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

CSRA Elections

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

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

05/25/2026

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.

CSRA Politics

The Machine Will Serve Its Master

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

05/25/2026

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.

Crime

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

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

05/15/2026

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.

CSRA Elections

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

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

05/10/2026

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

CSRA Elections

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

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

05/04/2026

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.

Editorials

You Cannot Serve God and Wealth

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

04/18/2026

19th-century political cartoon showing Augusta’s political structure surviving after charter reform collapsed

CSRA Politics

The Charter Died. The Structure Remains.

Charter reform failed in Atlanta, but Augusta’s deeper political structure did not fail with it. The April 14 Commission meeting showed a government still organized

04/17/2026

A period-style editorial caricature of the article’s central argument: both parties contest the banner, while the structure beneath them keeps feeding capital and calling the result relief.

CSRA Elections

Tax Day in Augusta: What the Affordability Debate Refuses to See

Why the latest tax cuts feel small, why the pressure remains, and why race belongs in the center of the story rather than the margins

04/15/2026

Political cartoon illustrating Augusta charter review stalled process, Guest Op-Ed by Gayla Keesee League of Women Voters

CSRA Elections

Special Guest Op-Ed from Gayla Keesee of the League of Women Voters: Augusta’s Charter Effort Stalled — What Happened and Where We Go From Here

Guest Editorial by Galya Keesee, Ph.D. – Co-President, League of Women Voters of the CSRA Georgia lawmakers worked into the final hours of the legislative

04/07/2026

19th century political cartoon showing Augusta charter reform being destroyed by political interests at the Georgia General Assembly

CSRA Elections

🌺 UNDER THE AZALEAS 🌺 – Who Killed Augusta’s Charter? A Reform Effort Dies Under Political Pressure

by Simone Raines After months of work and a promise to keep politics out of the process, Augusta’s charter reform effort ended not with a

04/07/2026

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