{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "slug": "columbia",
  "title": "Columbia",
  "canonical_url": "https://signalmeaning.com/signals/columbia/",
  "json_url": "https://signalmeaning.com/data/signals/columbia.json",
  "summary": "Local civic and community interest (municipal proposition result and local incident) driving searches for 'Columbia' in a regional context.",
  "why_now": "Clustering of separate stories (a narrow proposition result, a recovered-body incident, and a university press release) at the same time is driving the immediate spike for queries containing only 'Columbia'.",
  "evidence_summary": "Mixed local civic (proposition/election) and breaking incident coverage will drive regional searches for Columbia (city/municipality), producing a local-news attention spike; university governance item adds institution-related queries.",
  "caveat": "Signal Type: Local News / Civic Event",
  "collected_at": "Wed, 5 Aug 2026 01:40:00 -0700",
  "signal_type": "Local News / Civic Event",
  "score": 66.0,
  "score_field": "adjusted_score",
  "state": "PUBLISH",
  "evidence": [
    "Live updates: Columbia Proposition 1 passes with difference of just 85 votes - komu.com"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "‘Built with the community’: Columbia County cuts ribbon on first-ever hospital",
      "source": "WRDW",
      "url": "https://www.wrdw.com/2026/08/03/new-columbia-county-hospital-host-vip-debut-community-preview/"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "record_id": "202608051903_signal_Quality-7-columbia",
    "batch_id": "202608051903",
    "input_files": {
      "Quality": "202608051903_signal_Quality.txt",
      "Musk": "202608051903_signal_Musk.txt",
      "Kurzweil": "202608051858_signal_Kurzweil.txt",
      "Jobs": "202608051856_signal_Jobs.txt",
      "Buffett": "202608051855_signal_Buffett.txt",
      "Bezos": "202608051855_signal_Bezos.txt"
    }
  }
}