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.
Otis Johnson
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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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Editor’s Note: Armstrong/Georgia Southern merger brings fear, and many questions
The Board of Regents apparently learned a lesson from the last time Armstrong was in merger talks: Keep it all under wraps until the last possible second.
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Editor’s Note: The arts are still our best investment
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.
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Shouts from the underground
With a handwritten aesthetic and scissor-cut graphics from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Albion’s Voice resembled a cross between an 18th-century political pamphlet and a Grateful Dead poster.
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Editor’s Note: Byrne-ing down the old ways
This race proved so many assumptions wrong—and in so doing, also proved there’s a glimmer of hope for our badly abused democratic process.
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Editor’s Note: Floyd’s road less traveled
Going beyond the platitudes to see how pivotal his stint at City Hall was, and how in some ways the current occupants of that building have a ways to go to live up to his precedent.
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Desegregation at 50
Those first brave iconoclasts who crossed the color line were less welcomed than quietly ignored, and those who weren’t thrilled about their presence didn’t feel the need to stir up the kind of drama that warranted a LIFE magazine cover.
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Happy Happy Joy Joy
AFTER THE recent city elections — the results of which, let’s just say, didn’t completely satisfy everyone — I kept hearing this comment: “The people have spoken. It’s time for […]
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It’s all over but the drinking
BOTTOMS UP, y’all. It’s a good thing voters approved Sunday retail alcohol sales last week. We’ll need every possible day of drinking to dull the pain of the other election […]
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When a puff piece goes poof
SAVANNAH’S A PLACE where people don’t like to talk badly about others. At least to their faces. In most towns, publications like ours are expected to help keep the local […]
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Minority report
THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS FACEBOOK when Floyd Adams Jr. was mayor of Savannah. But if there had been, I seriously doubt a Facebook page called “Step Down, Mr. […]