IF HE LOOKS familiar, that’s because he is. He’s called Savannah home since 1980, when he began serving as Assistant City Manager. He left in 1989 to take the City […]
MIchael Brown
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A chat with CAT
Chatham Authority Transit has been riding that line (pun intended) through the pandemic, working on solutions to keep the buses rolling while also keeping passengers and employees safe
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Editor’s Note: Requiem for a City Manager
The simple truth is that any successful City Manager must also build public trust, just as an elected official would. Possibly even more so, since they’re really the one at the helm of the ship, that does the hiring and firing in the trenches.
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Editor’s Note: The Mother Of All Lawsuits
Because of the remarkable scope of the lawsuit—four plaintiffs, 15 defendants, and a narrative going back to the mid-‘90s—it has potential to be the Rosetta Stone, the Holy Grail, linking the days of the Jivens crime syndicate and today’s Willie Lovett-era police corruption.
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#TheTruthAboutMattBlack
‘You do enough of this kind of work and you realize that a lot of people involved in the system have some kind of mental health concern and that the system is completely ill-equipped to deal with it,’ says the family’s attorney Mark O’Mara.
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State violence & the ‘new Jim Crow’
Citizen violence is treated differently from state violence.
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Editor’s Note: Ferguson and the future
Georgia law enforcement ranks third in the U.S. in receiving surplus Pentagon arms and equipment.
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Michael Brown to chair Catholic gala
Former City Manager Michael Brown will be Honorary Chairman of the 13th Annual Cathedral Heritage Gala, held on Saturday evening November 23. The Gala raises funds for the preservation and […]
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Who’s really to blame for city manager fiasco?
THERE ARE TWO KINDS of bullies in this world: 1) The bullies who swagger up to you, stick their finger in your chest, and take your lunch money; 2) The […]
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Managing expectations
Unless you’ve spent the last couple of weeks under a rock, you know that former Savannah City Manager Michael Brown is once again a former manager. He recently resigned from […]
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Five minutes to midnight in this garden
The plot of land on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 32nd Street hasn’t looked like the community garden it was intended to be. Although attempts have […]
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How Green is your ville?
MY FAMILY and I got out of town for a few days last week, camping up in the northwest corner of South Carolina. On the way back home we stopped […]