BurningbirdStories related to Savannah and Georgia, where I currently live
No community likes to lose jobs, and the 1100 jobs lost with International Paper closing two mills in the Savannah area is going to be painful. But let’s stop pretending that International Paper has been a good neighbor, because this just isn’t true. International Paper has been one of the largest industrial users of water […]
Recently I did another run through of the doge.gov listing of office closures. The five Social Security offices in our region that were to be closed had been narrowed to one, in Columbus, a week ago. In today’s list of lease closings, however, none of the five are now showing up with closures. The removal of the […]
Next Monday the annual Savannah St. Patrick’s Day parade makes its way down our historic streets. The parade is now celebrating its 201st anniversary, an extraordinary achievement. And though it has had a reputation for being one of the biggest “kiss me I’m Irish” bashes in the country, the wild parties and uncontrolled drinking in […]
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 […]
People living across a state line from each other but impacted by the same disaster would receive drastically different help. Does this sound fair to you?