Columbia elects first Black mayor in historic runoff
Voters in Columbia choose Steve Benjamin, a lawyer and lobbyist, as mayor in a runoff with 10,784 votes to 8,558 for Kirkman Finlay III. Benjamin will succeed Mayor Bob Cobb, ending two decades in office, and become the city’s first Black leader in its capital.
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Retired general to run unemployment agency
Gov. Mark Sanford taps retired Brig. Gen. John L. Finan to oversee South Carolina Workforce Department as caretaker through March 2011. Finan, 67, will implement the agency overhaul and bring budget discipline, after a 1993 retirement and later USC finance role.
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