Summerville Porch Fest

Live music, local artists, and community vibes — all in one place.

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.

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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

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

19th century style political cartoon illustrating the fight over Augusta’s future in the May 2026 mayoral, judicial and commission races

CSRA Elections

Augusta’s May Election Is About More Than the Mayor’s Office

by Charles Rollins, Publisher Augusta’s May 19 nonpartisan election is broader and more consequential than a simple mayoral rematch. Alongside the four-way mayor’s race, voters

04/16/2026