Sylvia Cooper

Fired Augusta Recreation Director Tom Beck is pursuing his lawsuit against the city.

What a travesty Deputy Administrator Bill Shanahan's and human resources' recreation department investigation has been!

The "whistle blowers" and Augusta officials call the recreation department probe by Bill Shanahan and other top incompetents in city government an investigation. Others call it a witch hunt.

Augusta Commission member Grady "Missile Toe" Smith who had his big toe amputated at University Hospital on Friday said he could be the poster boy for diabetes.

Move over, Freddie Sanders, and make room for another Republican candidate in the Richmond County sheriff race, former Deputy Mike Godownes.

Imagine coming into the city off Calhoun Expressway toward the merged university and seeing an attractive development  instead of a mostly vacant parking lot.

Local politics got shoved to the back burner when the Masters Tournament came to town. So I thought seriously about not writing City Ink this week.

Like Mark Twain's premature obituary, reports of Augusta attorney Freddie Sanders' political death were greatly exaggerated. Last week, I told you he was not going to run for sheriff.

Last week, Freddie Sanders came out with guns blazing, talking about being Richmond County's next law and order sheriff.

By now, most folks know that four candidates have announced they want to be Richmond County's next sheriff, and, it would appear, social-worker-in-chief.

The curtain fell on a big news week and rose an hour early today, ushering in daylight saving time, the beginning of Brain Awareness Week and the Ides of March on Wednesday.

Every time Augusta Commission goes behind closed doors I think the worst. I'm seldom wrong.

State Rep. Barbara Sims was persona non grata with members of the local delegation Friday when her bill that shifts the election date from November to July passed in the House.

Augusta commissioners needed some professional help and got it. So they kissed and made up and promised not to give each other the cold shoulder or fling insults ever again.

Mayor Deke Copenhaver wants the commission's Code of Conduct, so the public won't know just how much they hate each other.

All anybody is interested in talking about is the Super Bowl, so that's what we'll talk about.

The Augusta Commission District 3 race got more interesting last week, when both attorney Ed Enoch and Mary Fair Davis announced they’ll run for the seat.

No matter how bad your weekend has been, it can't compare with that of James Ryan Anderson, the man who drove his pickup onto the Sixth Street railroad bridge and jammed it into a trestle beam.

OK, you don't want to read about what we've been doing. You want to read about the GHSU/ASU merger and the downtown baseball stadium deal that's being worked out behind the scenes.

The movers and shakers are predicting Augusta will become a boomtown once Augusta State University and Geor­gia Health Sciences Uni­versity are joined into one institution of higher ...