
I sure would have loved to have been a fly on the way as Andre Leon Talley and Maureen Dowd toured the exhibit “Little Black Dress” at the SCAD Museum of Art.
“The economy has changed, but the plan doesn’t need to,†said Sottile, referencing the city squares that Gen. James Oglethorpe laid out almost 300 years ago. “It survived the American Revolution, the Civil War and the 20th Century. And now it’s defining sustainability in the 21st Century.â€
Moments ago, after Savannah City Council returned from a lengthy executive session, Mayor Edna Jackson stated publicly that on Tuesday she asked Savannah City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney to resign.
I’m unclear at the moment whether that resignation was actually tendered, and Mayor Jackson stated that no official actions could be taken at this specially called meeting today.
There are certainly things that could have been done at the federal level — and to a lesser extent at the state and local levels — that could have softened the decline somewhat and put us on a slightly steeper recovery curve. But most of those potential moves would have been either politically impossible or would have carried other risks.