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…
A short review and a few pics of The Queers, The Wild, and Free Candy in Savannah
There was already a solid crowd at The Wormhole on Thursday night when a friend and I rode up on our bikes at about 10. The Queers are a legendary punk band, founded in 1981, and Joe Queer is still…
Lucinda Williams singing “Blessed” live
I don’t post many fan videos from concerts — they’re too shaky and the sound is rarely good.
But this one turned out just fine. “Blessed” is the title song of Lucinda Williams’ most recent album; she played it here in the encore in November 2011 at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento.
In some of nation’s worst housing markets, distressed sales down, foreclosure sales down, and short sales up
The following table was compiled by housing economist Tom Lawler and published by Calculated Risk. These are positive trends. All of these markets have a high percentage of distressed sales (the numbers speak for themselves), but the percentage has fallen…
Some good news from Atlanta’s battered condo sector
We’ve been slowly turning a corner in housing for a while, and recent plunges in prices in the Atlanta area are almost certain to help clear some of the excess inventory. Most of the time when I write about housing,…
Dramatic video from plane crash into the Potomac 30 years ago today
Today is the 30th anniversary of a horrific and dramatic Air Florida crash into the Potomac. Here’s a 4-minute video that The Washington Post has put up today with lots of other coverage. Just 5 people survived. One of those would surely have died if a bystander had not leaped into the water to save her.
Delhaize closing dozens of stores in Europe and U.S., including 4 Food Lion supermarkets in metro Savannah
There’s a big international story here. From Bloomberg’s Delhaize to Cut 5,000 Jobs as Food Lion Owner Shuts Stores in U.S., Europe: Delhaize Group SA (DELB), the owner of Food Lion supermarkets, plans to cut about 5,000 positions and expects…
Newly released 2006 notes show how badly Greenspan, Bernanke, and the Fed missed the housing bubble
I think that Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve generally have done a pretty good job managing the fallout from the financial crisis in 2008. But — despite ample warnings from credible analysts for a period of years — Greenspan…
Pro-Gingrich PAC takes the gloves off in S.C., dubs Romney “King of Bain”
How we die: CDC on the 15 leading causes of death in the U.S. in 2010
I hope this doesn’t seem overly morbid, but I saw several press reports about this today and thought I’d link directly to the Center for Disease Control’s Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2010. It’s a surprisingly readable document and it lists,…
Great live video of Anderson East singing “Flowers of the Broken Hearted”
Nashville-based Anderson East did a great show in Savannah at The Sentient Bean last summer, a gig that I included in my 13 top shows of the year by artists I wasn’t already listening to.
Here’s a great video from Music City Roots of a live solo performance of “Flowers of the Broken Hearted”:
Key policy proposals from Governor Deal’s State of the State address
You can read the entire State of the State address here. Governor Nathan Deal delivered it last evening (Tuesday) to the Georgia legislature. As I noted in a post yesterday about some of the Governor’s economic initiatives, I find the…