You have to wonder if the fact that there is no competitive race in Mayor DeLoach’s home district will depress interest and turnout where he needs it most, and paradoxically keep him from a second term.
Bill Durrence
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Editor’s Note: Smoke and mirrors of another election year
The truth is that this election year “tax cut” will actually result in a higher tax rate than the City had just a year ago!
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Editor’s Note: City budget picture acknowledged as ‘not sustainable’
Despite record-high tourism, record-high port activity, and a frenzy of development in some areas, City Council was warned in a workshop last week that “The revenue base is not growing as fast as the expenditure base.”
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Editor’s Note: Looking ahead to a hot political year locally
One of the frustrating things about local politics now is the bizarre insistence by many people that there are only two choices: Stick with what we have, or go back in time four years to the previous administration.
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Arena Construction Manager contract delayed after $3.9 million error causes controversy
A key City Council vote to award the “Construction Manager At Risk” contract for the Savannah Arena was delayed two weeks due to chaos caused by a so-called “scrivener’s error.” […]
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Editor’s Note: Putting the shopping cart before the horse
The abandoned shopping carts represent two things: The property of retail stores, and the efforts of disadvantaged people without dependable transportation to get groceries back home.
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Editor’s Note: Devil of density is in the details
As it takes shape, we now have a bit of an inkling of Savannah’s new strategic plan: Virtually the identical plan that any politically well-connected, large-scale developer here would have. What a coincidence.
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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.
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The Decision By The Numbers
ON Dec. 1, a runoff was held for three positions: Mayor, Alderman at Large Post Two, and Alderman District Two. Beginning in January after being sworn in, Eddie DeLoach will […]
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Editor’s Note: Race and the Runoff
As the grimly sardonic Election Gods would have it, and really largely by chance, every single runoff election this year pits an African American woman against a white man.
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Challenge 2015: Bill Durrence, District 2
SAVANNAH’S 2nd district encompasses the city’s busiest business districts as well as some of it most impoverished neighborhoods, all while accommodating millions of visitors every year. The citywide issues of […]