Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Stephens, whose health issues sidelined him for the better part of three legislative sessions, made the announcement on the floor of the Georgia House on the next-to-last day of the 2021 session.
The voters of District 165, which covers Savannah s eastside and a sliver of downtown, will elect a new representative in a special election sometime later this year.
Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Savannah is an Olympic host without much of an Olympic legacy.
Savannah s Olympic memory began to fade the day in 1996 the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games dismantled its medal stand on River Street and its temporary floating marina in Wassaw Sound. ACOG left no venues to the public the launch dock for the boats at the old Sheraton on Wilmington Island was and is in private hands and there are no vestiges other than an Olympic flame sculpture on River Street.
Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Savannah) is no longer in the stop the steal camp.
In an interview that aired earlier this week on National Public Radio, Carter said he not only accepts President Joe Biden as the 2020 election winner in Georgia but added I don t believe that there was voter fraud.
Better late than never?
Carter spent more than two months challenging the election results.
Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer blogs on local topics of interest most weekday mornings in the “Savannah’s Town Square” Facebook group. The following is an excerpt from one of those posts. Join the group at Facebook.com by searching Savannah s Town Square.
Chatham Commission Chairman Chester Ellis is in midst of his first leadership test, and he s proving woefully under-prepared.
Last Friday s commission meeting, just the second of his tenure as chairman, devolved into a kangaroo court, with Ellis quasi-bullying his fellow commissioners over an unorthodox appointment of a former commissioner to the Chatham Area Transit board.
Even worse, Ellis cut off public comment on the appointment of Tabitha Odell, who is a key player in the recent controversial firing of CAT s CEO. The situation has met with public uproar, and Ellis behavior did nothing to temper the outrage.