Orlando Montoya

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

School Board President Candidate: Betty Morgan

'All our students have needs'

• By Orlando Montoya
• Tags: Education, Betty Morgan, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools

School Board President Candidate: Larry Lower

A man with a mission

• By Orlando Montoya
• Tags: Education, Larry Lower, Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools