I don’t know what my life is coming to. Friends sent me two lengthy and interesting pieces about parking today — and I read them both in their entirety. From Between the Lines in LA Mag, which focuses largely on…
Month: January 2012
Savannah Stopover announces key dates, new logo, new Facebook page
There’s not a lot of final news in this post, but I thought some of you would be interested in some of the information in an email this afternoon from Savannah Stopover founder and CEO Kayne Lanahan.
Governments cutting jobs at record rate since 2009
From Under Obama, a Record Decline in Government Jobs by Floyd Norris at the Economix blog at the NYT: When Barack Obama ran for president four years ago, he appalled some Democrats by saying Ronald Reagan had been a transformational…
The Economist: Worldwide GDP and inflation forecasts for 2012
We’re by no means out of the woods yet, and the biggest danger for 2012 (the biggest one we know about, at least) remains the possible financial contagion from a deepening crisis in the Eurozone. But there’s a growing consensus…
April 2012 auction scheduled for everything salvaged from the Titanic
A few details here, more in the post:
I’ve also embedded the trailer for the 3-D version of James Cameron’s “Titanic”, which will be released on April 6th.
Joan Didion on her latest book “Blue Nights”
Joan Didion reads from her new book “Blue Nights”:
Watch Joan Didion Reads From ‘Blue Nights’ on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
Open the post to listen to an interview.
Savannah Stopover preview: Grimes and Born Gold
Here’s Grimes with “Vanessa”:
Grimes – Vanessa (Arbutus/Hippos and Tanks 2011) from Grimes69 on Vimeo.
Georgia governor wants to restore half of the 20 pre-K days cut last year
Last year’s cut of 20 days from the pre-kindergarten calendar had a predictable result: the retention rate for pre-K teachers fell markedly. So this year’s pre-K students are getting 20 fewer class days, and those days are being managed by…
U.S. added 200,000 jobs in December; unemployment rate at 8.5%; U-6 falls to 15.2%
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics press release this a.m.: Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 200,000 in December, and the unemployment rate, at 8.5 percent, continued to trend down, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred…
A number of errors in NPR’s “The Race To Dig Deeper Ports For Bigger Cargo Ships”
I think there are a number of objections that one could raise to NPR’s The Race To Dig Deeper Ports For Bigger Cargo Ships, which ran this afternoon on All Things Considered. But it’s still worth a listen, I think.…
8 Georgia colleges to merge into 4
Some major reorganization of Georgia’s state universities and colleges has been in the offing for a long time. In the AJC today, Chancellor: Proposed consolidations are right approach, details the four proposed mergers: — Augusta State University and Georgia Health…
Sofia Talvik – The Sentient Bean – 01/05/12
Promising show at the Bean tonight. B.J. Barham plays later at The Jinx (scroll down my homepage for clips and info).
The Ragbirds – Live Wire Music Hall – 01/04/12
A followup on Georgia’s 2011 anti-immigration bill: Georgia farms lost $74.9 million because of labor shortages
I was a staunch opponent of HB 87, which established a number of tough new measures to combat the presence of undocumented workers in Georgia. Even though most of the law’s provisions weren’t even in effect in 2011, migrant farm…