog Giveaway. I’ll be giving away a gift card to one of Columbia’s finest restaurants. Any guesses? Announcing how to enter and win tomorrow at 10 am.
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I’m guaranteeing a
@GamecockFB
victory tomorrow in light of that fact that I just witnessed several
@GeorgiaStateFB
coaches & players eating a late lunch at Palmetto Pig.
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I just made a reservation for the Jackson family at
@hallscolumbia
tonight. Huge day for Gamecock Nation. Let’s welcome
@_ggjackson
home at 3pm!
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🚨 Inbox: My wife just got called in to work at Richland hospital for “mass casualty event”. 13 people shot is what she heard. Just FYI. 🚨
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🚨 UPDATE 🚨 9:40 AM - Paige has been FOUND. THANK YOU ALL!
🚨 MISSING CHILD 🚨 in Cayce. Last seen around 6:30 pm around Charlotte Street & Julius Felder Street in a pink blanket. Female, 12 years old. Please RT and share. Let’s get this child home in this cold night.
@CaycePD
@CityofCayce
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Chinese spy balloon hovering over Cola, likely trying to find me.
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I love this. Our
@CityofColumbia
sanitation workers keep our capital city clean and safe everyday—and they do it with a smile. They should be in every parade.
Something small I noticed today. Being from Boston I’ve seen plenty of championship parades but I’ve never seen a trash truck in one before. Don’t know the specific reasons why they were in it but seeing the pure joy on their faces while driving down Main Street was awesome.
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Going to Burger King on North Main feels like a Grand Theft Auto mission
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Heartbreaking to continue to see so many people of our city on the streets during Christmas time, in the cold. We must do better.
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Just drove a visitor around Cola. We passed dozens of mentally-ill, homeless individuals in
@FivePointsSC
, on Main Street, and in
@VistaColumbiaSC
. I wasn’t sure what to say—but I know this—we *must* get these folks long-term care and off our streets to move Cola forward.
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Historic win for
@Rickenmann
last night. In
@CityofColumbia
history, no one has ever beat
@BarackObama
,
@WhipClyburn
,
@harrisonjaime
, and Tameika in one night.
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Happy Friday—
@BierkellerCola
is opening a brewery and restaurant at Canalside Plaza overlooking the canal & Congaree River.
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Just saw a guy walking down Assembly Street drinking a tall boy Coors Light through a straw. Wednesdays, man.
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Source also confirms
@GamecockMBB
has lined up a lucrative NIL package which UNC is unable to compete with. B/c state NIL law has been paused by the budget proviso, the
@uofsc
athletic department can assist w/ facilitating NIL opportunities, and are actively doing so with GG.
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It’s absolutely unacceptable that over a dozen precincts are down this morning in the
@CityofColumbia
runoff election. 1/
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Holy smokes I love twitter so much
Next time, you probably shouldn’t cheat w/and marry the babysitter. How’s that for disrespecting black women? And since you know so much about MIA…maybe you can tell the people of SC why you were MIA when the SCGOP gerrymandered your House members out of their own districts.
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Source close to Jackson’s family confirms
@CoachLParis
,
@dawnstaley
, & Cola legend
@_ajawilson22
have engaged the family about GG being the linchpin local recruit for USC to build a men’s basketball dynasty. (4/6)
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Backstreets on Devine is raising the bar in the sports bar game in Cola . . . Addition expected to be completed by UGA weekend 👀
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I’m not sure if that was another quake or if Muschamp is back in town visiting and accidentally dropped his wallet full of all the cash
@UofSC
paid him
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Spring has sprung in Cola. Even
@Harpootlian4SC
couldn’t kill the immaculate vibes right now in
@FivePointsSC
.
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🚨 MISSING CHILD 🚨 in Cayce. Last seen around 6:30 pm around Charlotte Street & Julius Felder Street in a pink blanket. Female, 12 years old. Please RT and share. Let’s get this child home in this cold night.
@CaycePD
@CityofCayce
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Gov. Gavin Newsome, who governs a state 2,000 miles away from SC, is on a speaking tour of SC today. Hitting all the hot spots where D’s running for president visit. Orangeburg, Bamberg, Allendale.
Nothing weird about that, is there? Very normal. After all, Biden is running !
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Can you guys just cover Columbia’s gang violence problem instead?
What’s an ingredient that spoils an entire dish for you if it’s included?
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I’d pay for
@wis10
if y’all would cover Columbia’s problem with gang violence, and call it what it is.
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Big development for South Main Street. Bike lanes, a smoother road, and improved foliage is OTW — from Immaculate Consumption to Corner Blend.
Today we broke ground on a 24 million project to make S. Main Street more walkable & bikeable.
#HouseDistrict72
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Sorry about the earthquake last night in Cola. I dropped my weights after crushing a new deadlifting PR. My apologies.
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Columbia’s very own, former mayor
@SteveBenjaminSC
, is DC-bound to serve
@POTUS
as a senior advisor & director of office of public engagement
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Big if true
Hearing a report from a source in the Football Ops building that former President Donald Trump will be in attendance at the Palmetto Bowl. As Nikki Haley is his prime competition, President Trump will be an honorary Gamecock to spite Haley’s alma mater.
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Sorry about that earthquake downtown. I dropped too much knowledge on twitter
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.
@Rickenmann
is your next mayor of
@CityofColumbia
! 99% reporting with a 6point lead. Let’s GO!
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Happy Friday to all of those who are committed to making Columbia the best city to live in all of South Carolina.
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High crime, high taxes, lots of homelessness, corruption, a school called USC, and now earthquakes. You’d think we moved to California
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Snocalypse 2022 has begun in downtown Columbia. Act accordingly!
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Columbia leaders need to have a serious conversation about all the “escorts” on “dates” in Hall’s any night of the week.
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Mall shooter granted bond—but don’t worry—he has to wear an ankle monitor. What a joke.
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Now do
@UofSC
. 19 positive cases out of 35,000 students.
Masks are no longer required in Columbia amid encouraging COVID-19 numbers.
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Corner of College and Main Street. What would you like to see here?
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Columbia is buzzing tonight. Beautiful & busy. Reply with a picture of how you’re enjoying
@columbiasc
tonight!
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State House Minority leader Todd Rutherford representing the Cola mall shooter. Nice,
@scdp
@SCHouseDems
Man arrested in connection with Columbiana Centre shooting given $25,000 bond
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The “Free Palestine” scum has arrived at the State House.
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.
@AveryGWilks
continues to cover
@RichlandOne
fiercely and truthfully. Wish we had more journalists like him.
NEW: In a fiery meeting last night, the leader of Richland One's school board accused fellow board members of lying to the public and championed a proposal to dictate how they can speak to media.
She also made erroneous claims about how free speech works.
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Tomorrow is the First Friday of the year, which calls for a Watchdog Giveaway. I’ll be giving away a gift card to one of Columbia’s finest restaurants. Any guesses? Announcing how to enter and win tomorrow at 10 am.
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Cheslie Kryst was a light to the Columbia area as a
@UofSC
track star turned lawyer turned Miss USA. She made her mark on the Columbia community, for which we are thankful. May she Rest In Peace.
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3 men decided to bring guns to the mall to confront each other. Columbia has a gang & gun problem.
Prosecutors: Marquis Robinson and Amari Smith arrived at mall together. Says video shows Lewayne Price walking toward Robinson and Smith in crowded corridor, all three men drawing guns and firing at each other.
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Raising Cane’s & Cheesecake Factory. Luckily, I’m working on bringing both to the 29201.
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@MiaforSC
I’m calling on
@JoeCunninghamSC
to release his divorce filings to unearth whether he, too, cheated with the babysitter.
#scpol
deserves to know.
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I recommend avoiding
@hallscolumbia
tonight at all costs for two reasons: (1) Sean Miller won’t be there; and (2) because today is the last day of legislative session, it will be grifter HQ.
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By a show of hands, who’s down for a snowball fight at the statehouse tomorrow? 🤚
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This is exciting for Cola &
@FivePointsSC
. We need more than just college bars down in the village. Looking forward to trying it soon.
@colamayor
begins the grand opening ceremony for Jack Brown’s with welcoming remarks.
#WeAreOpen
#WeAreColumbia
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The homeless problem on Elmwood & Assembly continues to intensify. Dozens.
I know the City is on it.
I know the short term housing plan is up & running.
I know there are plans, plans, plans to get these people help & clean up the streets—but the problem continues to grow.
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Dawn giving all the glory to God. Love to see it. She represents Cola so well!
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Having a
@HammondSchool
sticker on your car in cola is like wearing a members only jacket in the 80s
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Twitter is asking me if I want to be
@verified
. My answer is no. I belong with the people, not the blue checks.
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At last, the Cinnamon Roll Deli dining room is open. No more Covid fear, cinnamon rolls only.
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Parking on
@mainstcolasc
is an absolute disaster tonight and I couldn’t be more happy about it. Cola is open for business.
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