Yesterday Steve held a press conference calling on Columbia's city council to restore funding for local firefighters after the recent closing of two Columbia fire stations. 

“I opposed that decision because I believed, as I still believe, that you don’t balance the budget on the backs of our first responders,” Steve said. “You don’t play politics with firefighters’ lives.”

View press coverage of the event in our news section, and in the extended blog entry, you can check out the YouTube video from the event that was captured by Adam Beam of The State newspaper.