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Marion County Commissioner Kathy Bryant said she thinks it s an incredible opportunity for Woods. Bryant said Woods would be able to bring valuable insight to the community on what s happening at the border. She wishes she could be part of the delegation.
Marion Commission Chairman Jeff Gold said Woods budget presentation day was changed to allow for the trip. Gold said if Woods feels it s important to go to the border, then that s fine.
However, the commissioner said, we ve got problems here locally. Gold said that the Marion County Sheriff s Office is short on deputies for patrol and detention deputies for the Marion County Jail.
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Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods is expected to be among the law enforcement officials joining U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Gainesville) on a trip to the U.S./Mexican border this week to learn more about the border crisis.
Ocala Police Chief Mike Balken is also going on the journey, he said on Tuesday.
Adeline Sandridge, communications director for Cammack s office, confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Woods and Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood were two of the four people making the flight to Texas. Sandridge said she s waiting on word from some others. No one from Alachua County is scheduled to make the trip.
The number of murders dropped from 31 in 2019 to 19 in 2020. Robbery dropped from 211 to 136, and rape declined from 227 to 184.
Meanwhile, larceny cases dropped from 4,947 to 4,289, motor vehicle thefts dipped from 696 to 582 and burglary dropped from 1,198 to 1,141. Overall, there were 7,569 major offenses in 2020, down from 8,397 the year prior.
The law enforcement agencies that primarily handle those types of crimes – the Marion County Sheriff s Office and the Ocala, Belleview and Dunnellon police departments –have reported more than a 40 percent clearance rate in solving these crimes, according to the FDLE report.
The pandemic did not have a similar effect on deaths related to motor vehicle crashes. As the Star-Banner has previously reported, that number actually went up in Marion, from 96 in 2019 to 110 in 2020. Law officers blamed distracted driving and excessive risk taking, even though traffic volume was lighter during the first months of the pandemic.
So, I was literally working on my latest Insights piece yesterday late morning when I got the alert: Mike Krzyzewski was planning on retiring as Duke’s mens basketball coach after the 2021-22 season. I knew right away that the piece I was working on at the time would be getting shelved and I would be back to writing about how basketball correlates to private companies.
For those of you who have lived or even spent any time in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, you know that the Triangle has been the epicenter of college basketball for at least the past 40-50 years. There are 3 schools—North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Duke University—all within 25 minutes of one another who each have rich college basketball traditions. A lot of it is down to the coaches… NC State with Everett Case, Norm Sloan and Jim Valvano; North Carolina with Frank McGuire, Dean Smith and Roy Williams; Duke with Vic Bubas, Bucky Waters