Sylvia Cooper

Stories by Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, June 15, 2013

City Ink: Amnesia rampant in Washington, not any better here

Nobody in Washington seems to know anything, and it's not much better on the local scene. They don't know anything either.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, June 8, 2013

City Ink: Concerns over gifts nothing new

The Augusta Commission created a subcommittee to revamp the ethics ordinance after censuring Grady Smith, Joe Jackson and Wayne Guilfoyle for doing business with the city.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Republicans try to avoid brawl

Those interested in the 12th Congressional District race are trying to keep it from becoming a bloody Republican ordeal.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, May 25, 2013

City Ink: Bowles ambivalent about running for Senate seat

Last week former Augusta Commission member Joe Bowles said he'd announce plans to run for the District 22 state Senate seat next year when sitting Sen. Hardie Davis officially announces he'll run ...
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, May 18, 2013

City Ink: Joe Bowles to run for Ga. Senate

Former Augusta Commission member Joe Bowles plans to run for the District 22 state Senate seat next year. He said Saturday he'll announce plans to run as an independent.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Saturday, May 4, 2013

City Ink: Project doesn't have much in common with Voyage of Discovery

City Administrator Fred Russell said recently that the mills project is a "big reach" but "you're not going to have a big step forward" without some risk.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, April 27, 2013

City Ink: Will Azziz ask for another impartial assessment?

We don't know whether GRU President Ricar­do Azziz was red-faced after being called out for using university resources for his niece's wedding. But we do know he was proactive, calling for a ...
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Commission rejects raise for longtime official

The next topic I’d like to explore also concerns raises, specifically some whopping ones the top docs at the Medical College of Georgia have received.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, April 6, 2013

City Ink: Spring brings Masters to Augusta

Each spring the swallows come back to Capi­strano; the buzzards come back to Hinck­ley, Ohio; and snow birds and Tiger watchers from all over the world come back to Augusta for the Masters ...
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Deke and Azziz: Where there's a mill, there's a way

A monumental plan for GRU; Robin Williams and Charles Walker get a prison visit and proof that Marion Williams hasn't changed.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, March 23, 2013

City Ink: Augusta is a city of inconsistency

Augusta is a city of incongruities. It's the Garden City but has a lot of funky smells. It has a Kroc Center close to a crack center. It has Arts in the Heart and the Soul Bar. It's a city on the ...
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, March 16, 2013

City Ink: Former ASU president doesn't mince words

In her parting letter to Dr. Ricardo Azziz, interim ASU President Shirley Strum Kenny minced no words critiquing his leadership of the two campuses he's supposed to be merging.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, March 9, 2013

City Ink: Results of censure still unclear

What was gained by the Augusta Commission's censure of Commissioners Wayne Guilfoyle, Joe Jackson and Grady Smith for violating the city code, I couldn't say. I could say it went on way too long.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, March 2, 2013

City Ink: Azziz, commission need ethics lesson

Just when you think you've seen it all, something - say, altered photos - comes along to prove you wrong.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013

City Ink: Smith's vote on raises upsets some

The McDonald's Coffee Club on Peach Or­chard Road is so upset over the big raises the Au­gusta Commission voted to give Richmond County Sher­iff Richard Roundtree and State Court ...
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013

City Ink: If a criminal had a hammer

State Sen. Bill Jackson took some ribbing last week for telling legislative colleagues that hammers and frying pans kill more people than some guns do.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013

City Ink: Nobody wins in commission's Stupor Bowl II

The Augusta Commis­sion's Stupor Bowl II took place Monday during commission committee meetings. Afterward, some usually long-winded commissioners said the meetings were lasting too long.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013

City Ink: The name game never stops

Now we have GRU, aka GRUsome; GRMC aka Grimace; CHOG; but no ASU.
By Sylvia Cooper

Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013

City Ink: Meeting full of surprises for French journalist

Claire Perez, a graduate of La Sorbonne in Paris, wrote her impressions of last week's Augusta Commission meeting.
By Sylvia Cooper
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Autopsy finds boy's drowning accidental

According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Jon Stevens, a second grade student from McBean Elementary School, "accidentally drowned" on April 13, while cleaning an in-ground pool off ...
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