Editor's Note

Editor's Note: Lessons from The Florence’s failure

Editor's Note: Lessons from The Florence’s failure

Savannah has, for better or worse, a robust service industry. The problem is that we don’t have much of a service culture to speak of.

By Jim Morekis Jun 21, 2017

Editor's Note: The Great Downtown Disconnect

Currently, the downtown area is awash in plenty of other examples of what one could loosely define as public/private partnerships

By Jim Morekis Jun 14, 2017

Editor's Note: Tony Thomas takes City Council with him to rock bottom

Editor's Note: Tony Thomas takes City Council with him to rock bottom

As the dust settled and the full impact of the debacle set in, a different question came to mind: Where are all the local activists when we really need them?
JUST TWO DAYS after the incredibly ugly spectacle of last week’s censure hearing of Alderman Tony Thomas, City Council entered a retreat to come up with a strategic plan for all of Savannah. There’s no punchline — that’s the joke.

By Jim Morekis Jun 7, 2017

Editor's Note: Lockamy’s revenge — but for what?

Even as he retires, Lockamy is pursuing an official complaint with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) against Savannah-Chatham School Board President Jolene Byrne. In effect, Lockamy is holding the nearly 40,000 children in the school district hostage to his vendetta with Byrne.

By Jim Morekis May 30, 2017

Editor's Note: Parking matters—and so do voters

Remarkably, the most deeply unpopular measure City Council has addressed in recent memory only received a single dissenting vote.

By Jim Morekis May 17, 2017

Editor's Note: A ‘typical’ Saturday night

Leaving the sold-out show, we see several blocks of Broughton Street and State Street cordoned off because of a possible explosive device in the State Street garage.

By Jim Morekis May 10, 2017

Editor's Note: Another day, another bad zoning decision

Vote on self-storage facility shows need for strategic plan
A QUESTIONABLE zoning decision by Savannah City Council is barely newsworthy these days. Like death and taxes, they seem inevitable and unavoidable.

By Jim Morekis May 3, 2017

Editor's Note: Devil in the details with Memorial buyout?

While on the surface this seems like a great deal, if you scratch the surface you see a few potential issues come up. Issues that, frankly, have received scant attention in the generally fawning regional press coverage of the deal.

By Jim Morekis Apr 26, 2017

Editor's Note: Lucas Theatre mess signals deeper issues

Ordinarily, the firing of five people wouldn’t constitute major breaking news. However, the firing of the Lucas staff last week triggered shock waves in an arts community still reeling from the loss of the beloved Muse venue in February.

By Jim Morekis Apr 19, 2017

Editor's Note: Shut up and enjoy the show

I’ve asked around about this. And most everybody I know says the same thing: Savannah audiences take the cake for being rude as hell and talking over shows.

By Jim Morekis Apr 12, 2017

Editor's Note: Vote on Orange Crush lacks moral authority

I don’t envy any public official or police officer on Tybee the task of trying to placate residents while remaining an open community charged with stewardship of a great natural resource. However, the nature of this faceoff means no management decision can be made in a vacuum.

By Jim Morekis Apr 5, 2017

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