Chatham County has set the precedent of the ‘Imperial Superintendency’ for many years, with several past superintendents, long before Dr. Levett’s tenure.
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Editor’s Note: Putting the shopping cart before the horse
The abandoned shopping carts represent two things: The property of retail stores, and the efforts of disadvantaged people without dependable transportation to get groceries back home.
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Editor’s Note: Fire Fee = Tax cut for the wealthy?
Because the City bundled the Fire Fee with a one-mill rollback of property tax—equal to roughly eight percent — some affluent homeowners will actually get a tax cut out of the whole deal. While, you guessed it, those closer to the bottom will carry even more of the burden.
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Editor’s Note: Chickens come home to roost in final City budget
A Savannah that is already broke must go deeper into debt to complete the new arena. One of the barriers to sound fiscal management that City Manager Hernandez has already identified is the fact that Savannah has piled up bond indebtedness for various capital projects.
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Editor’s Note: A guide to local pronunciation
Two hundred years from now, as climate change brings the waves of the Atlantic Ocean crashing onto Abercorn Street itself, some tourist from New York will loudly ask your great-great-great-great grandchild where “Abercrombie Street” is.
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Editor’s Note: Fire Fee is an equal opportunity offender
One is tempted to say that the most unity Savannah has shown in quite a while has been its massive opposition to the Fire Service Fee. And that’s why it’s probably going to pass.
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Editor’s Note: Inside Savannah’s sausage factory
One concerning new item came up suddenly: A proposal for the City to partner with Savannah/Chatham County Public Schools on a new program for 3-5 year olds, to the tune of about $2 million in previously unbudgeted City funding.
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Editor’s Note: The budget from hell and what it means
You know those wonderful free events that help set Savannah apart, events that help establish our core identity as a town that celebrates its culture and makes it accessible? Many, such as the Savannah Jazz Festival, would cease to exist without City funding.
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Editor’s Note: ‘Underground Savannah’ in peril
‘Everyone assumes Savannah, of all cities, would have an archaeological ordinance. When they find out we don’t have one at all, the’re usually shocked and appalled,’ says Rita Elliott.
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Editor’s Note: The City’s finances are on fire
What is confounding about the City’s dire budgetary shortfall is how the numbers just don’t seem to add up with the reality we see around us. Tourism has never been higher. The Port of Savannah has never been busier. A new bar or restaurant, or two or three, opens every week. We literally cannot build hotels fast enough.
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Editor’s Note: Details emerge on de-merger
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Police Chief Jeff Hadley, a nine-year veteran of that post, announced he’d accepted the job. Problem is, the media found out before the Chatham County Commission did.
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Editor’s Note: Let’s chat about Neighborhood Chat Pages
There are several notable neighborhood Facebook pages in town, a couple of which are already the stuff of legend. Most all of them provide a similar mix of helpful information, effective community organizing, unintentional comedy, and outright nasty confrontation.