“We’ve ruined countless relationships, worked shitty part-time jobs, and sold almost everything we have of value just to stay on the road,” B.J. Barham says at one point in the video embedded here that accompanies American Aquarium’s Kickstarter campaign to…
I can’t even begin to say how many frustrated downtown residents, commercial property owners, and business owners I know right now in Savannah. In my City Talk column today, I close with some lengthy (for a newspaper column like mine)…
From Animal McMansion: Students Trade Dorm for Suburban Luxury in today’s NYT: Here in Merced, a city in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley and one of the country’s hardest hit by home foreclosures, the downturn in the real…
I have a love-hate-but-mostly-love relationship with Facebook. Eventually, I want to post here about my absurd number of network contacts. But as an occasional teacher of journalism courses and as someone who with more than a passing interest in issues…
Normally the FDIC shuts down banks on Fridays, but tomorrow is Veterans Day. From the press release: Community Bank of Rockmart, Rockmart, Georgia, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance…
Well last night was another stellar show produced by the Savannah Music Festival’s new year-round series: Broadway star Audra McDonald backed by a trio as she performed a wide variety of songs from musicals dating back to the 1920s. I…
From the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Atlanta fourth-highest in recession job losses: Of the 100 largest American cities, Atlanta had the fourth-highest private-sector job losses from September 2007 through September 2011, according to an On Numbers analysis of new data from…
Van Johnson may have lost the support of many people in the downtown Savannah community (including many business owners who live and therefore vote in other districts), but he easily won re-election to his 1st district council seat with 68%…
If you want evidence of Savannah voters NOT simply opting for candidates of their own race, take a look at the aldermen-at-large positions. Carol Bell, a black candidate, won Post 1 easily, with 64% of the vote in a 3-way…
Sunday package sales of beer, wine, and liquor was approved in Tuesday’s vote for every municipality in Chatham County except Garden City, where it failed 601 to 546. (One realizes just how small some of our municipalities are on election…
There were only a few surprises in today’s elections in Savannah. As I had been expecting for weeks, the mayoral race will come down to a runoff between Edna Jackson and Jeff Felser. First, a few words about the also-rans.…
A fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal: Why Traffic Jams Are Bad For You There are many strong arguments for trying to get Americans to drive less and to take public transit more often, to choose alternate methods of…
