The Columbus Gov’t is offering gift cards in exchange for completed job applications, and is also requiring attendees to wear medical face masks during the event. Explore the full story for the details and see how CCG continues to embarrass itself on the world stage.

While the rest of the nation and the state of Georgia continued to increase their prosperity last year, poverty in the city of Columbus, Georgia increased to a ghastly 22% during 2022. Explore the full story to view our interactive chart and see how wide the divide has become.

While the mayor seems to understand the severity of the city’s poverty crisis, his plan to improve it has several major pitfalls. Here’s a look at how his approach could benefit from a slight change in his causal perspective by treating the causes instead of the symptoms.

Crumbling infrastructure, decades of known neglect, and further proof of a failed ‘tourism’ industry come together to show an exuberantly incompetent week for the Columbus Consolidated Government. Here’s your weekend look at all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

Holy Cow! When costs for the new government center’s SPLOST, additional building purchases, and new Muscogee County Jail are added up, the Columbus government is taxing its residents a whopping $743 million — or roughly $3,624 from each of the city’s roughly 205k residents. Explore the full story for the insanely expensive details.

Whoops! In an attempt to highlight ‘tourism’ in the Fountain City, Columbus State University forgot what city they live in and posted a photo of Columbus, Ohio instead. Explore the full story for the aMaZiNg details! Go Buckeyes?

After a shocking 22-year legal history, a consulting firm found the jail is physically and operationally dangerous once again. Deputy city manager Pam Hodge presented a plan favoring a rebuild of the entire facility at a cost of more than $250 million. Explore the details complete with photos of the jail’s current state of disrepair.

From government contract delays that challenge the city’s status-quo, to city officials’ newly-found love for audits, and even an airline proving failed local development, here’s your weekend look at all the muck that’s fit to print from the Columbus, Georgia area, along with a look at what to expect in the week ahead.

While local officials brag about ‘amazing’ tourism, American Airlines cited a lack of local flyers as their reason for leaving the city. Here’s why the airline’s bottom-line reality highlights the city’s delusional pipe dreams.

Forensic auditor Elizabeth Barfield was recently commended for her cornerstone role in the discovery of an $8 million theft of taxpayers’ money from the Columbus government. Explore the full story to see how she worked with the FBI to bring the criminal to justice.

In hopes of increasing government transparency, Columbus officials are urging all CCG employees to use the anonymous ‘Whistleblower Hotline’ to report fraud, waste, and abuse. Explore the full story to hear what officials had to say.

The city of Columbus, Georgia suffered through no less than seven shootings this weekend, from Jan. 6-8, 2023. Read on to explore our interactive map for the details, and please stay safe out there.

Rookie city councilor Joanne Cogle was sworn-in and began her duties as District 7’s legislative representative — and she wasted no time in proving her worth. Read on to see why Cogle should be on your radar.

What do ducks have to do with Phenix City officials using a poorly-designed survey riddled with biases to guide their planning of the city’s future? Read on and find out.

City officials will be meeting with a select group of invite-only business owners to discuss their individual special interests during a planned ‘bus tour’ through Columbus, though no open-call or notice was provided to the public for non-favored businesses to apply to participate. Officials mentioned several select businesses and owners by-name when discussing the event at a recent city council meeting.

As violence and murder continue to rise in Columbus, the city endured no less than four known shootings throughout the holiday weekend which left at least two dead and two others wounded. Here’s our interactive map with the details.

Despite federal law prohibiting governments from curating speech online, the Columbus Government deleted our comments that challenged their narrative and then banned us from commenting in the future. Here’s how we struck back and won.

In another attempt to put alcohol on ‘Pedal Pub’ vehicles downtown, city officials tried to justify how state law allows for the consumption of alcohol in a limousine while also admitting the vehicles aren’t legally limos. Here are the details.

With another horrific double-homicide on the Phenix City RiverWalk leading to an unsolved manhunt through downtown Columbus in broad daylight, locals notice a difference between their own violent reality and the words of city officials. Here’s why.

A former RiverCenter employee came forward in an exclusive interview to expose the discriminatory, unprofessional, abusive, and vindictive things going on at the RiverCenter, including alleged embezzlement. She says the public deserves to know. Here is her story.

The Civic Center’s ‘VIP Lounge’ turned out to be the Soviet-era knockoff version of whatever it was supposed to be. The project was intentionally over-hyped in a direct effort to mislead the public, according to Civic Center Director Rob Landers.

Residents will soon be able to receive free job training through Chattahoochee Valley Community College thanks to the city signing off on a new partnership between the Phenix City Library and CVCC.

The multimillion-dollar project hasn’t even been completed, though it is already covered in graffiti as downtown crime continues to outpace policing efforts.

With the half-baked idea for alcohol-based “entertainment districts” currently dead in the water, councilwoman Evelyn “Mimi” Woodson bad-mouthed a local church, used profanity, and spoke out of turn in several attempts to move her legacy-seeking legislation forward.

Attendance at this year’s Steeplechase at Callaway Gardens was noticeably low, with smaller crowds of attendees discussing the empty box seats amongst themselves. Shrinking social circles and smaller public support for the event’s beneficiaries may be to blame.

With just 37% of Columbus students reading at grade level and only 32% proficient in math, science says we shouldn’t be surprised when our crime and poverty rates continue to soar.

Here’s an itemized list of how the Columbus Consolidated Government says it wants to spend its second batch of nearly $40 million dollars in Covid relief funding received from the American Rescue Plan. The spending plan is almost twice the amount of money it has received.

Occasionally, local politicians get things right. After twenty years of suffering by thousands of local residents, city council voted unanimously to oppose giving the Continental Carbon Company more time to comply with federal regulations.

Columbus city councilwoman Evelyn “Mimi” Woodson tyrannically scolded Uptown CEO Ed Wolverton in front of the entire city, urging the public to take hostile action against the private organization until it complied with her personal political agenda.

While city council races to create an “entertainment district,” older and more experienced business owners are urging younger and more inexperienced ones to slow down and be more cautious. Read on to hear what they had to say.