Orlando Montoya

Orange Crush: Justice is slow but inexorable

• By Orlando Montoya
I'm happy to report that this year's Orange Crush has brought some needed changes that make the City of Tybee Island, at least officially, legally and on paper, less racist.
• Tags: Community, Orange Crush, Tybee Island, Julia Pearce, Mayor Jason Buelterman

Preventing the death spiral: CAT looks to the future

Chatham Area Transit looks for community input on models to keep the system viable

• By Orlando Montoya
• Tags: Community, Chatham Area Transit, CAT bus routes, High coverage, High frequency, Jay Jones, Clinton Edminster

Blarney Stone comes to Savannah for good causes

Kiss it and create more than luck for local charities

• By Orlando Montoya
Smith’s idea was infectiously simple: Buy a piece of the Blarney Stone, bring it to the South’s biggest Irish party and have people kiss it to raise money for various charities
• Tags: Saint Patrick’s Day Issue, St. Patrick's Day, Blarney Stone, Savannah Blarney Stone

Vietnamese New Year celebrates culture and community

• By Orlando Montoya
Nguyen, a Catholic priest, oversees the tét festival organized by his church, that of Saints Peter and Paul in Thunderbolt
• Tags: Community, Savannah Vietnamese Nationalist Association, Vietnamese New Year Festival, Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul

Environmentalism and the state legislature: A preview

• By Orlando Montoya
A guide to what environmental legislation stands a good chance at surviving the upcoming 40-day Republican-dominated General Assembly and becoming law.

Reconstruction Era National Monument still a work in progress

Savannah sites could join Beaufort S.C. locations

• By Orlando Montoya
• Tags: Community, Reconstruction Era National Monument

Nighttime Tour regulation: Target the few bad apples instead

• By Orlando Montoya
Battle lines get drawn, people get defensive and talk gets hot. And there's a lot of hot talk with this issue.

Mimosas and Marsy’s Law: A voting guide to the ballot questions this year

• By Orlando Montoya
You're going to be voting on nine, yes nine, ballot questions this election season. Do you know what they are?
• Tags: Politics, Ballot Questions, Marsy's Law, Mimosas, Brunch bill

The Tale of CAT 14

The case for reexamining local bus routes

• By Orlando Montoya
The larger problem is that CAT’s entire system needs to be completely re-routed. CAT hasn’t rethought its basic route map in decades.
• Tags: Community, Chatham Area Transit

Tailwinds prompt Democrats to compete for more seats

• By Orlando Montoya
Adam Bridges, Alicia Scott, and Sandra Workman are fighting apathy as much as incumbency in suburban districts once thought unwinnable
• Tags: Politics, Sandra Workman, Adam Bridges, Alicia Scott, Chatham County legislative seats, Democrats

Breaking down the new ‘hands free’ law

• By Orlando Montoya
Don’t touch it. Put it away. Turn it off. Put it in airplane mode. Just don’t touch it. Kind of like a strip club.
• Tags: Community, Hands-free driving law

Remembering Jim Bacote

Gullah-Geechee historian and museum founder promoted coastal Georgia as an epicenter for African culture in the Americas

• By Orlando Montoya
Quite simply, what Bacote was doing was healing the world – one bus load of students, one mobile home of curious Midwesterners, one tour bus of African-American pilgrims, one family reunion, one lost Floridian at a time
• Tags: Community, Jim Bacote, Gullah-Geechee, Geechee Kunda