The National Trust for Historic Preservation comes here just as we face the most contentious period of downtown development since Merritt Dixon plonked the modernist cube of the Hyatt Regency down onto River Street.
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Editor’s Note: Follow the money on Council pay hike
The move to hire Lumpkin came concurrently with City Council voting itself a sizable annual pay raise.
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Editor’s Note: Ben Carter, tourism, and ‘unknown facts’
While tourism in Savannah is robust, our numbers of “actual” tourists are likely far lower than usually cited by local movers and shakers in order to justify whatever it is they want to do, and want us to pay for.
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Editor’s Note: Who are the real ‘haters?’
The irony is that probably no single entity in Savannah has done more than Historic Savannah Foundation to preserve and promote the engine that drives much of our current economic development.
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Editor’s Note: Two Savannahs, further apart than ever
Downtown Savannah could easily morph into a Disneyfied entertainment/tourism zone of corporate interests catering to affluent visitors, ringed with socioeconomic despair.
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Editor’s Note: Idiocracy on Augusta Avenue
The only silver lining is that the dangerous irresponsibility exhibited by Commissioner Shabazz prompted a speedy backlash.
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Editor’s Note: Mista Dee’s reality
Mayor Edna Jackson deserves kudos for her statesmanlike response to the shooting.
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Editor’s Note: ‘Slow-vannah’ no more?
BACK IN FEBRUARY, on a blustery cold day on Broughton Street, developer Ben Carter addressed an eager crowd at his first local press conference—the kind of event usually reserved for […]
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Editor’s Note: City’s new bar law is drunk with power
The proposals don’t really address current issues, and instead seem likely to close businesses and put people out of work—while concentrating more power into the hands of big hotel and chain store developers.
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Changes afoot for local police?
As ‘Operation Thunder’ roadblocks all summer seemed to the public to occupy more police attention than the shootings, Metro is responding to the criticism with new initiatives. However, police are also plain that the new initiatives are short-term.
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Editor’s Note: Ferguson and the future
Georgia law enforcement ranks third in the U.S. in receiving surplus Pentagon arms and equipment.
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Demolishing credibility
City’s controversial proposed purchase on Waters Avenue comes at a bad time