While the baby coffin protest dominated the aftermath of Mayor Jackson’s speech, it wasn’t the only political prop used that night.
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Editor’s Note: The Rumble That Roared
LAST FRIDAY was an unusual day in downtown Savannah. The same day TV cameras surrounded former police Chief Willie Lovett as he was sentenced to prison on federal charges, new […]
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Editor’s Note: Judging our revolving-door legal system
This is White’s eighth arrest since his early release from state prison in 2013. He has been arrested over a dozen times before by local law enforcement. And that was his second prison term.
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Editor’s Note: Chief Lumpkin & ‘information flow’
With significantly more detail than recent administrations have divulged, Lumpkin illustrated the real-world problems of policing in a community where ‘information’s not flowing.’
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Editor’s Note: To call police? Or not?
Social media debates aside, when does practicality override politics? What do you do in the heat of the moment when someone reaches for a gun under a clear blue sky?
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Editor’s Note: Blueprint for better Savannah begins now
In 2015 Connect Savannah will take a role in helping affect the positive change Savannah sorely needs—though as always it’s up to the voters to decide what that change actually needs to look like.
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Editor’s Note: Making 2015 the Year of What Works
The problem has never been a lack of ideas, or even a lack of money. The problem has been the insistence that only one idea is the right idea, that only one philosophy can be the right philosophy, that it’s more important to be right than to find what works.
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Editor’s Note: Too little, too late on ‘taboo issue’?
After years of sticking their heads in the sand, City Council last week hosted a Call to Action Summit.
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Editor’s Note: Consulting on crime
Savannah has known literally for decades that the most immediate cause of gun violence here—in addition to larger sociocultural issues—is a relatively small group of chronic violent offenders.
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Editor’s Note: Who really benefits from racial conflict?
I’ve seen more of these high-profile racially polarized court cases than I can count. But they follow the same dog-eared script, doing nothing but perpetuating racial strife. You always have to ask who benefits?
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Editor’s Note: Giving thanks in a thankless time
Things to be grateful for about Savannah, if only as a reminder of some of the things at stake that are worth fighting for.
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Editor’s Note: Trailblazing a new Canal District
If the primary vision for Savannah’s Canal District is just to help tourists find their way to the new Arena, then it will have failed before it’s even begun.