We love lists. And Travel and Leisure knows we love lists. So while you’re looking at the T&L website to try to find the winners of its 2011 World’s Best Awards, you can vote for Savannah, or one of 34…
It takes a lot to stun me these days, but I’m stunned by the scale of the cheating scandal in the Atlanta school system. Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) scores were routinely manipulated, with the knowledge or even the active participation…
From the official bio on Joe Bonamassa’s website: As Joe Bonamassa grows his reputation as one of the world’s greatest guitar players, he is also evolving into a charismatic blues-rock star and singer-songwriter of stylistic depth and emotional resonance. His…
Just a quick follow up to yesterday’s post about ESPLOST and TSPLOST (1% sales tax increases for education and transportation infrastructure). In the Dublin Courier Herald and here on Peach Pundit, Charlie Harper paints a grim picture for TSPLOST prospects…
Let me begin by saying that I think, for the most part, that “special purpose local option sales taxes” are generally a poor way for governments to raise money. If individual public capital projects are truly worth doing, then elected…
No, this is not a cautionary tale about how to avoid decline in an urban area. I pretty routinely hear people talk about Savannah or Atlanta becoming the “next Detroit”. There’s sometimes a racist edge to those statements, which often…
I’m not really trying to stir the proverbial pot with the provocative title to this post, but it’s a fair conclusion based on the news of the past few days. Two weeks ago, 7-year-old Javon Roberson was savagely mauled by…
Flannery O’Connor famously said: “There won’t be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.” Well, a couple of years ago Brad Gooch proved that…
From today’s Savannah Morning News, reporter Mary Carr Mayle brings us some good news: Jobs the top priority for state’s new commissioner of economic development: As a new state administration begins to settle in, Chris Cummiskey, Gov. Nathan Deal’s choice…
The FDIC apparently took the holiday weekend off: no banks were closed yesterday in the United States. With half of 2011 gone, here’s a little data from the “state stress level” compiled by surferdude808 and available here on Calculated Risk:…
