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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.
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 vote—but with interference. The collapse in the Georgia General Assembly leaves Richmond County exactly where it started—and makes clear that the failure was…
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…
🌺 UNDER THE AZALEAS 🌺 Notes from Inside Augusta’s Political Garden A New Column for The Garden City Gossip From the Publisher Beginning today, The Garden City Gossip introduces a new periodic column, Under the Azaleas, written under the byline Simone Raines. Simone Raines is a pseudonym used by…
Notes from Inside Augusta’s Political Garden Wait, wait, wait, I thought we were keeping politics out of this… By Simone Raines Augusta, GA – If the investigative piece establishes what happened, this is about understanding what it means—and why it should concern anyone paying close attention to…
