People get worked up about getting into SAA. And people got even more worked up recently when parents at Garrison School for Visual and Performing Arts asked the Board of Education that their students be immune from the SAA lottery,
Editor’s Note
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Floyd’s road less traveled
Going beyond the platitudes to see how pivotal his stint at City Hall was, and how in some ways the current occupants of that building have a ways to go to live up to his precedent.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: DeRenne dilemma
It’s probably “the most expansive and extensive citizen engagement process the City’s ever undertaken.” Then what’s the holdup for Project DeRenne?
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Time for some health problems in GA
Deal and other Obamacare opponents insist ACA is a “handout” to people who refuse to work for a living. But the entire point of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is to make health care available to the working poor.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Bars and the blue law
Forcing bars to stay closed on Sunday makes even less sense after the approval of retail alcohol sales on Sundays in package shops, convenience stores, and grocery stores.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Between a Gnat and a hard place
The City’s problem isn’t what to do with the Sand Gnats, but what to do with Savannah River Landing. Therein lies the conundrum.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Pay now or pay later
City liability insurance is a subject that has come up often in the discussion of the enormous Shanta Green settlement.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Infernal Affairs
The Departed without bagpipes: Breaking down some of the more sordid aspects of the jaw-dropping report on Savannah Police turmoil.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Facing the wrong way
On one hand, it’s ridiculous to complain about a $12 ticket when people are getting gunned down all over town.
On the other hand, giving out silly parking tickets amidst so much gunplay does make you wonder about the City’s priorities.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Wages, Walmarts and work
Shoppers have the option of staying home. Retail employees really don’t, and everyone knows this who has even a passing familiarity with what life is like for America’s working poor.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: A streetcar named — ah, screw it
In a nutshell, CAT’s proposal involves two parallel north/south lines, one on MLK and one on Fahm Street, in the same exact sector of the northwest quadrant, bounded by Gwinnett to the south.
Posted inCommunity
Editor’s Note: Big Brother at the beach
The Tybee license plate reader debate is important because of the nature of the island itself: Only one road on and off. Can’t escape the cameras. That puts the issue into stark relief.