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City government is more transparent than ever, and there’s more we can do.
Everyone in Columbia deserves to have access to a more beautiful and vibrant city.
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With Mayor Benjamin, the city has improved city services without raising taxes.
Columbia has seen record high employment, and we’re continuing that trend.
We’re making Columbia safe by working with communities and strengthening our first response systems.
We’ve committed to having 100% renewable energy, which makes us safer and provides new jobs.
Learn about Steve Benjamin
Since being elected mayor in a record turnout election in April 2010, Mayor Steve Benjamin has made it his mission to create in Columbia the most talented, educated and entrepreneurial city in the Southeast.
His service in Columbia started back in 1990 when he served as student body president at the University of South Carolina, later becoming the Student Bar Association President at the USC School of Law.
Reelected by a 30 percent margin in November 2013, Mayor Benjamin’s administration has been characterized by his firm belief in Columbia’s potential and intense focus on job creation. In his first term alone, his leadership helped cut unemployment in the metro by roughly half and secured billions of dollars in new regional capital investment in the midst of a national recession.
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Free Times Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin has often found himself at or near the top of the list when Free Times puts out its annual Power…
The Charlotte Observer The fatal shootings of 11 Jewish men and women at a Pittsburgh synagogue in a hate-fueled attack in October brought back painful…
Cision PR Newswire WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Under the leadership of U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President, Columbia (SC) Mayor Steve Benjamin, the U.S.…