From an explosion at a downtown recycling center shooting a fireball thousands of feet into the air as it shook houses throughout the city, to media outlets providing zero follow-up on the blast, to another fire at a separate waste management plant revealing a much larger chain of suspicious and timely events, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From CPD’s Family Fun Day highlighting the strength and unity of our city’s police force, to officials declaring the week leading up to 9/11 as Public Safety Week in honor of our nation’s first responders, to the Fountain City’s ‘Favorite Nephew’ having his crime reporting Facebook page temporarily shut by Big Tech, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From local elected officials praising each other for doing the bare minimum required after years of negligence left a man dead, to a local news outlet falsely claiming that homicides made up 40% of all deaths in Georgia, to our city’s police force exceeding recruitment goals after only a few months of solid leadership, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From two local Army veterans moving city policy to improve the lives of many, to city council hiring the nation’s premiere investigatory firm to audit a ‘series of events’ that have ‘surfaced concerns,’ to a relook at the city manager nepotistically providing opportunities for ‘like minded’ employees but not others, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From an Army Paratrooper being awarded one of our nation’s highest honors for saving four people in a downtown shooting, to city council removing a board member after exposing an illegal conflict of interest, to the treasurer of our city’s youth orchestra being listed as a ‘co-conspirator’ on Trump’s latest indictment, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the Interim Chief of Police presenting a solid plan to pay our city’s cops more, to a local man cleaning up graffiti on his own accord and setting the example for others to reclaim their neighborhoods, to a Sheriff’s Deputy teaming up with CPD & Fire/EMS to save a mother and child on the RiverWalk, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city not delivering annual business licenses despite it already being August, to the approval of $740K in ‘crime prevention’ grants that magically funneled $25K through the city manager’s personal home, to CCG forgetting to order emergency medical equipment for the new $50 million city hall complex, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city planning to demolish a family’s generational home to make way for a roundabout, to the Government Center’s $225 million replacement not having a project manager, to the city clandestinely using a property tax increase as collateral on the issuance of new Hospital Authority bonds, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city bailing out yet another failed housing project that can’t bring in enough revenue to maintain its own buildings, to a new top-down audit plan that places the city manager at the top of the list, to the downtown area still not having an effective maintenance plan after seven months of requests, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the mayor and city manager undermining city government by outsourcing efforts to a state-funded NGO, to the city bailing out a failed housing development project with a grant it isn’t even eligible for, to councilors calling out the shabby state of the downtown area to no avail, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From CCG suing itself for charging property taxes on public buildings it already owns, to the city settling a year-long case of racial and gender based discrimination for $600,000, to city councilors calling out the bureaucratic manipulation from city departments intended to undermine their vote, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city’s budget planning process nearly costing taxpayers $7 million, to the city suffering a homicide rate 4.5x the national average in the first half of the year, to Mill Creek containing 10x the EPA’s limit of E. Coli contamination, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From leaked documents proving the United Way is extorting the sexual data of local children from area nonprofits, to city council rolling back the property tax millage rate saving taxpayers $7 million, to the city wasting countless resources so 24 people can drive golf carts across Veterans Parkway, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city proposing a budget with a $14 million deficit, to the United Way still not being held accountable for extorting the sexual data of local children from area nonprofits, to the city attorney openly stating he wants to hide council agendas from the public so they ‘won’t know what‘s on it,’ here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From how to appeal your property valuation and fight back against the city’s proposed property tax increase, to how the United Way is forcing local non-profits to ask children about their sexuality or lose their funding, to a local teacher being named the Runner Up for Georgia Teacher of the Year, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city manager sneaking in a parking fee for a political event in a way that broke the Georgia Open Meetings Act, to more than six thousand pounds of garbage being left to accrue in city parks, to the city having the option to lower property taxes but proposing to tax you even more instead, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city having to spend millions from reserves to fight the crime they ignored for a decade, to officials voting in a parking fee for the GOP event but changing their minds in just 48 hours, to wasting countless man-hours and resources so 24 people can ride golf carts across Veterans Parkway, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city manager trying to block budget requests for our city’s law enforcement and courts, to CCG itself admitting the mayor did not have the power to appoint a police chief without council’s vote, to a local firefighter saving the day and becoming a bona fide hometown hero, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the Sheriff’s Office receiving an additional $1.5M to cover expenses, to the city ironically celebrating their ‘tourism success’ on the site of a recent double-shooting, to city council taking no action to hold the mayor accountable for his unilateral appointment of a police chief, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From our mayor unilaterally appointing a chief of police without first getting a legally-required vote of approval from city council, to city councilors voicing their outrage of the mayor’s tyrannical overreach, to officials finally saying it’s time to get serious about combating crime, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From our former police chief brazenly breaking the terms of his $400k severance contract, to a city councilor speaking up about how an assistant police chief was extorting the mayor, to a new interim chief finally being appointed four weeks after the mayor originally said he would, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From a city councilor receiving honors upon his retirement as a new councilor is sworn-in, to our city’s police force still not having an interim chief as the mayor appeases his own bullying, to a well-needed recap of the former chief’s severance agreement, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the Springer Opera House planning to allow children to attend an adult-only show, to a CPD assistant chief throwing a temper tantrum after she wasn’t selected to be the interim chief, to the Springer scrambling to hastily change course after our publications held them accountable, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From an officer of the Columbus Police Department telling the uncensored truth about our city’s violent crime, to the city manager openly stating he plans to misappropriate his position to influence a judge, to the mayor still failing to appoint an interim chief to our city’s police force, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From a generous severance package being offered to police chief Freddie Blackmon, to an outright extortionary counter offer contingent upon a frivolous discrimination claim, to the chief’s acceptance of his retirement enabling a brighter future for the department, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the city manager being exposed for having deep connections to an organization holding political protests against the city, to a local news outlet being caught trying to cover it up, to the city manager himself inadvertently admitting to funding the organization, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From a local extremist’s plot to illegally force the hands of our local elected officials, to racial division being purposefully used by our city manager to achieve unjust political ends, to our police chief playing the race card while simultaneously admitting his failures, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From the science behind why police leadership drives violent crime rates, to our police chief’s laughable plan to bribe his own officers, to a CPD command staff member being wrongfully removed from a council meeting and replaced with a race-driven political activist, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From our Mayor doubling-down on his failed years-long plan for public safety, to how his arrogance continues to cloud his judgment on the police dept’s leadership, to our Mayor turning his back on our police force through his absence, here’s all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

From our city manager’s fanning of racial division, to our mayor candidly seeking to silence the press, to how one man’s integrity had the strength to cut through it all, Here’s your weekend look at all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.