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Columbus Health Commissioner To Retire

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published June 21, 2017 at 7:11 AM EDT
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Columbus Health Commissioner Doctor Teresa Long will retire at the end of the year. She became the city's first female health commissioner in 2002 after serving as an assistant and as Columbus medical director. No word on a successor.

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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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