The response to Alderman Van Johnson’s post was immediate and angry, with screenshots being shared hundreds of times. The gist of most of the reactions was an insinuation that it is Johnson himself who has a poor understanding of the reality of the life of a schoolteacher.
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Westside Arena: a 50-year mistake?
WHILE THERE has been a generally positive trend in Savannah’s governance over the past several years, the decision to locate a new arena west of downtown at Stiles Avenue and […]
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Editor’s Note: Fire Fee blaze threatens incumbents
Mayor DeLoach’s success in 2015 was largely due to very high turnout in District 4, the area south of Victory Drive including Ardsley Park, which also elected Julian Miller as its representative in a blowout. DeLoach and Miller are arguably the Council members most supportive of the Fire Fee. And who are some of the voters now most upset by the Fire Fee? You guessed it.
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Editor’s Note: After the utility bill fiasco, now what?
Overarching this entire discussion is one of Savannah’s recurring themes: We are overly reliant on outside consultants to find problems and make the recommendations to move forward that we are already paying a City Manager and City staff to determine and execute.
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Editor’s Note: Devil of density is in the details
As it takes shape, we now have a bit of an inkling of Savannah’s new strategic plan: Virtually the identical plan that any politically well-connected, large-scale developer here would have. What a coincidence.
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Editor’s Note: Tony Thomas takes City Council with him to rock bottom
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: 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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Editor’s Note: Savannah’s continuing double standard on small businesses
Savannah needs to have a coherent policy which balances the very real need of residents to have input, and the very real property rights of small business investors.
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Safer streets, one gun at a time?
The accumulated 387 million manufactured in the last century means there are currently more firearms in America than people.
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Stage On Bay alcohol license vigorously opposed by Savannah City Council, neighborhood
In a contentious hearing today at the regular meeting of City Council, Mayor and Council members largely seemed to side with many residents of the Hudson Hill community in opposing […]