The largest-ever ship to visit the Port of Savannah is indeed newsworthy — though there’s room for disagreement as to whether it’s good news or bad news.
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New documentary tells tale of raising the CSS Georgia from the Savannah River
IF FACEBOOK had existed in the Civil War, people in Savannah would have made outraged posts about the CSS Georgia. Pitched to the townsfolk as a Yankee-beating supership, the ironclad […]
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Raising the CSS Georgia
THOUGH THE Confederate Navy was massively outnumbered in the Civil War, they equaled the odds a bit through the use of major technological breakthroughs —some of which reverberated through the […]
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The Year in Review: News
1: FULL METAL JACKET Gun violence has been a part of Savannah life and lore for decades. But never before has there been such a high volume of shootings over […]
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Reader: Harbor deepening debate isn’t over
There are better-suited ports in the Southeast that should be getting federal support instead—IF accommodating larger ships is even justified.
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Congress reaches deal on SAV harbor deepening
House and Senate negotiators announced a deal Thursday night which would lead to the passing of a long-stalled water resources bill — and therefore would allow dredging of the Savannah […]
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Like lists? Here’s your harbor deepening Top Ten
Those who question the long-range consequences of SHEP believe resistance is futile. And it well may be, as a dozen lefty liberals in a church basement are hardly a threat to Georgia’s teratoid political-industrial complex.
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Question (Ports) Authority?
The Great Port Rubber Fire of ’14 represented a cautionary memo that our port comes with plenty of potential hazards.
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Houses finds harbor deepening money
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA), which authorizes the “development and maintenance of the nation’s waterway infrastructure, among other critical projects,” […]
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The Veep came to town and I didn’t even get a T-shirt
Thing is, Biden gave almost exactly the same speech earlier that morning in South Carolina, which has its own harbor deepening enterprise brewing at the Port of Charleston.
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Feedback: Harbor deepening is ‘reckless gov’t spending’
Editor, Regarding your column last week, “A deepening problem:” The Center for a Sustainable Coast shares Steve Willis’s concerns (he’s our board president). One of our major concerns, paralleling Steve’s […]
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Fast tracking disaster
I must have been temporarily brainwashed by the Kool–Aid flowing downstream from Atlanta, where state legislators have passed a new law that makes it easier for corporations to pollute just about everything.