Steven Uhles

1 week ago | augustatoday.com | Steven Uhles

Augusta Commissioner Alvin Mason announced his resignation during Tuesday’s Commission meeting, citing health issues. Mason, who was absent from Commission meetings for several months last year following back surgery, said that he felt a calling to step down and that his job on the Commission “had been done.”Mason, who was serving his third term as the District 4 Commissioner, had about 18 months left in his current term.

2 weeks ago | augustatoday.com | Steven Uhles

Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced that he has ordered the names of seven military installations changed – including Augusta’s own Fort Eisenhower. For those with a very short memory, the Fort Eisenhower moniker was adopted in 2023. Prior to that, it operated as Fort Gordon, its name honoring Confederate General and former Georgia Governor John Brown Gordon.

2 weeks ago | augustatoday.com | Steven Uhles

We started revving the engines on what would become Augusta Today about a year ago. Initially, with some degree of seriousness and a dash of mischief, I saddled this little-publication-that-couldwith the not-all-that-innocuous tag ‘Free and Easy.’ To my surprise, and joy, it sort of stuck. I liked that it succinctly described the ethos behind Augusta Today – a free publication that is easy to access and digest – as well as sounding ever-so-slightly naughty. Free and Easy felt...well, easy.

3 weeks ago | augustatoday.com | Steven Uhles

Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesAccording to Augusta Today Editor-in-Chief Steven Uhles, these are not the faces of the oppressed. In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that I am a white male. I have, in fact, been one my entire life. I’ve never identified as anything other than and, if I am being completely honest, I have probably leaned into both my racial and gender identity in exactly the ways people might expect – for better and worse.

4 weeks ago | augustatoday.com | Steven Uhles

Representatives from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office, including Sheriff Gino Brantley, met with downtown residents and business owners on Thursday, May 29 to discuss problems, perceptions, and possible solutions in terms of crime in the downtown area. Sheriff Brantley opened the meeting with a state-of-the-streets address, detailing some of the initiatives taken since he took office in January.