Columbia's decision to ban former employee from its property may be 'unconstitutional' [Lancaster Watchdog]
Chris Vera [Columbia Spy file photo] The following information is excerpted from a December 6, 2025 LNP Watchdog article by LNP | LancasterOnline reporter Jade Campos. Still reeling from an abrupt firing from his role as head of the Columbia Market House in March, Chris Vera was surprised to get a letter in the mail from a Columbia Borough attorney two weeks later telling him he was banned indefinitely from borough property. The letter gave no reason for the ban. Nine months later, Vera, who has served as president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society for more than a decade and has helped with the borough’s comprehensive plan, is still banned from borough property. He believes the ban includes borough parks, which is part of the reason he moved his annual Albatwitch Day festival, which celebrates the myth of a local cryptid, to Wrightsville. Vera said he’s not sure why the borough went to such lengths to keep him away from public spaces given his termination from the borough s...
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" 'It's another tool to try to slow down traffic in your small boroughs. Why shouldn't they have the same tools the state police have,' council member Mary Barninger said. 'This (argument) that police departments will use this to increase revenues is ridiculous.' "
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Yeah right, tell me another story. And the $treet $weeper is for cleaning streets every week (at least), and not for giving out $10 tickets? And we need to increase meter prices again because there's no parking for the multitudes of stores in downtown Columbia?
But it's all ok - because it is "for the children". Excuse me while I vomit.
--FMB
(not always popular, but always honest)