While the mainstream media focuses on the horserace aspect — and Wikileaks does the investigative journalism the mainstream media used to do — most people long since resigned themselves to the sinking feeling that the Social Contract has been broken. There is no way to understand the 2016 election without understanding that.
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Editor’s Note: Amendment One, ESPLOST, & the education status quo
An essentially bad-faith negotiator like Governor Deal is able to credibly sell himself as a change agent for public education precisely because the people inside the public education status quo always seem to oppose any change with the potential to improve our schools.
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Editor’s Note: Moving on after Matthew
The special guests coming from all over the world for the Savannah Film Festival will likely see a Hostess City completely back to normal. Most are unlikely to see any trace of Matthew’s damage.
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Editor’s Note: Disastrous leadership?
The “mandatory” thing right now is to demand a full reform of CEMA.
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Editor’s Note: Too little, too late on hotel development?
A City Council which has previously meekly acquiesced to almost every whim of every big-box developer suddenly morphed into the cast of The Avengers. Is it a roadmap for smart growth moving forward? Or more like closing the barn door after the horse is already gone?
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Editor’s Note: The money to fight crime is out there
We don’t have time for the same tired old arguments anymore. If the murder rate continues to skyrocket, deciding the winner of the argument will be a moot point anyway.
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Editor’s Note: Rotten to the core?
Our local institutions which make a society a society are also the most plagued with corruption and/or deeply entrenched issues. It hardly seems a coincidence.
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Editor’s Note: A fair question about crime
The DeLoach administration has some positive things to point to, no doubt. But there’s still that homicide number, ticking away in the corner. The benchmark metric by which Savannah mayors are voted in or out.
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Editor’s Note: A College Student Guide for the real world
One of the delightful aspects of my job is I get to be the bad guy who gives everyone the bad news. So here’s some brutally truthful advice you probably didn’t hear in any of your college pitches.
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Editor’s Note: A Grand Jury’s mixed message
In its report on the Tony Thomas case, the Grand Jury opted to endorse some statements which frankly don’t speak particularly highly of the caliber of thought process that occurred.
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Editor’s Note: City Council’s progressive breakthrough
The City’s years-long, frustrating effort to update its alcohol ordinance and its stubborn reluctance to embrace the food truck trend represented two of the biggest and most inexplicable blind spots in Savannah’s social and cultural fabric.
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Editor’s Note: New City Manager hire is a great opportunity to reexamine some not-so-great ideas
If I had one public request to make of Mr. Hernandez, it would be this: Let’s declare a moratorium on all pending major decisions and initiatives, say through the end of the year, to give him time to revisit and reset things.