Monthly Archives: February 2012

River Glen Homicides: Same Dance, Different Day

by Austin Rhodes Note from the Writer Last week on my radio show as I wrapped up a discussion on the River Glen Apartments’ third homicide in just a few months, I respectfully proposed that as soon as our black political leaders decided
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Grammy Awards Recap: Founded Outrage and Artificial Patterns

It’s been a couple of weeks since the 2012 Grammy Awards have come and gone. I had an initially strong reaction to the show, but I was also just coming down from a euphoria induced by the combination of ice-fishing,
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Hand Out

The jockeying surrounding the race to fill Bobby Christine’s chief magistrate position in Columbia County is starting to get interesting. Had Christine decided he wanted to run for the job, everybody would still be talking about Magnolia Trace. But Christine,
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The Combo

Georgia Health Sciences University (GHSU) President Ricardo Azziz and Augusta State University (ASU) President Bill Bloodworth came before the commission to give then an update on just how things have been going lately. It was fairly open-ended mission, so it
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Foul Air

When you’re Barry White and you’re sandwiched between Lori Davis and Al Gray like he was on the last commission meeting’s agenda, discretion is definitely the better part of valor. By not being there while Davis and Gray did their
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Sheriff Strength Between a Rock and a Hard Place

by Austin Rhodes I made the prediction in this space a few months ago that I believe Richmond County Sheriff Ronnie Strength would go against the conventional wisdom and take four more years as the city’s top cop. While that
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Allegory of the Frozen Lake

Bear with me…   2/10/2012 I’m writing this from a Starbucks in Plover, Wisconsin, about 90 minutes northwest of Madison, where I now live. My fiancée and I are heading up to spend the weekend with some generous, employed friends
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TEE it Up!

In case anybody missed it, the TEE Center parking deck has been in the news a lot lately, especially since the Land Bank option caught everyone a little flat-footed. Face it — it’s the story that won’t die. No matter
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Lady A Floundering?

As the TEE Center works its way towards completion in Richmond County, Columbia County’s latest big project, the Lady A Amphitheater, is finally completed. Now comes the hard part. Booking the thing. Word is the management and decision-making apparatus have
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It’s Only a Problem Now

Hugo Diaz’s guilty plea Tuesday for “harboring an illegal alien” will ultimately send the Mexican national back home once his sentence is completed. Insiders in law enforcement find the uproar surrounding the case amusing, however. As the building boom hit
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