One of Tybee Island’s most famous residents. Or is he a former resident? Public tickets on sale on 8/5. Presale seats on 8/3. UPDATE 10/25: There is still one front row seat available for the $125 ticket price, and there…
Month: July 2011
And for tonight’s mindless entertainment . . .
. . . a 6-year old destroys her room in 40 seconds. WARNING: Some of you might find this disturbing rather than funny or cathartic. Anyone know the history of this? There’s a claim on the YouTube page that it’s…
Missing details in NPR’s coverage of military families with underwater mortgages
In one of my first posts on this blog — Homebuyer tax credits: A post mortem — I wrote about a particular military couple that had bought a home at too high a price who are now underwater on their…
Ben Sollee / Cheyenne Marie Mize / General Oglethorpe & the Panhandlers – Forsyth Park – 09/03/11
Well this is shaping up to be a great gig in Forsyth Park, right on the cusp of fall. From the Savannah Bicycle Campaign press release: Classically trained pop cellist Ben Sollee and his band will headline a concert at…
Larry Summers on the insufficient stimulus
A wonkish post. Ezra Klein with The Washington Post has a fascinating interview online with former treasury secretary Larry Summers. They talk about Keynes, regulation, financial crises, and politics. They also talk about the stimulus of early 2009. Summers says:…
Gus the bulldog really wants an indoor pool
Home prices leveling off — at least for now
Amidst all the strife over the debt ceiling, today’s Case-Shiller release sort of got lost in the news. As expected, the index for May (actually an average of March, April, and May) showed prices up about 1% compared to April,…
Will Savannah jump on the food truck bandwagon?
I’m sure I made some people mad with my column this morning in the SMN: Savannah suffers food-truck envy. On Facebook and in private conversations, I’ve been hearing again and again about how exciting food trucks would be in Savannah…
“Lord I want to thank you for my smokin’ hot wife”
Great prayer at a Nascar race in Nashville. “Thank you for the Dodges and the Toyotas . . . ” “Thank you for Sunoco racing fuel . . .” “In Jesus’ name, boogity, boogity, boogity . . .”
More on federal revenues as percent of GDP
A couple of days ago in a post about the debt ceiling debate, I pointed out that federal revenues as a percent of GDP are at their lowest level since 1950. Check out this interesting graph from this post at…
Chicago Fed index a good barometer of economic activity
There’s a lot of economic data that I follow that rarely makes it into my columns in the Savannah Morning News. That’s certainly true for the Chicago Fed National Activity Index, which I check monthly but rarely mention in print.…
Denver, Atlanta, trains, and taxes
I’ve been writing a lot lately about transportation issues. In today’s column, I follow up to last week’s column about the proposed new regional sales taxes to fund transportation infrastructure projects. That proposed 1% regional sales tax, which will is…
Debt problems weren’t a crisis, but will become one with default
President Obama – and presumably the Congressional Democrats that he thought he had on board – offered some big concessions last week in terms of the debt and deficits. No matter where they come from, $3 trillion in cuts including…
Regretting the end of Borders
In spring 1993, when I was living just outside Philadelphia, I quit a fulltime teaching job even though I had no clear plan what I would do next. I had saved a little money, so the next step really didn’t…