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…
Month: July 2011
The Atlanta school cheating scandal: could it get any worse?
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…
Joe Bonamassa – Johnny Mercer Theatre – 11/20/11
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…
More on TSPLOST votes in trouble
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…
Will Savannah area voters raise their taxes this fall?
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…
Can we learn anything from Detroit about revitalizing cities?
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…
No charges if pit bulls run loose, but backyard chickens have to go
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 a character in new novel; author in Savannah July 14th
From the About-Damned-Time Dept., Ga. econ. development official focuses on jobs
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…
A mid-year update on Georgia’s banking crisis
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:…