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 ...

Today is the day Janus, the mythological Ro­man god with two heads facing opposite directions, would usually look back on the old year in Augusta and make his predictions for the new year.

Christmas is Christmas and we've got to draw the line somewhere.

What do many Augusta commissioners say they'd like to have for Christmas if they could have anything they want politically?

The thing about politics is just when it starts to get boring, something unexpected always happens.

For about three hours Monday it looked as though the ad hoc committee working to redistrict the Augusta Commission and the Richmond County School Board couldn't and wouldn't agree on a plan.

City Hall was closed for Thanksgiving and nothing much was cooking around Augusta but turkey and dressing.

Life in the fast lane is not as glamorous as you might think. Ernie had quadruple bypass surgery last week. And that's easier said than done.

Ernie failed his stress test something awful. And all our plans changed, including the one I had for this column.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. So what if that’s not an original beginning? It’s still a fair description of the latest goings on in Augusta.

When Augusta commissioners approved a $12 million parking deck across from the Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center, they thought they were getting a treat.

Fred Russell gave commissioners a scary 2012 budget proposal with a $7.39 million shortfall and looming specters of a property-tax increase or skeletal city services.

The top echelon in the Augusta Fire Department started falling like dominoes last week.

I’m going into my 22nd year here and I’ve pretty much seen it all too. But not quite because, for one thing, so much of it has gone on and still goes on behind closed doors.

After months of high drama in the political theater of the Augusta Commission, there seems to be an interlude.