Governments are supposed to fulfill the basic needs of their citizens. Ours doesn’t pretend to try.

What, the election is this Tuesday, Nov. 8 and you haven’t picked your mayoral favorite yet?

Much attention has been given to Savannah’s mayoral and city council races, but there’s more on the ballot than just people. Here’s a brief overview of the measures up for your vote in Chatham County Nov. 8:

Everyone has their issues. For the people who attended last Tuesday’s Alderman At–Large forum, those issues focused on transportation and sustainability, both big buzzwords for Savannahians concerned about safe bike and walking routes and energy efficiency. “Transportation and development are very closely linked,” said Savannah Bicycle Campaign chairman Drew Wade in his opening remarks. “Where we build is closely related to how we travel.” Several member of the local Sierra Club chapter took seats for ...

Savannah’s mayoral candidates covered much political ground at a forum at the Visitor’s Center Sept. 20, revealing some of the positions they’ll stake out in order to differentiate themselves from the rest of the crowded field.

The municipal elections might still be four months away, but the campaign season is getting into full swing. Gardens of colorful candidate signs have bloomed at various intersections, while the candidates themselves zig zag from neighborhood meetings to meet and greets.

While anemic budgets are more normal than newsworthy these days, Chatham County’s may be the first locally to have not only struck bone but lopped a whole arm off.

A “Woman Screams for Help After TSA Molestation,” and the “Texas Pat Down Ban May Be Back.” Those are just two of the headlines breaking around the nation recently, as summer travel picks up — and so do concerns over excessive airport security.

Last week’s City Council pre–meeting workshop covered quite a bit of territory and took quite a bit of time, clocking in at just over three hours.

Organizations opposing House Bill 87, Georgia's pending immigration reform bill, are planning a comprehensive boycott of tourism and in-state businesses if the bill is signed into law by Governor Deal.

Congressman Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama need to learn a lesson from history: Any government that cannibalizes its children, its elderly, its working poor and middle class to support an unprecedented massive military buildup along with tax cuts to benefit the rich, eventually brings the economy and the people to their knees.

There are more than 1,600 bills and resolutions circulating at the state capitol during this year’s legislative session. The future of HOPE funding and immigration reform have been the center of attention this year, but that doesn’t mean that’s all that’s going on under the Gold Dome. With about a week and a half left in the 2011 session, we present a few of the good, bad and ugly pieces of potential legislation that could ...

The prolonged and divisive search for a permanent City Manager has come to end, although true resolution remains distant. At last week’s City Council meeting, Rochelle Small–Toney was approved by a 5–4 vote along racial lines, and is expected to receive a formal offer for the job at the council meeting on March 10.

Matters of economics, democracy and faith collided beneath the gold dome of the Georgia capitol last week, writing the newest chapter in the ongoing battle over the state’s Blue laws, which prohibit package sales of alcohol on Sundays.

The search for a permanent city manager was nearly concluded during the last City Council meeting. But the process stumbled back into the quagmire of confusion and uncertainty from whence it came. Three possible solutions were presented, despite the fact that the city manager search was not on the day's agenda.