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In a wide-ranging Facebook Live interview Tuesday with TV personality Rick “Don’t Go” Mason, Ward 4 Councilman Pierre Beard claimed he was being targeted by local law enforcement because of a grudge held by an ex-Columbus Police Department officer.

Columbus city councilman Pierre Beard has been arrested yet again — this time for drug possession. According to Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins, Beard was taken into custody on Monday after deputies went to the Ward 4 councilman’s home to serve a warrant to a familiar face in Quavis Betts...

Columbus City Councilman Pierre Beard spoke in public for the first time since his weekend arrest in Alabama.

Since Pierre Beard was first elected in 2019, the Ward 4 councilman has been a lot of things.

While allegedly driving intoxicated, without a tag on his car, in possession of weed and drug paraphernalia and with a man twice charged for robbery in the passenger seat, Pierre Beard allegedly tried to use his city council seat to leverage control over a law enforcement officer.

Golden Triangle Planning and Development District pitched its services to Columbus City Council during Thursday’s work session, offering to draw up a free assessment of the city’s needs.

When it comes to dreams, dream big, Darren Leach, executive director of the Memphis Town Community Action Group, told Columbus City Council during its Thursday work session.

“The (park renovation bond) is not dead,” Vice Mayor and Ward 2 Councilman Joseph Mickens told The Dispatch Tuesday afternoon. “I see it coming back up for another vote, and when it does I’m on board with it.”

Mayor Keith Gaskin broke a tie during a Friday morning special call meeting to kill an effort to sell about $3 million in revenue bonds intended for a $4.4 million parks renovation plan that would have mostly focused on improving Propst Park.

Columbus City Council voted Tuesday night to tap the brakes on its code enforcement remediation efforts while it sorts out which properties might fall under the auspices of its federally funded blight elimination program.