No good deed goes unpunished, and City Council’s wisdom is likely to enrage partisans on both ends of the spectrum.
Eddie DeLoach
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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: Thoughts on a Fourth of July from hell
Fighting poverty won’t fix everything, but it will fix a lot of things. Sometimes young people make terrible decisions regardless of what you do to help them. But society makes it difficult for young people to make the right decisions in the first place.
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Editor’s Note: Tony Thomas takes City Council with him to rock bottom
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 […]
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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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A Short Field Guide to Sustainable Resistance
WHEW, what a week. B-bye, affordable health insurance. Zip it, National Park Service. Suck it, Standing Rock. Funding for the arts and humanities, flushed. Endangered Species Act, poached. Muslim ban, […]
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Stage On Bay liquor license quashed; Marshall Tucker Band show moved to Lucas
IN A remarkable development at this afternoon’s regular meeting, City Council voted 8-1 to deny an alcoholic beverage license to the new West Savannah music venue The Stage On Bay, […]
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Editor’s Note: Savannah’s continuing double standard on small businesses
Savannah needs to have a coherent policy which balances the very real need of residents to have input, and the very real property rights of small business investors.
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Stage On Bay alcohol license vigorously opposed by Savannah City Council, neighborhood
In a contentious hearing today at the regular meeting of City Council, Mayor and Council members largely seemed to side with many residents of the Hudson Hill community in opposing […]
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Editor’s Note: Good news for 2017, with a warning
One of the things I learned covering this controversy is how ill-informed many Savannah citizens are about the process of funding local nonprofits.
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Editor’s Note: Three-year nonprofit funding phaseout is the devil in the details
I support the idea that nonprofits should have a diversified funding stream. But this clause comes uncomfortably close to comparing arts and social services nonprofits to welfare recipients, who just need a helping hand until they can stand on their own two feet, etc.
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Editor’s Note: Budget battle is only just beginning
City Manager Hernandez fielded citizens’ questions expertly and bluntly, always coming back to painting the same bleak picture: City finances are unsustainable in current form due mostly to the actions of his predecessors.