The number of vehicle miles driven is one bit of data from the 2007 to 2009 recession and subsequent slow recovery that has been especially interesting to me. As Calculated Risk notes, we’ve now gone a record 44 months with…
I’ll begin here: I feel enormous sympathy for the family of slain Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail, and I hope they are able to move on as much as possible now that the execution of convicted murderer Troy Davis…
There’s been a lot of press the last couple of days about poverty in the United States and in Georgia. I’m not going to give a full recap of any of that, so check out news items like this one…
I first saw R.E.M. on October 6, 1984 (I was just 3, haha) at Graham Chapel on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. No I wouldn’t have remembered the date, but the internet can do some magical things,…
The full schedule hasn’t yet been announced for the Savannah Film Festival, but most of the high-profile special screenings are now known — and so too are some of the major guests who have committed. Once again the SCAD-produced event…
Sonia Leigh and her band put on a GREAT show on the opening night of last March’s inaugural Savannah Stopover. Highly recommended.
With Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and Bully Pulpit. I had a few things to say about this show in my column this week in Do. Here’s The Shaniqua Brown performing “Bike Ass” at The Pour House in Charleston…
I’m not planning to make any sort of public endorsement of candidates, but I’m still going to have things to say on this blog about the upcoming election in Savannah and Chatham County. For residents of the city of Savannah,…
I’ve put “methodology” in quotation marks because today’s column wasn’t based on the sort of straightforward numbers crunching that I do pretty often when looking at the economy. And that’s because I wasn’t looking at the economy but at crime,…
Is it because of the bitter debt ceiling debate that spooked markets, consumers, and companies with money to invest? Or is it because of more fundamental economic problems? Are we now rebounding in September? Or will the sovereign debt crisis…
I previously posted some of the thoughts of UPS CEO Scott Davis about ways to boost the economy. Over the weekend on This Week, Christian Amanpour interviewed Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who has clear and authoritative opinions about the lack…
The Savannah Jazz Festival began today with a really, really great jam session at Blowin’ Smoke on MLK. I took the camera. Here’s the schedule for the next three nights (Monday through Wednesday) at Blowin’ Smoke: Monday, Sept. 19: The…
I’ve never been to the Hostel in the Forest in Brunswick — and for no good reason. Since I moved here, I’ve been listening to friends, acquaintances, and travelers rhapsodize about the now 36-year old hostel. I’ve stayed in relatively…
I previously posted here about a great Washington Post piece on income disparity in America. Recently, there have been a couple of Wall Street Journal blog posts by Robert Frank dealing with income and wealth disparity in relatively recent U.S.…
