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The (Civil) Society Column
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The high points of Savannah’s new weed ordinance proposal
BEFORE anyone blows a gasket or busts a lung, let me tell you what Alderman Van Johnson‘s marijuana proposal does not do: It does not condone pot smoking, pot growing […]
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Will Operation Beacon see the light for school volunteers?
Our schools need all the support they can get—and I’m not talking money: In spite of the fact that the U.S. spends more per pupil than almost any other developed country, American students now rank 40th in math in the world.
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How to do justice by the justice keepers?
I met Phillip ‘Philly’ Meyers on the Occupy Savannah picket line way back in 2011, and from then on, every time I went out to cover anything smacking of progress and socioeconomic justice, he was there.
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Revenge of the Snowflakes
#GrabEmBytheMidterms has become a national rallying cry, and amped voter registration efforts has already flipped seats (college football notwithstanding, bless y’all, Alabama.)
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Ask the Savannah Psychic: What will the future hold?
It was a bombshell to discover that the city’s eponymous clairvoyant is not a wizened crone wearing a turban and wielding tarot cards in Colonial Cemetery.
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‘Tis the season for Jubilee
I’VE NEVER been to the North Pole, but I dare say that Savannah at Christmastime is most magical. The lights twinkling in the graceful arms of the moss-sleeved oaks, the […]
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What Would Mother Mathilda Do?
I guess I envision the Holy Mother as a divine superheroine, an enigmatic combination of Wonder Woman and Mother Theresa.
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How to not be a creep at work
Local employment attorney Wade Herring thought he’d seen it all, but nothing like the crisis of conduct we’ve got going on in 2017.
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The slow clock of the Okefenokee Swamp
Home to a vast variety of biological bounty including three dozen species of amphibians, fourteen families of fish, hundreds of species of birds, plus a toothy menagerie of snakes, bobcats, bears, panthers and more gators than anyone can count.
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A Strange Thanksgiving to All
It’s been a wild ride, Winona, and I must admit I’m a little giddy with all the plot twists.
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An outrageous evening with the Divine Feminines
Raised a feminist but nerdy and unsure of myself, I saw in drag queens’ giant towers of teased-up hair and painted dragon talons a powerful archetype rarely seen in daily life.