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Entries from May 2008

“Not Enough Growth for a Suburban High School”: Are You Kidding Me?

May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Submitted by Julie Gerbsch   I know many of you found recent articles hard to believe (published in another newspaper) reporting a University of Georgia demographer’s conclusion that there isn’t “sufficient growth” in southwest and west Chatham to support a new high school.  Incredible, really, on so many levels.  To put the circumstances of this [...]

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Tags: Chatham County Government · Savannah-Chatham County Schools

Gillespie responds to Larry Peterson’s edi-trash

May 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

What follows is the candidate’s recitation of the crucial Veteran’s issue that Gillespie ACTUALLY focused on in Savannah for 20 minutes recently. Our intrepid { which not co-incidentally contains the word tepid } local political writer instead focused on an out-of-context remark after the event in an attempt… one would guess… to garner national attention [...]

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Hillary Threatens Assassination

May 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

HILLARY RAISES ASSASSINATION ISSUE DEFENDS LONG-RUNNING CAMPAIGN By GEOFF EARLE   May 23, 2008 – Hillary Clinton today brought up the assassination of Sen. Robert Kennedy while defending her decision to stay in the race against Barack Obama. “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere [...]

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Obama’s WVa Loss no big deal

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

In WVa : First of all many of these voters will and have been for 20yrs abandoning Dems in Nov. There were local races going on yesterday as well and a huge number of these ” independents ” are either hannitized or dittoheads who would never choose Hillary {nor Obama } in the fall. Secondly, these [...]

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Tags: Democratic Primary

Arena

May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

does anyone really care about our 80 Million $ investment ? 

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Tags: Savannah City Government

Lock Announces He’s Running for District Attorney

May 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – For the first time in nearly three decades, Chatham County will have a new district attorney next year. The current DA, Spencer Lawton, has decided not to run for reelection. Today, chief assistant district attorney David Lock announced he will run for that high office. Follow this link to WTOC for [...]

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Tags: District Attorney · Savannah Candidates

What Happens in this Building?

May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Reply if you know. Thanks.

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Tags: Savannah City Government

Ben Crystal Report from Associated Press

May 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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Tags: Savannah Candidates