I might have a little more to say about the 3rd quarter Economic Monitor prepared by Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Center for Regional Analysis, directed by economist Michael Toma, but things are getting better in the local economy. Given the rebounds in tourism and port traffic and given the visibly significant degree of new developments in the greater downtown area, it’s not surprising that employment data are looking strong.
Another dry, wordy, must-read from Nate Sliver at FiveThirtyEight about the most puzzling question of campaign 2012: Why were Romney and his team so surprised by the election night results, when statistical models showed them trailing significantly in the states that mattered most?
Zillow has come up with the “breakeven horizon” for 257 metro areas. That’s the point at which purchasing a home is more economical than renting an equivalent property.
Federal, state, and local government revenues meanwhile slipped from 28.6 percent of GDP in 1980 to 26.9 percent in 2010. Again, the recession is in part to blame for the recent decline in tax revenues, and Obama’s original stimulus and followup steps to goose the economy have also involved hefty tax cuts.
Is it just a big pop joke? Is the goal to make a quick fortune in crazy, campy holiday gifts for folks with plenty of money to burn? I’ve read several articles about the new line, which is based on semi-erotic drawings Ono did for husband John Lennon decades ago, and I still really don’t have a clue.
Grayson Sanders — the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band Snowmine, one of the headline bands announced this week for the 2013 Savannah Stopover — wrote Coke’s new holiday song.
Ceschi put on a great show before a small crowd on his last stop in Savannah, about a year ago.
Despite the disparity in size of the two cities, the advantages of high speed rail travel are pretty obvious. Atlantans could get fast and reasonably inexpensive access to a major tourist destination, while Savannahians would have much easier access to one of the nation’s most important metro areas. The possibilities for business generally and for the creative economy specifically are tremendous. There would be massive benefits to the state’s economy.
More good news from Case-Shiller today, with both composite indices and the national index showing solid year-over-year increases.
Lots of good news today about the 2013 Savannah Stopover festival.
CEO Kayne Lanahan and her team announced the first 40 bands and a few other details for March 7-9, including of Montreal performing a free show in Forsyth Park on Friday, March 8. What a coup.
For lots more details, check out Savannah Stopover returns with free concert in Forsyth Park; In its third year, festival will feature more than 70 bands by Jason Kendall in Tuesday’s Savannah Morning News.
I walk around my immediate neighborhood at all hours of the day and night, but I wouldn’t do that a mere three blocks away on Jefferson Street. For whatever reasons, Savannahians have collectively decided — for decades — to allow street-level drug and prostitution activity to dominate the Jefferson Street corridor. When I moved here in the mid-1990s, the activity regularly reached all the way to Liberty Street, but now it’s pretty much confined to the stretch between Anderson and Victory.
I wandered the deserted streets of downtown Frankfort, Kentucky — my hometown — on Thanksgiving morning. It was an absurdly gorgeous day. I wore a light jacket when I left the house but ended up carrying it — that’s how warm it was.
Last year I posted a similar tour, but, while there are a few duplicate shots, that gallery was mostly on the south side of the Kentucky River in neighborhood closer to the “new” capitol.
