🌺 UNDER THE AZALEAS 🌺 – The Curious Urgency of Augusta’s 2026 Charter Vote
The new charter will pass eventually. So why abandon the process to force it onto the ballot now? By Simone Raines Why does it matter so much that Augusta’s revised charter appears on the 2026 ballot? Why has the Commission demonstrated such urgency—enough urgency, in fact, to discard the rules and procedures it established precisely […]
Denied, Delayed, Then Undercut: How Augusta Retaliated Against an Open Records Request
Garden City Gossip requested the Cherry Bekaert audit in January. The city refused. Weeks later, multiple outlets reported the document’s findings before the report was finally released. When public records are withheld from formal requests but circulate elsewhere, transparency starts to look optional. by Publisher Augusta, GA – Garden City Gossip asked Augusta for a […]