With Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and Bully Pulpit. I had a few things to say about this show in my column this week in Do. Here’s The Shaniqua Brown performing “Bike Ass” at The Pour House in Charleston…
I’m not planning to make any sort of public endorsement of candidates, but I’m still going to have things to say on this blog about the upcoming election in Savannah and Chatham County. For residents of the city of Savannah,…
I’ve put “methodology” in quotation marks because today’s column wasn’t based on the sort of straightforward numbers crunching that I do pretty often when looking at the economy. And that’s because I wasn’t looking at the economy but at crime,…
Is it because of the bitter debt ceiling debate that spooked markets, consumers, and companies with money to invest? Or is it because of more fundamental economic problems? Are we now rebounding in September? Or will the sovereign debt crisis…
I previously posted some of the thoughts of UPS CEO Scott Davis about ways to boost the economy. Over the weekend on This Week, Christian Amanpour interviewed Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who has clear and authoritative opinions about the lack…
The Savannah Jazz Festival began today with a really, really great jam session at Blowin’ Smoke on MLK. I took the camera. Here’s the schedule for the next three nights (Monday through Wednesday) at Blowin’ Smoke: Monday, Sept. 19: The…
I’ve never been to the Hostel in the Forest in Brunswick — and for no good reason. Since I moved here, I’ve been listening to friends, acquaintances, and travelers rhapsodize about the now 36-year old hostel. I’ve stayed in relatively…
I previously posted here about a great Washington Post piece on income disparity in America. Recently, there have been a couple of Wall Street Journal blog posts by Robert Frank dealing with income and wealth disparity in relatively recent U.S.…
I keep expecting gas prices at the pump to fall even more than they have — and I think the chart below suggests the likelihood of another drop of 5-10% in gas prices. According to GasBuddy.com, the average pump price…
I’ve written before about the seasonal factors affecting employment and I posted yesterday about the ongoing misinformation in the Georgia Department of Labor’s press releases regarding monthly changes in employment. As I noted yesterday, the most important data doesn’t even…
In my City Talk column coming up on Sunday, I consider the broader challenges facing the housing market, still, and I mention along the way some of the grim statewide employment data that was released today by the Georgia Department…
Last Saturday morning, when I saw posts on Facebook about Corey Smith’s show at the new venue Track 29 in Chattanooga being shut down when he began singing “F#@$ the Po Po”, I knew that some of my friends would…
