Idgy Dean – The Sentient Bean – 02/02/12

Live Spaceman – Idgy Dean from Spaceman Sound on Vimeo.

The Farewell Drifters – The Sentient Bean – 01/27/12

James McMurtry – Live Wire Music Hall – 02/15/12

Hurt / Jeffro / The Wandering Madman – Live Wire Music Hall – 02/10/12

Hurt:

Scott H. Biram / Lydia Loveless – The Jinx – 02/03/12

Scott H. Biram: Lydia Loveless — I really love this song:

Jucifer / Guzik / Demonaut – The Jinx – 01/28/12

Jucifer: Check out the Facebook event page for more links.

Broader access to refinancing would help housing market

I’ve spent A LOT of time in recent years studying and writing about housing issues at the local and national level. And I’ve been frustrated by the unwillingness to take bold steps that would clearly help buoy the sector. The…

AJC: UGA loses Hinesville recruit because he can’t prove citizenship

I’ve been highly critical — and will continue to be! — of the various efforts in Georgia to tackle the problem of illegal immigration in ways that are counterproductive. From the AJC’s Immigration policy likely at heart of Chester Brown…

State of the Union word cloud

Full text of the State of the Union and a few highlighted sentences

You’re undoubtedly going to see all sorts of coverage of this, but I thought I’d just try to bold a very small number of things that stand out to me in tonight’s SOTU: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of…

With HOPE scholarships facing long-term funding problems, Georgia Democrats once again propose means testing and other measures

Last spring I wrote about Georgia democrats’ hopes to change HOPE. Now democrats in the state legislature are filing a variety of bills that would guarantee larger scholarships for lower-income Georgians and seem to shore up HOPE’s very shaky long-term…

A few thoughts on the ongoing debate over Paula Deen, diabetes, and Southern cooking

About a week and a half ago, I started a post about Savannah celebrity chef Paula Deen’s admission that she has type 2 diabetes (I did not realize at the time that she has had it for 3 years) and…