If Augusta Is Christian, Let Its Government Prove It

Sepia political-cartoon engraving of Augusta choosing between a Babel-like civic machine and residents rebuilding public goods labeled drainage, dignity and accountability.

Milwaukee’s sewer socialists offer Augusta a lesson in public goods, but the city’s strongest organizing language may be Christian: dignity, repair and the common good.

Why I’m 🏳️‍🌈 Proud 🏳️‍⚧️ of My Church | Augusta Pride

GCG-style engraved illustration of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Augusta beneath a rainbow, with the article title “Why I’m Proud of My Church” and Pride colors including trans-community colors.

Garden City Gossip is proud to celebrate Augusta Pride. This personal editorial explains how Good Shepherd and The Episcopal Church helped teach that Christian love requires full dignity for LGBTQ+ neighbors.

Augusta’s Zoning Rewrite Can’t Just Make Development Easier. It Has To Make Neglect More Expensive.

19th-century political cartoon style image showing Augusta zoning, vacancy, speculation and public pressure for redevelopment.

Augusta is right to modernize its old zoning code. But if the rewrite only makes development easier without making long-term vacancy and neglect more expensive, the city will have mistaken procedure for reform.

🌺 UNDER THE AZALEAS 🌺 – The Gerontocracy Showed Up, and Augusta Got the Government It Rewards

Sepia political-cartoon engraving of older Richmond County homeowners controlling a turnout lever while workers prop up a crumbling Augusta government building.

Last week’s Richmond County electorate was older than the county itself, and that imbalance explains more than the results. It explains the budget, the property-tax fight, the charter failure, and why younger residents no longer believe voting changes the machine.

The Machine Will Serve Its Master

Sepia political-cartoon engraving of a Babel-like civic machine labeled wealth, power, delay and control processing Augusta residents while neighbors rebuild a common-good wall.

Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is also a warning about power. Augusta shows the local machinery: taxes, governance, wealth, labor, race, and public systems that serve the masters who built them.
Meta description: Pope Leo XIV warns that technology serves its builders. Augusta shows how power, money, race, labor, and government form one machine.

Johnson, Kendrick Head to Runoff as Wright Wins Contested Superior Court Rac

Illustrated Augusta election results graphic showing the Augusta Municipal Building, voters, ballot boxes for mayor, District 8 Commission and courts, with mayor and District 8 marked for June 16 runoff and courts marked decided.

Mayor Garnett Johnson led Augusta’s four-candidate mayoral race but fell short of a majority, sending him to a June 16 runoff against Steven Kendrick. Augusta voters also returned Superior Court Judge Ashley Wright and sent Commission District 8 to a runoff.

Atlanta’s $40M hotel-trafficking verdict should change Augusta’s motel strategy

Editorial illustration of a shabby motel corridor with an insurance notice pinned to the front desk, motel key tags, scattered papers, courthouse shadows, and a no vacancy sign.

Augusta needs a civil-accountability file strong enough to make repeat-risk properties, owners, operators and insurers answer harder questions.

Alito Broke the Voting Rights Act. Augusta Should Break the Racial Box.

Sepia political-cartoon engraving of Augusta voters walking past a broken racial district fortress toward a ballot box, with civic burdens labeled wages, housing, services and drainage.

The Supreme Court has turned Section 2 into a dead letter. Augusta should not respond by defending a 1996 racial-balance system that too often protected incumbents, deadlock, and managed division.

Augusta’s Mayor Race Has Four Candidates. It Still Has Not Produced Four Choices.

Sepia 19th-century political-cartoon engraving showing Augusta voters choosing among indirect routes toward city government, with a map and ballot-board metaphor.

Augusta’s four mayoral candidates are not identical. But the race still asks voters to translate broad promises into likely governing action — and then vote for the direction they most want the city to take.

You Cannot Serve God and Wealth

Political cartoon of a golden calf labeled wealth power resting on the tax code while workers bear the burden beneath it and Christ points toward justice.

A Tax Day debate about billionaires, refunds, and fairness misses the larger point: the American tax code is part of a political order that protects ownership, disciplines labor, and teaches the public to mistake small adjustments for structural change.

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