State Rep. Edna Jackson (D-Savannah) was recently selected by Speaker Jon Burns (R-Newington) to serve on the House Study Committee on Disaster Mitigation and Resilience. “The Savannah community has experienced […]
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Savannah African Arts Museum hosts online workshops in honor of Women’s History Month
Women’s History Month 2021 is the time to highlight the accomplishments of empowering female leaders.
The Savannah African Art Museum honors Women’s History Month with two virtual workshops. Both on March 27, “Celebrating African Women Hidden Figures” and, a second virtual workshop, “History Maker Mayor Edna Jackson, Savannah’s First African American Woman Mayor, who served from 2012-2016, shares her Africa Experience.”
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Editor’s Note: An inaugural address to remember
I don’t believe there has ever been a mayoral address in Savannah where lesbian, gay, bi, transgender and queer people were given specific, careful shout-outs, rather than generic pandering, if even that.
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Regina Thomas: ‘I intend to win’
‘I don’t have a clique. I don’t have anyone controlling me. I’m not a puppet. I’m not a prisoner to the party I’m in’
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‘Black Media Only’ event garners criticism, roils mayoral campaign
A controversial decision to bar white media from an African American political meeting has garnered negative national media attention for Savannah, and thrown a new twist into what was already […]
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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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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.
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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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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 […]
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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.