The City rightly and responsibly expects cultural organizations to diversify their funding streams and not be overly reliant on taxpayer largesse. Most administrations, however, have seen the value of the investment not only for political purposes, but also because it’s just the right thing to do.
Eddie DeLoach
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The Grinch That Stole Culture?
LOCAL arts and cultural organizations got an unpleasant holiday surprise late last week in the form of an unexpected, across-the-board proposal to slash City arts funding. The $200,000 cut, part […]
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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: Something rotten in the City budget
The same organization that helped sell moldy, substandard houses to low-income Savannahians is now going to help build houses on the old Fairgrounds on top of a former landfill with known environmental issues. Hey, what’s the worst that can happen?
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Editor’s Note: Shabazz and Thomas’s very bad week
They’re far from the only egocentric troublemakers in this narcissistic little fishbowl we call home, but these two men between them garnered the lion’s share of outrageous political headlines in Savannah over the past few years.
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Best Conservative
We’re all adults here, so let’s be honest. If anyone had told you a year ago that deep blue Savannah—arguably the most Democrat-heavy place in the state outside Atlanta—would soon […]
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Best New City Initiative
A centerpiece of Eddie DeLoach’s mayoral campaign, the Summer 500 program is a high school internship/apprenticeship program which attempts to match 500 high school age applicants to participating local businesses. […]
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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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City Manager’s retirement and Club Rain closure highlight first Council meeting of 2016
The generous deal for Cutter – the search will likely take at least a year, followed by another year for her as adviser at full salary, followed by her full retirement pension – meant a contentious and racially polarized vote to terminate her will be avoided.
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Editor’s Note: Big announcements, after the election
I’m not the only one frankly perplexed at the timing of all these very important announcements. Reading the tea leaves, you really wonder what was going on behind the scenes.
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Editor’s Note: An election without empathy
Facebook existed during other Savannah elections, but this was the first one where almost all the drama played out literally from beginning to end on social media.
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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 […]