I’ve frankly had some trouble keeping up with all the developments for Fashion’s Night Out in Savannah on Thursday, September 8th. It could be an AMAZING night, if adequate numbers of shoppers and supporters turn out. In this post I’m…
Sometimes in arguing for the full restoration of the Oglethorpe Plan, Savannah preservationists get accused of various forms of nostalgia — of arguing for preservation for the sake of preservation, of ignoring contemporary needs.
But those accusations show a fundamental lack of understanding about the grid system established by General Oglethorpe when he founded the colony of Georgia in 1733.
Great piece in Slate, by Anne Appelbaum: The Worst Mistake America Made After 9/11: How focusing too much on the war on terror undermined our economy and global power. She writes in part: In our single-minded focus on Islamic fanaticism,…
I’m still catching up on some interesting articles and such over the past week. On August 30th, Henry Unger at the AJC wrote an interesting piece: UPS chief: D.C. politics gets in way of job creation. CEO Scott Davis provides…
The price of crude has a noisy relationship with prices at the pump, but they clearly correlate to some degree. A couple of weeks ago, I was expecting gas prices in Savannah to slip to $3.30 or less per gallon…
It’s always interesting to check out the hometown newspaper . . . And one has to give the Idaho Statesman credit for the headline “Dawg Pounded”. The paper has a lot of other coverage of the game, but the main…
There’s a great piece by Ryan Avent in the NYT this weekend: One Path to Better Jobs: More Density in Cities. Early on in the piece, Avent seems to be invoking Jane Jacobs’ concept of “squelchers” — those who oppose…
The Street Light has noted in recent days that European banks have been pouring money in recent months into American banks: The cash assets (i.e. bank deposits) that foreign banks are keeping in the US banking system has risen sharply…
As we move toward the 10th anniversary of 9/11, there will be plenty of reminiscences. And that’s fitting. A couple of thousand people died on that day, and those attacks set in motion a series of conflicts that killed many…
I posted already about the failed CreekSide Bank of Woodstock, Georgia, and the failed Patriot Bank of Georgia in Cumming. (Btw, I noticed that since starting this blog in January, I have now made three posts with the identical title:…
I’ve been writing a lot about the banking crisis in Georgia, and I’m not going to repeat all my concerns in this post. It was predictable that the FDIC would be back in the state this weekend. Southern National Bank…
I’m generally more interested in the level of total employment than in the headline unemployment rate, which is highly dependent on the number of people in the labor force. When Americans give up looking for work, they’re not counted in…
As regular readers know, I’ve been hitting a lot of the same cautionary notes for several years in my City Talk columns in the Savannah Morning News. I just haven’t been able to see where growth is going to come…
I’ve been tracking various developments in the world of “green”, sustainability, and transportation generally. So of obvious note from the AJC: Electric car charging station unveiled. From the piece: Atlanta is streamlining its tough permitting procedures to encourage apartment owners,…
