...bad idea. Those numbers cause deadlock and distrust. The whites are on guard and the blacks do not trust the white commissioners.So nothing gets done ? and Columbia County and North Augusta are loving it. All they have to do is improve the...

...post-consolidation era have enjoyed such widespread support across racial lines as Aitken has. Indeed, he is the first white commissioner elected to the majority-black district.District 1 encompasses the bulk of downtown, with Harrisburg, Sand...

...last meeting but probably won't be unless a motion to fire both is made by a black commissioner.A majority of white commissioners, dissatisfied with Sams, don't trust their black colleagues to actually vote to fire her or not to hire her...

...splitting votes by race Tuesday and grinding progress to a screeching halt. Black commissioners opposed, and white commissioners supported, having a professional company run the city golf course.Their loggerheads caused the management company...

...school board and legislature.The district, which became majority-black in the early 2000s, has elected a white commissioner and school board member since consolidation.Hall's map, which was awaited by parties on both sides of a federal...

...43 percent black and 54.26 percent black or mixed-race. The south Augusta district has been represented by a white commissioner and school board members since consolidation.Using the Georgia Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment...

...he said. "If it was six blacks, it would be wrong."He said the commission is imbalanced now with five white commissioners and a white/Asian commissioner, making the four-member black minority powerless.Williams might be best remembered...

...Aitken and Bill Fennoy are headed into a Dec. 4 runoff for the District 1 commission seat.Aitken, the first white commissioner to represent the majority-black District 1, received 3,310 votes, or 39.74 percent, to Fennoy's 2,491...

...its interests are ignored as the "gang of six" white commissioners pass actions without consulting their black colleagues...has been accused by Lockett of seeking the six white commissioners' support while ignoring the black commissioners...

...stated in the May 15 article covering the rally in front if the courthouse ("Event 'not a protest'") that "white commissioners representing a minority of Augustans were making decisions for the black majority."I would remind the good minister...