I’ve written on this subject before, and I plan to keep doing monthly updates when the U.S. Dept. of Transportation Federal Highway Administration releases data. From the info released today: Travel on all roads and streets changed by -0.9% (-2.1…
The opening lines from the Bloomberg piece Lagarde Urges Larger European Rescue Fund, Recommends Eurobonds pretty much say it all: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde urged European policy makers to increase their bailout fund and share fiscal risks,…
I can’t link to the whole article because The Chronicle of Higher Education requires paid subscriptions, but here’s the beginning of “Swimming Against the Political Tide, a Public University in Georgia Reaches Out to Hispanics” in the current issue: Nestled…
Click here to go to the NPR story and then launch the media player, now streaming the entire album Old Ideas, which is being released on January 31. Or scroll down if you want to listen to individual tracks. A…
As I wait for that big blog of plasma from the sun to come near Earth, I’ve been looking at the exit polls from South Carolina. Let me begin by saying that I’m shocked by the weakness of the Republican…
I already wrote about the Friday failure of The First State Bank in Henry County, Ga., and I’ve written a lot about the Georgia banking crisis generally. Some interesting info in this excellent reporting from the AJC: Henry has been…
The 9th annual Psychotronic Film Festival runs from Sunday, Jan. 22 to Saturday, Jan. 28 at Muse Arts Warehouse here in Savannah. Click here for information on the schedule, location, tickets, and all the other particulars on the Psychotronic Film…
“A huge sunspot unleashed a blob of charged plasma Thursday that space weather watchers predict will blast past the Earth on Sunday. Satellite operators and power companies are keeping a close eye on the incoming cloud, which could distort the Earth’s magnetic field and disrupt radio communications, especially at higher latitudes.”
The Washington Post on the importance of watching the vote in Beaufort County in today’s Republican presidential primary: 1. Beaufort County This was Romney’s best county – by far – in 2008, when he took 26 percent of the vote…
