Click here to read my City Talk column in the Savannah Morning News> about Savannah River dredging, jobs, and the environment. Two weeks ago, AJC PolitiFact examined Governor Deal’s claims that dredging would create jobs in the state: We found…
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More thoughts on dredging and jobs
Those interested in the issue of dredging the Savannah River to accommodate larger vessels after the expansion of the Panamal Canal is completed in a few years should go straight to a piece by Mary Landers in today’s Savannah Morning…
Savannah River dredging approved for 47′, not 48′: will one foot matter?
The AJC and Charleston Post & Courier headlines about today’s approval of Savannah River dredging focus on the one foot difference, which could reduce cargo by 800 containers per ship.
AJC investigative series to look at Savannah Harbor dredging claims
The AJC announced today that the paper will publish a three-part series next week looking at claims regarding the long-proposed, much-studied, and much-debated Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. I have written a lot on the subject, and was one of the…
New lawsuit just another complication for Savannah River dredging
My City Talk column on Sunday is about the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project — the controversial plan to deepen about 30 miles of the Savannah River channel to accommodate larger cargo vessels expected to come to the East Coast after…
SMN: The local economy in 2013
The key paragraph: “The economy is expected to continue its moderate — but still subpar — pace of growth, as consumers, businesses and governments adjust to the new normal of fiscal constraint.”
Savannah Harbor Expansion Project gets official nod
An Assistant Secretary of the Army signed the Record of Decision on October 26th authorizing the massive, $650+ million dredging project for the Savannah River.
East Coast port expansions: more skepticism about costs and about job creation
Transshipment — moving goods from bigger vessels to smaller ones on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal — might mean that much of the planned East Coast harbor dredging is unnecessary.
AJC’s “Port Wars”: part one looks at uncertainties of global trade
Click here for part one, which talks about uncertainties regarding global shipping generally and Savannah specifically.
Regular readers of this blog and my columns already know the basic terrain of the issues laid out clearly in Corps of Engineers’ analyses:
More predictions for 2012 for local and state economy, including housing
I’ve already posted excerpts from and links to a number of credible predictions for the 2012 economy of the Savannah metro area on up to the national economy Today, two more. From Mary Carr Mayle’s Savannah’s outlook for 2012: More…
Looking at regional disparities in unemployment rates (or: why are things so bad in the South?)
Unemployment data is really slippery, and I’ll post something on Sunday as a follow up to a portion of my SMN column in which I mention some of the political sleight of hand of blaming seasonal factors for numbers that…
Extreme cuts to public education: the wrong path for Georgia’s future
Last week, Savannah-Chatham County schools announced that a net of about 90 teaching positions would probably be cut for next year. Younger teachers — those who often have the most enthusiasm, are quite literally the building blocks for the future…
Port cargo growth would stay the same with or without deepening, according to the Corps of Engineers
My column in the Savannah Morning News today, “Harbor deepening and its benefits”, is one of the most important I’ve written in some time. I am not going to quote or even recap all of it here, so I’d encourage…