Democracy can’t work without your involvement. And that doesn’t just mean voting every two or four years.
Editor’s Note
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Editor’s Note: Saving the whales = bridging partisan divide?
Already endangered — mostly due to increased shipping activity to the Port of Savannah and other regional ports– the Right Whales are in a serious birth decline. With only about 400 left on the planet, seismic airgun testing could be what tips them over the edge into extinction.
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Editor’s Note: Poverty, behind the numbers
Savannah, while undeniably trending better, is still hurting by comparison not only with the rest of the country, but with the rest of the state.
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Editor’s Note: A city in search of affordable housing
The main concern is a sense that Savannah is rapidly gentrifying out of control, with a surplus of high-end housing popping up when maybe what we really need more of is affordable housing.
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Editor’s Note: Looking ahead to a hot political year locally
One of the frustrating things about local politics now is the bizarre insistence by many people that there are only two choices: Stick with what we have, or go back in time four years to the previous administration.
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Editor’s Note: Forget Facebook! Focus locally.
There is a feeling of empowerment that comes from being more engaged in your local community, as opposed to the general sense of hopelessness and powerlessness that comes from obsessively focusing on the goings-on in Washingon and various far-flung places.
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Editor’s Note: Dissecting democracy in the election’s aftermath
So who is at fault? It’s complicated and bears a closer look. The issue of very long lines isn’t quite the same issue as which ballots are accepted or rejected.
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Editor’s Note: Time for a post-recession mindset here?
DUE to our print deadline, I write this column the day before the most momentous midterm election of modern times. I have no idea how that’s going to turn out. […]
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Editor’s Note: Health care – the tragedy and the promise
Niema Ross was not only one of Savannah’s most widely beloved and universally admired community members, her passing is also tragically emblematic of our nation’s long-running inability to adequately provide healthcare in a fair, equitable, and just manner.
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Editor’s Note: Polls, schmolls, wave, schmave. Real talk on the state of the race
In my mind the most serious indicators of political change have more to do with what we know for a fact to be true, that we can already see in front of us.
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Editor’s Note: How To Do Business in Savannah 101
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. But not one Council member broke in to question why Somesso’s political contributions were relevant to her alcohol license.
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Editor’s Note: Time for a full school audit
The borrowing of the $21 million just to make payroll is through an instrument called a Tax Anticipation Note (TAN). A TAN is not unusual in the world of bureaucratic funding. But while a TAN is often routine, this particular TAN was anything but.