I’m not sure which of these great tunes I like best (probably Chris Thile’s “Bring a Torch”), but they’re all worth listening to. The playlist here can be found at the Savannah Music Festival website in the right sidebar. Or…
The Milken Institute publishes an annual list of Best-Performing Cities. Here’s the summary of the results in this year’s list: Leaders in this year’s index, which ranks U.S. metros based on their ability to create and sustain jobs, are cities…
The Charleston Post and Courier is reporting: The federal spending plan approved by the U.S. House today includes some money for the Port of Charleston, under a provision proposed earlier in the Senate by S.C. Republican Lindsey Graham. The $4.2…
Dare’s Facebook invite lists the following times for this excellent night of music: The Winter Sounds: 9:30 Shovels and Rope: 10:30 Dare Dukes + the Blackstock Collection: 11:30 I’m guessing that things will run a little later than that. On…
From the emailed press release from city of Savannah spokesperson Bret Bell: For Immediate Release Date: December 15, 2011 City Council approves Sunday sale of alcohol Savannah City Council today approved changes to the Savannah Alcohol Ordinance to allow for…
The Georgia Department of Labor releases monthly unemployment data in phases, so we don’t yet know if the unemployment rate in the state fell because more people reported having jobs or because more Georgians simply gave up looking for work.…
Yes, really. A couple of local Savannah TV stations (WSAV and WJCL) have reported on this so far, but don’t have much on what is bound to be a significant local controversy. Read Monday’s press release from the Transportation Security…
Georgia’s Newt Gingrich picked up dozens of prominent new supporters in the state yesterday, but Georgia hardly matters at this point. (Really, with Governor Deal leading the Gingrich effort in the state, what prominent Republicans are going to say no?)…
A couple of reviews from The Winter Sounds website: “Their new record, Church Of The Haunted South, has wide ranging influences and if you are an indie rock fan, you’ll like that they’ve managed to successfully amalgamate all the bands…
A couple of friends of mine were in New Orleans today. My sister, a geology professor of Tulane, drove them to the Lower Ninth Ward and other areas to show them how and where the levees failed. So NOLA was…
The first part of my City Talk column today is about the support in Georgia generally, and in south and east Georgia specifically, for the Transportation Investment Act (the so-called TSPLOST that will add 1% to regional sales taxes if…
[This post was originally made on June 27th, 2011, but I have comments about the widespread availability of downtown parking in my column today. You’ll find that parking patterns on weekdays during the month of December are very similar to…
More on a theme. I wrote last week about the sharp decline in immigration from Mexico; now the Wall Street Journal is covering the trend: From the accompanying article, Far Fewer Enter U.S. Illegally From Mexico: Arrests of people trying…
Thanks to the PBS Newshour’s Patchwork Nation series for providing an interactive graphic that gives a breakdown of the estimated cost to the workers of every county in America if Congress does not extend the payroll tax cut that was…
