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Skinner Road homeowners got a reprieve Tuesday when the Augusta Commission rejected a rezoning application for a Washington Road-area apartment complex.
Strategic planning may play into the 2022 budget process for the Augusta Commission.
How will Augusta redraw commission and school board district lines? The city's diverse population has led to challenges and federal court involvement.
Augusta Commissioner Ben Hasan waited to recuperate from a knee replacement before he got his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday and he believes there were others like him who were hanging back. "More of us need to take the vaccine," said Hasan, who wanted his shot to send that message. There are many in Richmond County who have yet to hear it. Augusta appears to trail most of the other metro areas in Georgia in getting people vaccinated as local providers say they are already having a hard time getting people to come to clinics and get the shots. The numbers might be a little mislea...
Joe Raedle/Getty Images Women of color made up 26.8% of all US hourly employees in 2020, Walmart said in a new report. Meanwhile, 74.5% of executives and 52.3% of hourly workers at Walmart are white. "We're investing in change," Ben Hasan, global chief of diversity and inclusion, said in a release. Women of color are doing much of Walmart's hourly work, yet are responsible for few executive-level decisions. Women of color — or workers who identify as Black, Asian, Latina, or Native —made up 26.8% of all US hourly employees, according to a new report. Peop...