The White House’s We the People site guarantees official responses to petitions for action or information that reach a threshold of 25,000 digital signatures. In one of the latest responses, a White House expert in science and technology denies that…
I’ve been writing for ages about the inevitability of continued declines in home prices. Today’s release of CoreLogic’s Home Price Index pretty much confirms that that trend has arrived. CoreLogic’s HPI is not seasonally adjusted, and we’ve now hit the…
Ok, let me begin by saying that I’m a little embarrassed that these photos aren’t better — and that I don’t have more of them. I don’t do much sports photography, and I certainly don’t often roll out of bed…
From the AJC’s Signs look hopeful 
for deepening river: For Atlanta, the consequences are huge. Businesses across the metro region shipped $9.5 billion in cargo through the ports of Savannah and Brunswick the past fiscal year, according to the Georgia…
I’ve written in recent weeks about how changing demographics in the city of Savannah and throughout the region might impact this Tuesday’s vote. But the importance of the trends extends into many other areas too. I think Savannah’s diversity is…
My advice for getting around town during the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon: put off those errands for a few hours unless you have to do them early on Saturday. If you live in outlying areas, you won’t be affected much,…
Judging from a new poll by InsiderAdvantage, Edna Jackson will pick up the most votes in Tuesday’s mayoral election in Savannah. Larry Peterson writes about the poll in the SMN/SavannahNow today: Poll: Voters like Edna Jackson for Savannah mayor, Sunday…
We need to add at least 100,000 jobs per month to the nation’s economy to keep pace with population growth, so it’s hard to get too excited about the data for October. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Nonfarm payroll…
“Are these crackers for real?” asks Destiny, the sweet ten-year-old African American foster child, as she confronts the peculiar customs of white Iowans. Destiny finds a home amidst the weirdos in Butter, a screamingly funny new movie from director Jim…
A Dangerous Method is smart, entertaining, and provocative, but it’s still a surprisingly flat fictionalization of key moments in the relationship — first cordial and supportive but later bitter and divisive — between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Director David…
The Daily Beast recently compiled a list “America’s Brokest Cities” using “data points weighted equally: the most recently available unemployment rate (August 2011), median household income, and average debt. Data is from a recent report by Experian and the Bureau…
We Need to Talk About Kevin opens with adventurer and author Eva Khatchadourian ecstatically immersed in La Tomatina, the Spanish festival that’s seen here as an orgiastic tomato fight. At one point, Eva is even lifted by the crowd –…
