JUST TWO DAYS after the incredibly ugly spectacle of last week’s censure hearing of Alderman Tony Thomas, City Council entered a retreat to come up with a strategic plan for […]
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Editor’s Note: Another day, another bad zoning decision
A QUESTIONABLE zoning decision by Savannah City Council is barely newsworthy these days. Like death and taxes, they seem inevitable and unavoidable. More and more good-hearted, engaged citizens I know […]
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Editor’s Note: Tony Thomas and his many enablers
If you’re mad about Thomas doing the same thing tens of thousands of others did on St. Patrick’s Day, except while representing taxpayers, I’m right there with you. But spare me the moralistic hypocrisy.
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Editor’s Note: Does City Council really need to deal with liquor licenses at all?
Some other cities have separate boards of review whose only job is to deal with alcohol licenses. This frees up elected officials to focus their time and energy elsewhere — instead of on hour-plus deliberations across multiple meetings, as we saw with the excruciatingly drawn-out case of The Stage On Bay.
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Stage On Bay liquor license quashed; Marshall Tucker Band show moved to Lucas
IN A remarkable development at this afternoon’s regular meeting, City Council voted 8-1 to deny an alcoholic beverage license to the new West Savannah music venue The Stage On Bay, […]
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Year in Review: Top Ten from Savannah news & politics
LET’S GET this out of the way: This is a roundup of the top 10 local news and politics stories from 2016. So Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton aren’t listed […]
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Editor’s Note: A Grand Jury’s mixed message
In its report on the Tony Thomas case, the Grand Jury opted to endorse some statements which frankly don’t speak particularly highly of the caliber of thought process that occurred.
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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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Savannahian You Love To Hate
One is tempted to snicker at the continuing controversy over the behavior of City Alderman Tony Thomas, involving as it does the venerable Savannah traditions of partying, sex, gossip, intrigue, […]
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Craziest Local Crime Story
One is tempted to snicker at the continuing controversy over the behavior of City Alderman Tony Thomas, involving as it does the venerable Savannah traditions of partying, sex, gossip, intrigue, […]
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Biggest Local Political Scandal
One is tempted to snicker at the continuing controversy over the behavior of City Alderman Tony Thomas, involving as it does the venerable Savannah traditions of partying, sex, gossip, intrigue, […]
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Biggest Waste of Taxpayer Money
One is tempted to snicker at the continuing controversy over the behavior of City Alderman Tony Thomas, involving as it does the venerable Savannah traditions of partying, sex, gossip, intrigue, […]