In today’s City Talk column in the Savannah Morning News, I have a few preliminary thoughts on the city of Savannah’s new 100 Worst Properties list, which is part of the Blight to Bright campaign. I find it so interesting…
Category: Living Savannah
What can we do about rapid gentrification of Savannah’s older neighborhoods and the likely increase in suburban poverty?
Flooding on Abercorn Street (video): how can we minimize the damage?
Saga of blighted building on Waters Ave. turning into another embarrassment for Savannah city officials and a state senator
Flannery O’Connor died 50 years ago today — a few thoughts
Scenes of Savannah’s Broughton Street and Tybee Island in first trailer for “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water”
Check out this spectacular 2-minute time-lapse video of Savannah
Savannah restaurant scene getting more interesting — a quick roundup of latest developments
Flawed search process propelled Savannah’s plans to raze historic cottages for a new police station
Hugh Acheson’s The Florence opens bakery and coffeeshop, dinner coming soon
Savannah’s plan to destroy historic homes for new police precinct is even worse than I thought
The city of Savannah’s plan to replace relatively recently renovated historic workers’ cottages with a new police precinct is one of the worst public policy decisions I’ve seen since I’ve been writing columns about city life. (That’s 14 years and…
Fountain in front of Forsyth Park stage will be removed (a little late, but a good idea); a lesson in design
So the fountain in front of the stage in Forsyth Park will be removed — the decorative part, not the spray fountain next to it. If you’ve been among the thousands frustrated over the last four years by the way…
SCAD graduation New Alumni Concert 2014 in Forsyth Park will feature Mutemath, Lucero, Brett Dennen
David Simons ends bid for Savannah-Chatham school board president
David Simons told a variety of local media outlets, including WTOC and the Savannah Morning News, that he was dropping out of the race for the presidency of the Savanah-Chatham school board. Simons finished second to Jolene Byrne in Tuesday’s…