The Savannah Film Festival is back again with an outstanding variety of films and special guests. You’ve heard of ‘Six Degrees of Separation?’ You don’t even need six degrees to […]

PUBLIC SCHOOLS enjoy unique status in American society. Perhaps no other institution is so widely recognized as needing drastic reform, yet so fiercely resists the slightest change. Chalk it up […]

For a while there the skies even parted for us. This past Sunday’s annual Picnic in the Park was threatened by a nasty rainstorm, but apparently it was just our […]

As I WRITE this column it appears — despite whatever incendiary opinions we may hear in the “public comment period” a few hours before — that Rochelle Small-Toney will be […]

BODIES IN THE RIVER. Gunshots at football games. Meth labs in Ardsley Park. Fights in the squares. Shootings on River Street. Dog packs roaming the town. Target practice at passing […]

“We’re dying of suicide from the inside.” – Alderman and Mayor Pro Tem Van Johnson “I can’t be accountable if I don’t know about it.” – City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney […]

A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS isn’t a lot of money. It’s not as much as, say, $160, which is the amount of unauthorized petty cash expenses that eventually ended up […]

THE NEWS CAME last week that Georgia’s rather optimistically named Environmental Protection Division has, after months of controversy, granted another discharge permit on the Ogeechee River to King America Finishing. […]

I try to look ahead, rather than behind, in this space whenever I can. But a few things need to be said and said again about the recent crushing defeat […]

OVER THE LAST couple of weeks, I had a most enjoyable family vacation to San Francisco and the California coast. I just might write something about that trip soon. But […]