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Franklin County Bans Non-Essential Travel To N.C., Miss. By Some Employees

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published April 27, 2016 at 6:25 AM EDT
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Franklin County Commission employees won't be traveling to North Carolina or Mississippi on official business anymore.  The Democratically-controlled commission voted Tuesday to ban all non-essential travel after both states recently passed laws that commission members say discriminate against members of the LGBT community.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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