Monthly Archives: May 2012

Paine Gets the Roundabout

Posted on May 10, 2012 by metrospirit

Unsafe Druid Parkstudied after a year of inaction By Eric Johnson A year agoPaineCollegedrafted an official letter requesting the closure ofDruid Park Ave. “We sent that letter a year ago to the mayor and copied the city administrator asking…

Representation Without Taxation

Posted on May 10, 2012 by metrospirit

Our cities, states and, yes, the country itself is being slowly controlled and governed more and more by citizens casting votes who themselves have no real skin in the game. Can you imagine allowing minority stake investors to control a company?…

Columbia County School System Falls Short

Posted on May 10, 2012 by metrospirit

Field Days Over in the land of plenty, the plenty seems to be getting stretched pretty thin in some places. School Superintendent Charles Nagal presented a budget that came up almost a million dollars short, and while he says…

Azziz in Paine

Posted on May 10, 2012 by metrospirit

Plant the Flag In a sporting show of neighborliness, PaineCollegewill celebrate its 130th Commencement Convocation on Sunday, May 13 by having GHSU President Dr. Ricardo Azziz give the Commencement and Convocation Address at the Bell Auditorium. Of course no one in…

Field Days

Posted on May 10, 2012 by metrospirit

Over in the land of plenty, the plenty seems to be getting stretched pretty thin in some places. School Superintendent Charles Nagle presented a budget that came up almost a million dollars short, and while he says he thinks his…

New Digs

Posted on May 10, 2012 by metrospirit

Late last week, developers Clay Boardman and Barry Storey released word that they received a tentative agreement from Augusta’s economic development organizations to relocate in a building to be built on the site of the former WJBF building on Reynolds…

Plant the Flag

Posted on May 10, 2012 by metrospirit

Of course no one in Augusta is more capable of giving such an important speech. Certainly no one wields as much power as Azziz. In what still seems like mere months (it’s actually closing in on two years since he…

Lefties Still All Wet on Waterboarding

Posted on May 3, 2012 by metrospirit

by Austin Rhodes The mysterious master spy in charge of the team that used controversial, aggressive interrogation tactics against captured foreign terrorists, until President Obama banned such, has written a book. Jose Rodriguez makes a solid case for his…

Because Jesus

Posted on May 3, 2012 by metrospirit

During my three years as a graduate student at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Brother Jethro was a fixture on campus, if only one day out of the academic year. See, our campus had an area of roughly…

Tenacious D is Back and Music Midtown is Gonna Rock

Posted on May 3, 2012 by metrospirit

By Matt Stone New bars in Augusta are good things. This week I checked out Bar West on Walton Way Extension. The bar is right next to Gold’s Gym. Personally, I love grabbing a beer after I work out.…