The quest to land a cruise ship may have hit a small delay, but local legislators remain optimistic. At the center of the issue is funding for the feasibility study […]
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Cruise control
The quest to land a cruise ship may have hit a small delay, but local legislators remain optimistic. At the center of the issue is funding for the feasibility study […]
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Prescription for savings
Thanks to a new partnership between the City of Savannah and the National League of Cities, area residents will get a discount on prescription medications that aren’t already covered by […]
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Year in Review: City Life
Recycle this! After years of neglect on the issue, the City started 2009 auspiciously with the unveiling and rapid ramp–up of a Citywide curbside, single–stream recycling program. While consumer usage initially […]
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Year in Review: The ballad of ‘Ruby’
In addition to the usual, um, diet of Paula Deen on your TV (with and without that extra serving of flying ham), Savannah enjoyed a few other small screen turns […]
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Five minutes to midnight in this garden
The plot of land on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 32nd Street hasn’t looked like the community garden it was intended to be. Although attempts have […]
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The forest waited to wrap her arms
I went to a small school that offered theory but not much practice for a big city hospital where I interned. My first patient at Bellevue was Jose, a 13-year-old […]
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Cruisin’ to prosperity
After a decade adrift, the plan to secure a cruise ship terminal in Savannah has floated back up the river, steered by Alderman Tony Thomas and a task force consisting […]
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DeRenne dreaming
The plan to help reduce traffic delays and redevelop parts of southside Savannah, Project DeRenne, took another step forward last Thursday during a public meeting. Consultants from Kimley–Horn and Associates […]
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Fare game: The cabbie reality
You can’t make a living driving a taxi in Savannah anymore. That’s right, loyal Fare Game readers. The recession has taken a big bite out of the taxi business […]
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Serving permitted?
At the City Council meeting last Thursday, the new “bar card” ordinance – the plan to instate mandatory training and licensing for servers in bars and hybrid establishments – passed […]
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Why another Troy Davis hearing?
At 1 a.m. on August 19, 1989, 27 year old police officer Mark McPhail, who did part time security work at Burger King on Oglethorpe Avenue, tried to rescue Larry […]