Some of the more interesting things I’ve learned while researching the police merger issue.
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Editor’s Note: ‘Sick and tired of this story’
The City’s response was a press conference almost identical in tone and content to the one in 2012 the mayor held with the now-former police chief by her side.
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Editor’s Note: Savannah growth under the gun
Some of us have warned for years that Savannah’s inability to address crime would inevitably be a hindrance to meaningful economic growth. City leaders across multiple administrations have had ample opportunity to increase public trust.
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Editor’s Note: Eldercare is the real American taboo
Getting old and dying is not sexy. It’s not pretty. It makes for really unpleasant reading in your local weekly newspaper. But it’s part of life, too.
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Editor’s Note: Gunfight at the GA Corral
The Valdosta incident came about when one man with a holstered gun demanded to see the Georgia Weapons Carry permit and ID of another man in the store who was also carrying a holstered gun.
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Editor’s Note: American History X
The Declaration’s most revolutionary concept wasn’t the idea of America itself, but the idea that human rights are inherent. That governments don’t confer rights, and therefore they cannot take them away.
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Editor’s Note: Cheney’s ghost
Seeing Dick Cheney and his vampirish coterie of true believers saturating the media landscape, as they did in 2003, brings back the dread I felt a decade ago.
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Editor’s Note: Taking your blood, taking your rights
Even worse than Operation Thunder itself is the decision by the Chatham County DA to expand it to include the disgusting and frankly weird ‘No Refusal’ option, aka ‘Grab ‘n’ Stab.’
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Editor’s Note: Where does buck stop in Lovett case?
Lovett’s alleged corruption, first as major and then as chief, took place at minimum during the tenure of two mayors and three city managers.
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Editor’s Note: Did you see that man what he just did?
The whole point of standards is to adhere to them. When you grant one developer an extraordinary exemption, you open the door for others to demand, and get, similar treatment.
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Editor’s Note: Byrne-ing down the old ways
This race proved so many assumptions wrong—and in so doing, also proved there’s a glimmer of hope for our badly abused democratic process.
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Editor’s Note: Simons, schools, and business as usual
More than one local pundit jokes that since Simons’s spouse doesn’t hold office, he’s an amateur by local standards.