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LINE 2,000 times with the same woman. Someone give me a good conduct medal.
There’s a new kind of discrimination sweeping the CSRA over the past couple of years. That discrimination holds back those with talent and intelligence. Let’s combine the two and create the portmanteau henceforth known as “talligence”. I hope you don’t have any talent and I hope you don’t have any intelligence because you will be discriminated against if you have “talligence”. Sic ‘em Lori!! I grew up in Augusta but am now living in Germany because of my job. I enjoy keeping up with what’s going on in my hometown, but I am saddened to see that not much has changed. The local politics seem to be as backward as I remember, maybe worse. Will things ever change? I was thinking of moving back one day, but now I am not so sure. Thunder Over Augusta is no longer held in Augusta. It should be called Thunder Over Evans. That, and with the advent of the Lady A Amphitheater, Augusta/Richmond better grab a pair compete more strongly or they will lose more events to our Columbia County neighbors. I have to say that Austin Rhodes’ columns in The Spirit have gotten much better. In fact they are “Austintatious”! The problem with Augusta is that there aren’t any smart women in its government. It’s all men who can’t even read what they are voting on. It would be great to have someone like Bonnie Ruben on the commission. She is brilliant and knows what is really going on in this town. Metro Spirit, you’ve lost your flavor. I used to think of you as an urban, underground style newspaper. You have gone all Columbia county on us! What happened to Tom Tomorrow? Did you remove it to appease your right wing Columbia county advertisers? And why are you using such small text? augusta is a hell of a town! i loove augusta. but entertainment pretty much suks here. what do we need to do to get more events and things to do? why not turn regency mall into a aquarium park like in atlanta or a zoo like in columbia? we need something to draw people here besides the masters. I think Austin Rhodes should give himself more credit for things.
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Are you people with SOA sure that you have the right architectural firm for the job of refurbing the Miller Theater? Just asking because the firm that has the job is the same one that oversaw the building of the 4th street jail
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We hear at the Metro Spirit love a good fake news story, whether it be courtesy of The Onion, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert or anyone else who happens to get in on the act. And while hollywoodandswine.com doesn’t come close to matching The Onion’s often pointed and smart commentary on our crazy world, it’s still nice to see that someone is taking the entertainment industry to task for some of its more serious offenses. Recent headlines, including “Three Dozen Fans Mourn as Kate Hudson’s Career Is Taken Off Life Support” and “After Discovering the Kardashians, Chinese Dissident Pleads Not to Be Sent to the U.S.,” had us cackling… they’re funny because they’re true (or, at least, they could be)! But what we’re most looking forward to is posting one of their stories on Facebook to see who in the comments section thinks it’s real.
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building. We all know what has happened to it. Problems so big it had to be abandoned and will be raised as soon as posible. Just Sayin. Somebody needs to investigate the choices you have made.
the cumulative IQ of the body would triple. If you want someone to keep an eye on how our tax dollars are being spent, there’s no better person for the job than Bonnie.
Why does Augusta “suck”? I submit: Lady Antebellum, Jo Dee Messina, and Yanni. Yanni? Seriously, c’mon man! When are Lawrence Welk, Liberace, and Zamfir - the master of the pan flute - going to show up? Where’s Boxcar Willie? I’ll slide down a slippery slide of razor blades into a pool of alcohol filled with flesh-eating piranha before I listen to that crap!
“Where were you last Pluterday?” Sure do miss you a lot RJ.
the boss hog cook out out in waynesboro this past saturday was great! everything but the cut rate sound company that is. the young man doing it was in over his head and rude to boot! hope they hire pros next year and that young man gets some good ole southern manners! The average pay of the top 10 U.S. CEO’s in 2011 was $52.13 million dollars. In 1980, CEO pay was 42 times that of the average worker. In 2011, CEO pay was 380 times that of the average worker. What part of the “corporate greed” picture don’t you understand? If you are at a drive thru restaurant and have a large order or take longer than 30 seconds to think about what you want, please go inside to place your order. It is called common courtesy, something most people of Augusta lack. You could use the extra exercise anyways. Hey Metro Spirit, can you run lists of places that want to build up their compost piles with food scraps? We can help save the landfill some more. Go, Lori, go! Don’t stop no matter how many idiots talk against you. Plenty of us need and appreciate your good work in saving Harrisburg and criticizing the lack of funding for police, etc. Please keep helping us!
It’s no wonder the local music scene is going downhill. There are too many bands who play way too often in town. If your band is playing downtown 3 weekends in a row then you are part of the problem. If your venue keeps having the same 5 bands in there every month then you are part of the problem. If you are a lazy booking person and you don’t respond to emails or calls then you are part of the problem. You want your band to stand out in Augusta? Hang posters, promote hard, and leave town every now and then. Well judging from some of the whines last week some people must feel mighty threatened by Lori Davis. So standing up against government waste, corruption and the good-ole-boy network that profits from it makes you a loudmouth? Seems to me these folks just fear a strong woman on the commission who won’t put up with their nonsense anymore. And it’s no surprise the “good-ole-boys” have resorted to subtly misogynist personal attacks; it just shows how desperate they are to cling on to power. What is that fetid, primordial gas exuding from the La Brea tar pits of Austin’s brain this week? The poor “controlling all elections” while paying little or no federal income tax, so should they pay a poll tax, is that it? The inequity is to be found in the way it bequeaths upon the wealthiest individuals and corporations needless tax breaks and ever lowering tax rates, allowing them to rain money on lobbyists who in turn forward it to the accepting memebers of Congress to craft laws favorable to them. Stop blaming the poor for the ills of the country!
I’d like to see Bonnie Ruben on the Augusta Commission. With her on there
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