From the Department of Duh, here’s a pretty cogent piece in the The Washington Post about our current sluggish economy: Recovery could be one of the longest, most difficult in history, economists say. I’ve been writing and talking about this…
Author: bill dawers
West Memphis Three might be freed as early as today
A bit of a departure for this blog today. I don’t comment much on national news outside the realm of politics and economics, and I try not to focus on salacious topics just for the sake of the salacious. But,…
Local press covers Price Street changes
I posted a couple of weeks ago about the looming changes to Price Street in Savannah, which will likely turn from a horrid two-lane, one-way speedway to a much friendlier street with one lane of vehicular traffic, a bike lane,…
Maps tell the story about new West Chatham high school site
[UPDATE, 4/4/12: This high school is now officially called New Hampstead High School, after the name of the New Hampstead development that has been almost completely stalled since the housing bust.] The Savannah-Chatham County public school system is moving ahead…
Odds looking better for high speed rail from Chattanooga to Atlanta
I’ve made a number of posts lately about transit and transportation projects and problems in Georgia. Here’s a bit of good news in my opinion. The Associated Press is reporting that matching funds for a federal grant have been secured…
NYT takes a close look at the Panama Canal expansion
We still don’t know what the final outcome will be in the drive to deepen the channel of the Savannah River in advance of the scheduled 2014 expansion of the Panama Canal, but work is moving ahead in Panama. There’s…
Regional rail from Atlanta into middle Georgia another casualty of flawed sales tax proposal
I’ve written quite a bit about transit lately, including the general lack of commitment to transit projects in road-addicted Georgia. As I noted in a post yesterday, Georgia is right at the bottom in terms of state funding for transit…
Maria Saporta: State of Georgia MIA regarding transit funding
One reason I’m so pessimistic about the likelihood of a robust recovery for the state of Georgia is the lack of state will to nurture the economy of Atlanta. The Atlanta metro area has more than half the population of…
Some numbers regarding job growth in Texas
We’re going to be hearing and reading a lot about job growth in Texas under Governor Rick Perry now that he has entered the race for the Republican nomination. The numbers are tricky — and they are not nearly as…
$1.5 million sale sounds big, but still evidence of home price declines in Savannah’s historic district
As a real estate agent friend noted in a mass email, historic properties are still selling in Savannah. The fundamentals are certainly pretty lousy — too many listings and too few buyers, too many vacant condo conversion attempts — but…
AJC: 30 Georgia counties, 217 municipalities don’t have websites
So imagine you’re affiliated with a company that wishes to expand — one that’s willing to take a risk on opening a store or even a manufacturing plant of some sort in one of Georgia’s small rural counties. You’re doing…
Taking a closer look at Clayton Homes’ zero energy i-house
I wrote about Green Bridge Farm, a sustainable community in Effingham County, in a post a few weeks ago. Yesterday I went out again to Green Bridge Farm for the open house for Clayton Homes’ i-house, a zero energy home…
No sign of recession in Georgia state revenue figures
There was lots of interesting economic data this past week — a crazy and volatile one by any standards. But there was no sign of that craziness in the release of Georgia’s state revenue figures for July, which showed a…
Here are the proposed new Georgia House and Senate district maps
The proposed new maps of Georgia House and Senate districts can be found here. For a quick look, here’s the state House map: Here’s most of the Savannah metro area House map: All of the data regarding population per district…