There are lots of ways of looking at today’s release of the S&P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices for September. The index actually uses three months of data — July, August, and September, in this case — and is released both…
An interesting piece in Sunday’s Charleston Post and Courier: What’s at stake with Savannah dredging? The piece is laid out as a Q&A, with generally clear responses to basic historical questions as well as more immediate ones. The piece includes…
Hello all. Thanks to those of you who have been reading Savannah Unplugged regularly. And thanks to those of you who check in only occasionally or are here for the first time. Almost all new posts are announced via Twitter.…
All my posts about the 2011 Savannah elections can be found here. This morning, the Savannah Morning News editorial page endorsed Edna Jackson over Jeff Felser for mayor of Savannah. The runoff is Tuesday, Dec. 6th, when somewhere around 24,000…
When I moved to Savannah in 1995, I paid $625/month in rent for a large parlor level apartment on East Gwinnett Street just off the park. It was a newly rehabbed space, and there were plenty of much cheaper places…
It’s been about a month since I’ve posted about gas prices. As of right now (Friday evening), GasBuddy.com reports that the Savannah average for regular unleaded at the pump is $3.166/gallon; the Georgia average is $3.191; the U.S. average is…
I write pretty often about mobility in America, including this very recent post about migration into and out of Savannah and Chatham County. Richard Florida has a pithy and interesting post today at The Atlantic Cities: The Geography of Stuck.…
A quick post regarding income inequality, relying on a couple of wonkish resources. I have made several posts on this subject. First off, there’s really no disputing that income inequality has been steadily increasing in America for decades. Wealth distribution…
[Update: I wrote this review on 11/5, but I’m bumping this back to the top of the blog now that the film has been released.] Walter quit growing at about three feet tall. He’s a covered in fur. He has…
Here’s the beginning of a piece from Bloomberg, Alabama Considers Revision of Immigration Law Ensnaring Mercedes Executive: On Nov. 16, a European businessman paying a visit to his company’s manufacturing plant near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was pulled over for driving a…
I’ve been extremely critical of Georgia’s state policies regarding illegal immigration, especially HB 87, which has apparently led to critical farm labor shortages in some areas — and which has uprooted hardworking, taxpaying families that have lived in the state…
Why would anyone have an umbrella on a beautiful, cloudless day?
Why were frequent public appeals and media mentions unable to determine the man’s identity for more than a decade?
