This is the sixth in occasional posts previewing acts slated for the Savannah Stopover festival March 9-12, 2011. Check out previous posts about Astronautalis, Little Tybee, Class Actress, The Drenched Earth Tour, and Murder By Death, Fake Problems, and Buried…
Opening of Psychedelic — a new phase in Telfair history?
I always believed that the Telfair Museum of Art should go modern with its new building. I won’t try to recap the decade-old controversy here, but many prominent Savannahians thought the planned new building should “fit in” — i.e, that…
Morning headlines: politics and the port, Georgia poised to mimic Arizona, Fannie and Freddie phase out debated, more examples of city bureaucracy
Lots of interesting headlines this morning. I could go on and on about each of these items, but I’ll keep it short. An interesting article from Maria Saporta with the Atlanta Business Chronicle on the pretty obvious political quandary of…
Pictures of and a few comments about King Street in Charleston
I was in Charleston briefly last week, just a quick wander around town after having lunch with National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon (Lord of Misrule) and some professors at the College of Charleston. (Jaimy spoke here last Thursday and…
Chris Morrill’s first year in Roanoke: a reminder of what might have been
There’s a great piece in the Roanoke Times about their current city manager — and our former assistant one — Chris Morrill: “New Roanoke city manager keeps a low profile”. Given the recent turmoil in Savannah over the city manager…
Georgia legislature headed toward a controversial crackdown on illegal immigration
A couple of weeks ago, representatives of affected industries — especially agriculture — seemed like they would sway the Georgia legislature away from passing an “Arizona-style” law targeting illegal immigrants. But it looks at this point that some version of…
Port cargo growth would stay the same with or without deepening, according to the Corps of Engineers
My column in the Savannah Morning News today, “Harbor deepening and its benefits”, is one of the most important I’ve written in some time. I am not going to quote or even recap all of it here, so I’d encourage…
Savannah Stopover preview #5: Murder By Death, Fake Problems, and Buried Beds
This is the fifth in occasional posts previewing acts slated for the Savannah Stopover festival March 9-12, 2011. Check out previous posts about Astronautalis, Little Tybee, Class Actress, and The Drenched Earth Tour. Since I’m previewing three bands, this is…
Girl Scouts, cookies, and sidewalk sales
Every year when I would see Girl Scouts selling cookies from a table in front of the Juliette Gordon Low Home, I’d have the same thought: “Why can’t every business do that on their sidewalk if there’s still plenty of…
Savannah city manager saga nearing an end — for now
There are still details to be worked out, but Rochelle Small-Toney will be Savannah’s new city manager, with no “acting” or “interim” in front of her title. The question that Savannahians should be asking right now is this: why didn’t…
Some thoughts on the cuts to HOPE scholarships
As was widely expected and necessary, Gov. Nathan Deal proposed cuts to the lottery-funded HOPE scholarship and pre-K programs. I haven’t been thrilled with the comprehensiveness of any of the news reports I’ve seen so far, but the AJC’s seems…
National home prices down 3.9% in 4th quarter of 2010, according to Case-Shiller
Regular readers know that I’ve been writing for a long time about house prices — and I’ve been writing for well over a year about the inevitability of continued price declines. As I discussed at length here, the homebuyer tax…