Regrettably, I missed the Junk 2 Funk Fashion show in 2012 at the Savannah Arts Academy, but I’m planning to go to this year’s event, which is scheduled for three performances on Feb. 1 and 2.
The higher match forces local governments to be more deliberative and accountable. It enforces a basic conservative principle of local responsibility in the generally more conservative regions that rejected TSPLOST. And it continues a discounted rate in areas where citizens have shouldered higher sales tax rates.
“Born in 1986, Swartz has co-authored the first specification of RSS when he was 14. He also started Infogami, a service founded by Y Combinator that was later merged with social networking site Reddit.”
The Obama administration has committed to give official responses to any petitions that garner more than 25,000 signatures (the current threshold).
The ongoing saga of the Georgia banking crisis continued today with indictments of seven people associated with the failed First National Bank of Savannah. From Business in Savannah’s Former Savannah bank president, six others indicted for fraud | BusinessInSavannah.com: The…
From mtvU: “There were over 100,000 votes on this extended holiday round of The Freshmen with Cusses, Drew32 and The Dead Ships each receiving a lot of fan support.”
There’s obviously a broader question here for Chatham County officials: Shouldn’t periodic audits be conducted of every department?
Over the long term, we’ll need to raise even more revenue and/or cut spending further, but the $1.2 trillion seems a good target for sustainability over the next decade and beyond.
That’s a lot of money, but consider the fact that the 400 wealthiest Americans have a net worth of $1.7 trillion.
Word of the Stopover reached a nationwide audience last night as Jay Leno introduced Athens-based band The Whigs, one of this year’s festival headliners.
From the NYT: “Like Mr. Obama, who chronicled his multicultural upbringing in a best-selling autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,†Mr. Blanco has been on a quest for personal identity through the written word. He said his affinity for Mr. Obama springs from his own feeling of straddling different worlds; he is Latino and gay (and worked as a civil engineer while pursuing poetry). His poems are laden with longing for the sights and smells of the land his parents left behind.”
This should be a really interesting show. Highly recommended if you’re looking for something different in a new venue on an off night.
