Savannah’s City Council adopted an ordinance on Feb. 12 prohibiting pedestrians from obstructing the flow of traffic by soliciting from vehicles while standing in roadway medians. The traffic-ordinance amendment bans […]
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Editor’s Note: Making City Council meetings more accessible
Beginning with the Feb. 27 meeting, the second City Council meeting of each month will begin at 6:30 p.m., to give citizens a more convenient time to attend.
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2019 Year In Review
1. Earthshaking Savannah election It was a seismic paradigm shift of massive proportions: Mayor Eddie DeLoach was voted out decisively after one term, with most every other City Council incumbent […]
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Who’s running where?
Savannah: For Mayor: Eddie DeLoach, incumbent Van Johnson Regina Thomas Louis Wilson Alderman at Large, Post One: Carolyn Bell, incumbent Kesha Gibson-Carter Alderman at Large, Post Two: Alicia Miller-Blakely Tony […]
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Who’s on first? How Savannah’s government (supposedly) works
Think of the City Manager like a CEO appointed by a Board of Directors
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Editor’s Note: Savannah enters the gun control debate
While acknowledging that City governments can do little to enact meaningful gun law reform, the consensus was that it would so some good to send the resolution to some people who can, such as our two Senators and our House delegation.
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Kesha Gibson-Carter’s moment
IN A year beset by leadership departures at some of Savannah’s top institutions — Telfair Museums, Savannah Music Festival, the Philharmonic and City Hall, to name a few — the […]
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Editor’s Note: Another day, another bad zoning decision
A QUESTIONABLE zoning decision by Savannah City Council is barely newsworthy these days. Like death and taxes, they seem inevitable and unavoidable. More and more good-hearted, engaged citizens I know […]
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Editor’s Note: New City Manager hire is a great opportunity to reexamine some not-so-great ideas
If I had one public request to make of Mr. Hernandez, it would be this: Let’s declare a moratorium on all pending major decisions and initiatives, say through the end of the year, to give him time to revisit and reset things.
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Editor’s Note: Double standards on development continue
After spending 20 minutes berating a private citizen for having the gall to want to open a small restaurant or rent out a room, when City Council is up against a big out of town corporation they’ll just shrug their shoulders and say, hey, these guys are within their legal rights, what can we do?
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Talking with… Ivan Cohen
RETIRED federal file clerk Ivan Cohen gave me his business card. It says he’s the Education Committee Chair for the Savannah-Chatham Council of PTAs. But he wouldn’t mind another title on it. […]
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Editor’s Note: Follow the money on Council pay hike
The move to hire Lumpkin came concurrently with City Council voting itself a sizable annual pay raise.