Despite the high dollars involved, choosing an arena site in order to spur localized development in one particular neighborhood is small-time thinking.
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Editor’s Note: The tax cut that wasn’t
And had Council not voted for the reduction? The City would then have been required by state law to send out a press release with the legally-mandated and quite different headline “Notice of Property Tax Increase.”
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Editor’s Note: Shopping cart syndrome
America has a weird relationship with its citizens who are in poverty. And make no mistake, grocery stores, shopping carts and crime are all linked directly by socio-economics.
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Editor’s Note: Tarheel blues
The ink had hardly dried on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent majority opinion nullifying much of the Voting Rights Act before North Carolina Republicans trotted out new voter ID legislation which makes Georgia’s look downright liberal.
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Editor’s Note: The next Detroit?
Off the media radar, huge portions of the U.S. are at Detroit-like levels of annihilation and desolation, crime and corruption. They just don’t have the notoriety of the Motor City, nor the easy stereotypes.
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Editor’s Note: The Zimmerman trial and speaking back to justice
Saying ‘the justice system has spoken’ is nearly as meaningless as saying ‘the sun will rise’ or ‘the water is wet.’
Of course the justice system has spoken. The question is: What did it tell us?
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Editor’s Note: GOP takes us back to 1979
When you have a decade of quickly diminishing per capita income directly tracking a decade-long takeover of state government by one party, it pays to at least take a peek at the trendline.
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Editor’s Note: The real Paula Deen scandal
I prefer to focus on what the Deen story is really about: The intersection of race and money. That’s the real taboo.
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Cruise terminal: Will it float?
Cruise terminals all over the country — in Houston, San Diego, Norfolk — have been jilted and taxpayers left with huge bills to pay. Savannah taxpayers are being asked to make a similar up-front investment, with a similar chance of success.
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Editor’s Note: Resource-rich, responsibility-poor
And make no mistake, the aquifers are dying. A new U.S. Geological Survey report shows the Floridan Aquifer has receded as much as 18 feet in some areas.
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Editor’s Note: Passing into legend
With a funeral service and procession more like the passing of a head of state than a musician, Savannah said goodbye to the late Ben Tucker.
