Not all of my candidates won in this year’s elections in Savannah, but I’m relieved that the campaign season is over. Now we can get down to holding the winners accountable for the pledges they have made — and to…
Month: December 2011
Edna Jackson elected Savannah’s new mayor; Tom Bordeaux takes at-large council seat
If you want some more data on how the reporting unfolded over about an hour on Tuesday evening, see my live blog. Tonight went pretty much as I suspected. 21,749 Savannahians voted in the mayor race in November. 19,466 voted…
Live blogging Savannah’s mayoral and aldermanic runoff
10:05 p.m. I made a follow up post: Edna Jackson elected Savannah’s new mayor; Tom Bordeaux takes at-large council seat. 9:21 p.m. Thanks to the handful of you who followed this post. At the end of the day, Jackson just…
No surprise in CoreLogic index of home values
CoreLogic is the second-most watched home price index after S&P/Case-Shiller. The October data is a composite of August, September, and October. The data is not seasonally adjusted, so the size of the decline is not as worrisome as a similar…
SMN morning reading: column on housing; alleged campaign improprieties in mayor race
A couple of things I wanted to point out in today’s Savannah Morning News. Of first note, Charlie Harper — columnist, businessman, and editor of the right-leaning political blog Peach Pundit (a site I check almost daily) — has a…
70,000 Georgians stand to lose federal unemployment benefits on December 31st
If you’d asked me a few weeks ago, I would have said that the federal government would almost certainly extend unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless as part of a package extended the payroll tax cut. But now it looks…
“Boxcar Fair”: another beautiful music video from Little Tybee
Well, given the great music videos that Little Tybee has produced in the past, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that the band has come up with another one. Here’s “Boxcar Fair”: Little Tybee – “Boxcar Fair” from Little Tybee…
U.S. now exporting more fuel than it imports (yep, you read that right)
Considering all the desperate calls for the U.S. to weaken environmental standards and to make other moves to encourage oil exploration, it comes as a surprise to many — including me — that the U.S. is now exporting more fuel…
Great early buzz for Dare Dukes’ second album, “Thugs and China Dolls”
Months ago, I posted about Dare Dukes’ successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the making of his upcoming album Thugs and China Dolls. I love Dare’s sound — here’s “Meet You at the Bus”: Meet You at the Bus by Dare…
NYT: Data shows urban areas underrepresented in Congressional districts
Recently, I wrote: Are struggling downtown areas shortchanged by local elections? That post deals specifically with Savannah’s urban core, but there’s a broader issue: cities have been consistently underrepresented at both the state and federal level. The problem is especially…
The Unchained Tour’s Kickstarter campaign for “A ‘Rolling Greek Temple’ of Brilliant Raconteurs”
Because of out-of-town family commitments, I had to miss the sold-out Savannah appearance earlier this year of The Unchained Tour, a storytelling project that traveled throughout Georgia in support of independent bookstores. But that local gig was obviously a big…
AJC on the latest interstate port rivalry between Savannah and Charleston
The AJC has interesting piece today updating some of the political tensions and concrete moves in the ongoing saga of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) and late-to-the-game attempts to get a similar dredging of the Charleston harbor fast-tracked. Read…
Washington Post on the sharp decline in illegal immigration across the Mexican border
Just a quick follow up to some recent posts about immigration. I’ve posted twice now about a restrictive new Alabama law that has resulted in not one but two foreign auto executives getting ticketed or detained. The most recent encounter…
Savannah runoff elections just two days away
We’ve entered the homestretch in the Savannah mayoral runoff between Jeff Felser and Edna Jackson, which will be decided on Tuesday, Dec. 6. I’ve written a lot about the 2011 city elections. See my page of links to posts, and…