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Savannah’s Springfield Canal stormwater project likely casualty of Trump cuts

Trump’s first action on becoming President was a wholesale revocation of several Biden Executive Office actions, leading to closure of many vital programs. One of these programs is called the Justice40 initiative. For the first time in our nation’s history, the Federal government has made it a goal that 40 percent of the overall benefits […]

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Government Political

Georgia Republican attack on trans kids

Now that Georgia Republicans no longer have abortion as their ‘moral cause’ they’re attacking trans people. The same people who they’ve ignored for decades but—all of a sudden!—have become the seeming greatest need and threat to Georgians! Not the price of eggs any more, is it? According to the Georgia Recorder, the GOP-controlled Senate just […]

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People Weather

A return to normalcy

We’ve been through two major weather events in the last few months in Savannah: Debby and now Helene. Our home didn’t flood during Debbie, and didn’t lose power in either system since our subdivision has buried lines. We did have several hours of power cycling and had to turn major appliances off at the breaker […]

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Places Political

On my way to writing there was a pandemic. And we moved to Georgia. And Trump.

I had such good intentions at the start of the year. I was going to lose weight, get in shape, and most of all, return to writing on a regular basis. And then the rest of 2020 hit. It started with COVID and it ends with COVID and a parade of masks and hand washes […]