The recent Supreme Court ruling striking down the ban on corporate and union spending at election time is both blessing and curse. On the one hand, removing a legal barrier to free speech is always a good thing in itself. Government shouldn’t dictate who can speak or from where people may get information.

One thing can be said in behalf of the health-insurance overhaul currently shaping up in Washington: it has revealed the curious bedfellows that politics creates.

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted a dinner for 49 Nobel laureates. The occasion provided the opportunity for JFK to display his keen wit in the memorable quote:

Stacy Cordery is one of the country's foremost experts on first ladies. Although this Monmouth College professor started her academic career pursuing theater, she got hooked on history after some correspondence belonging to Eleanor Roosevelt piqued her interest. Now she's written several acclaimed biographies and is the official Bibliographer for the National First Ladies' Library.

The City tried to put the ‘public' back in public policy at its third town hall meeting of the year, although severe rain and thunderstorms probably cut attendance down to a fraction of what it would have been under normal circumstances.

Last week, several members of the Facebook group dedicated to discussing the City's anti-jaywalking campaign engaged Alderman Van Johnson in a lengthy, substantive conversation about the recent ticketing spree.

The Savannah City Council voted unanimously on May 7 to approve the design of the proposed World War II monument that will grace the riverfront. For a while, it looked as though the monument might not be built.

State Senator Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) announced today he will seek the Republican nomination for governor in 2010.

  It was a meeting so big that it started in one place and ended in another. On April 23, the Savannah City Council met with representatives of the Budgeting for Results teams. The teams are made up of city employees who have volunteered to determine ways the city can cut costs yet continue to provide or even improve services. "It’s a very exciting thing to proceed with this in a time ...

Project DeRenne - a neighborhood revitalization project that is doable, or a pipe dream that could lead to a nightmare?

It had all the elements of a great Agatha Christie mystery. A group of people sitting around a large table, wide-eyed and open-mouthed as an angry accuser says he knows one of them has done a dastardly deed. But which one? However, the scene wasn’t a stately English manor house, it was the media room of Savannah City Hall. And Otis Johnson wasn’t Inspector Clousseau, he was one angry mayor. The ...