I was honored again to win Connect Savannah‘s Best Local Columnist in their annual readers’ poll. I have sort of a built-in advantage, even though I freelance for the Savannah Morning News and not Connect itself: I write 156 columns…
I don’t know SCAD film major Nicholas Reichard, but I sure like how he sees Savannah. In this stunning timelapse photography, Reichard uses a couple of different cameras and a variety of lenses (you can see the technical specs here)…
Last week, Savannah-Chatham County schools announced that a net of about 90 teaching positions would probably be cut for next year. Younger teachers — those who often have the most enthusiasm, are quite literally the building blocks for the future…
Just how good is Givers? Maybe the question is this: how great is Givers? I first heard of Givers just a few weeks ago when the Savannah Stopover announced they had been booked for a concert after TEDxCreativeCoast at the…
I don’t know how much will be made of Carlos Santana’s political remarks at Turner Field as he received the Beacon of Change award at today’s Civil Rights Game in Atlanta, but there’s already an article in the AJC and…
I didn’t attend last Friday’s TEDxCreativeCoast at the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, but I watched some of it on live streaming — including Abraham Lightning Lebos on the piano and a great talk about hand-painted signs and neighborhood authenticity by…
I’ve studied and written a lot over the years about what makes cities work. Many of my ideas have independently coincided with, been refined by, or directly flowed from the minds of Christian and Amy Sottile, who have done truly…
Well Governor Deal finally signed HB 87 into law today. There’s a good write up and summary of the bill here. I’m opposed to the new law for a mix of Constitutional, economic, and basic human rights reasons. I talked…
I should have thought of posting this earlier today, but for the afternoon you can watch/listen to the stream of TEDxCreativeCoast: Watch live streaming video from tedxcreativecoast at livestream.com Here’s the remaining schedule (and they are on schedule): 12:24 –…
The pdf of Georgia’s state revenues for April can be found here. The headline number of a 2.6% year-over-year increase is weak. That’s barely more than the increase needed to make up for core inflation. Personal income tax revenue was…
Well, as suspected all week, Floyd Adams has said he will run for mayor to replace Otis Johnson. A former two-term mayor and current school board member, Adams was beaten easily by Johnson when Adams tried to return to City…
I’ve been writing a lot less about the housing market in my City Talk columns since Adam Van Brimmer made the jump from sports writing to business writing. It’s been sort of a relief not to feel obligated to wade…
