Entries Categorized as 'Government'

City Council votes for 10 year recycling contract

Date August 1, 2008

In yesterday’s Savannah City Council Meeting, a 10 year contract with Pratt Recycling was approved. SCAD’s student newspaper offered the first comprehensive report on the council vote. The Savannah Morning News followed this morning.

We get what we pay for

Date July 31, 2008

I admit I was happy to see the dreadful City Market Parking garage demolished. It sat like a giant concrete machine gun battery right in the middle of one of Savannah’s busiest commercial and entertainment areas. And I’m excited about the plans for Ellis Square.
Still, I can’t help but note the figures reported by local […]

Tony Thomas talks trash

Date July 28, 2008

I was recently watching a long-running reality television series on Comcast cable channel 8. TV Guide described the most recent episode of “Savannah City Council Meeting” as a “regular meeting of Savannah’s mayor and aldermen.” The episode I watched was taped before a live studio audience on July 17.
Near the end, Tony Thomas—who joined […]

The myth of the environag

Date July 21, 2008

Some of my fellow citizens have written letters to the editor of the Savannah Morning News complaining about high gasoline prices. The vast majority of these advocate offshore drilling and/or cracking down on shadowy speculators, who are allegedly driving up the price of oil. The beauty of both these suggestions that they conveniently allow us […]

Imagination

Date July 9, 2008

Last night, creative city making champion Charles Landry spoke to a packed house. I had the pleasure of being in the audience along with most of the usual suspects (govt., real estate development, business, downtownies, a few artists & SCAD folk) . . . you were probably there too. He was worth standing […]