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Behind the Billions: How Columbia County’s Data Center Tax Deal Works

A 35-year fiscal analysis projects $12.1 billion in net public revenue, but the forecast includes uncommitted future investment and relies on project assumptions supplied by

09/23/2026

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

Crime

If Augusta Is Christian, Let Its Government Prove It

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.

06/06/2026

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.

CSRA Politics

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

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

06/03/2026

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

CSRA Politics

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

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,

06/02/2026

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

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.

CSRA Elections

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

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

05/20/2026

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

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Lowcountry Municipal Judge Arrested, Suspended From Bench After Child Neglect Charge

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