The good news in Augusta politics this week is that another potential racial impasse over naming an Augusta public building seems to have been averted.
I thought all City Ink readers would realize Freddie Sanders' post-election comments about being rejected by his friends after he lost his bid for sheriff to Richard Roundtree were in jest.
After Tuesday’s election in which Richmond County Democrat sheriff candidate Richard Roundtree trounced his Republican rival, Freddie Sanders, Sanders said his phone stopped ringing.
Since all we've heard about for the past few months is election polls, I wanted to do one on local Augusta races and present the findings today, but everybody I called said they were voting along ...
Just in time for Halloween, the powers that be stuck the word "Augusta" on the end of Georgia Regents University, not as part of the official name, mind you, but for branding purposes.
Augusta leaders who want to keep "Augusta" in the name of the city's consolidated university are going public with a campaign to "Save the A" - and shoo the GRU.
The political circuit amped up last week in Augusta, with a rousing speech by Sheriff Ronnie Strength that got the old folks at the Committee for Good Government meeting on their feet.
The week in Augusta began with a campus protest and ended with the resignation of an MCG Health Inc. board member over the name of Augusta's soon-to-be merged university, Georgia Regents University.
Nothing in recent memory has riled folks up as much as the Board of Regents naming Augusta's consolidated universities Georgia Regents University, or GRU.
In the 2010-11 school year, three Richmond County high schools - Lucy C. Laney, T.W. Josey and Glenn Hills - began reform using a three-year federal School Improvement Grant.
