A QUESTIONABLE zoning decision by Savannah City Council is barely newsworthy these days. Like death and taxes, they seem inevitable and unavoidable. More and more good-hearted, engaged citizens I know […]
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Editor’s Note: Devil in the details with Memorial buyout?
While on the surface this seems like a great deal, if you scratch the surface you see a few potential issues come up. Issues that, frankly, have received scant attention in the generally fawning regional press coverage of the deal.
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Editor’s Note: Lucas Theatre mess signals deeper issues
Ordinarily, the firing of five people wouldn’t constitute major breaking news. However, the firing of the Lucas staff last week triggered shock waves in an arts community still reeling from the loss of the beloved Muse venue in February.
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Editor’s Note: Shut up and enjoy the show
I’ve asked around about this. And most everybody I know says the same thing: Savannah audiences take the cake for being rude as hell and talking over shows.
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Editor’s Note: Vote on Orange Crush lacks moral authority
I don’t envy any public official or police officer on Tybee the task of trying to placate residents while remaining an open community charged with stewardship of a great natural resource. However, the nature of this faceoff means no management decision can be made in a vacuum.
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Editor’s Note: The arts deserve more than lip service
It’s easy to find cities many times larger than Savannah with nowhere near our cultural and artistic offerings. It is a thing for which to be very thankful. Unfortunately, it’s also a thing I’m afraid many of us take for granted.
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Editor’s Note: Tony Thomas and his many enablers
If you’re mad about Thomas doing the same thing tens of thousands of others did on St. Patrick’s Day, except while representing taxpayers, I’m right there with you. But spare me the moralistic hypocrisy.
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Editor’s Note: Tourists in our own hometown?
Downtown is now ringed with hotels, many of which have been allowed to rise higher than traditional building designs we’re used to in the historic district. Like tree branches competing for sunlight, this “race to the top” means the Savannah skyline is increasingly like a walled city. Or, as some critics observe, a gated community for tourists.
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Editor’s Note: Strategizing the Strategic Plan
One could easily argue that a hundred grand is chump change compared to the amount of wasted money and bad PR — water/utility billing software fiasco, cough-cough – that comes from an overall lack of a sane and cohesive strategy. But we already have an elected City Council, a very highly paid City Manager, and a second, lame-duck City Manager still on payroll through the year.
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Editor’s Note: ‘Draining the swamp’ by killing it
We have enough evidence now to conclude that Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” actually had little to do with corruption per se — a commonly held but erroneous interpretation — but rather with dismantling bureaucracy and regulatory infrastructure.
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter and the unicorn
The elephant in the room isn’t so much the number of tourists coming here, but the dwindling number of actual residents in Savannah’s Historic District. I know several people who live downtown who are literally the only full-time residents on their whole block. It’s not a good situation.
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Editor’s Note: Does City Council really need to deal with liquor licenses at all?
Some other cities have separate boards of review whose only job is to deal with alcohol licenses. This frees up elected officials to focus their time and energy elsewhere — instead of on hour-plus deliberations across multiple meetings, as we saw with the excruciatingly drawn-out case of The Stage On Bay.