There’s a curious report from WSAV tonight: Savannah Sand Gnats Looking to Move Downtown. Alice Massimi reports: News Three has learned the owners of the minor league team the Savannah Sand Gnats are discussing the possibility of building a new…
The quarterly economic forecasts of Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Georgia State University Economic Forecasting Center, always deserve attention. He has consistently been a clear voice of reason amidst a lot of hype about the state’s economy. The AJC’s Atlanta…
I’ve reported routinely on the stagnating job market in Georgia generally and Savannah specifically. The jobs data has been getting gloomier of late, and today’s release of October data from the Georgia Department of Labor is pretty disturbing. The Savannah…
I’ve already posted this map from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, which regularly updates its employment-based coincident and leading indices of economic activity: Note that that map is for September; we’ll get an October map in another week or so. Since…
There’s nothing new here for regular readers of my column or this blog, but the AJC has a good overview today about the prospects for a housing recovery in the Atlanta area: No quick recovery for metro housing market. I…
I’ve mentioned Bill Augustin previously on this blog — he’s worked with publicist Bobby Zarem in New York for more than a decade. Bill recently came to Savannah for his 11th Savannah Film Festival. But Bill has been working on…
From Passafire’s most recent album:
Here’s the official music video for “Control” from Hide the World: Great sound. Check out the Facebook event page.
It now seems almost a given that, even if the U.S. technically avoids a recession, we’ll be hurt by the slowdown in Europe related to the continent’s debt crisis. That crisis is nowhere near over. From Calculated Risk yesterday, State…
I just listened to most of tonight’s forum with Jeff Felser and Edna Jackson, the final two who will face each other on December 6th in the Savannah mayoral runoff. The event was sponsored by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign, US…
I’ve repeatedly written about Georgia’s weak employment data. A recent study, highlighted in this piece in the WSJ, notes the extreme differences from state to state when it comes to regaining all the jobs lost during the recession and its…
