Hotel-condo developer Sean Cummings, who is spearheading the post-Katrina effort to rejuvenate New Orleans' riverfront, is among business and cultural leaders rallying in support of Constance McMillen, the 18-year-old Mississippi senior whose challenge to the Itawamba County School Board's policy against same-sex dates resulted in cancellation of her school's prom.
The Clarion-Ledger reported that Cummings offered to transport Itawamba Agricultural High School students by bus to one of his properties for a prom free of charge. The newspaper also reported that Canadian film director Paul Saltzman offered to provide a screening of his documentary Prom Night in Mississippi as ...
The principals in the Sea Island Company would probably contest that assertion, arguing that since its opening in 1928 with the Cloister Hotel as an anchor on the south end of Sea Island, Georgia, the resort on the edge of the Atlantic has always been a well-run enterprise. In a generous mood, the Scion of Sea Island, might well suggest that there’s some confusion about the Sea Island appendage to St. Simons and the Jekyll Island Club across the Sound to the South. And, indeed, that Jekyll fell on hard times during the first great depression and was eventually acquired ...
One of the ironies of Barack Obama's presidency is that the South, the red island that rejected his election so vigorously in 2008, may wind up being the place that makes a cornerstone of his agenda work. The South is becoming a major player in the shift to the Green energy economy that Obama advocates. Georgia Tech researchers, for instance, have recorded significant advancements in both wind and solar technology. Two Virginia firms are among the first companies to apply for federal permits to set up offshore wind turbines. North Georgia carpet mills are leading the way in recycling industrial ...
Georgia, like most states, is in a financial bind. Revenues have been falling for two years, financial reserves are exhausted, budgets have been trimmed, federal stimulus aid has been spent, and some fees and fines have been increased. Now, facing another billion dollar shortage, legislators in Atlanta are trying to figure out the where, when, how, and what to squeeze out of the state budget.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, as the case may be, small government, fiscal conservatives, govern our state. State Senator Chip Pearson (R- Woodstock) is telling us that lean times call for a lean budget. Personally, I thought that ...
Some potential visitors are telling Tennessee tourism officials they won't visit the state after the CEO of the Tennessee Tourism Association sent out an e-mail comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee. "And I can't say I blame any of them," Susan Whitaker, commissioner of the the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development told The Tennessean. "We certainly feel this was inexcusable and unacceptable."
So inexcusable that the tourism association on Monday removed Walt Baker as CEO and severed ties with his marketing firm, Mercatus Communications. Baker said it was just a little joke -- a little joke that ...
For those of us old enough to remember the administration of South Carolina Governor James Burrows Edwards in the late 1970s the notion of massive layoffs of public employees is not new. Thousands of jobs were RIFed (reduction in force) during Edwards' administration. The reductions were due to the simultaneous fall in projected tax and other revenues and the flattening of federal money coming into the state.
The difference between the employee layoffs then and those projected for the coming years is those job losses were primarily due to cyclical economic events and these to come are due primarily to structural ...
The careers of two highly regarded and celebrated men came to surprise endings this week in Charlotte.
As reported in the Charlotte Observer, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger flew his last commercial flight for US Airways, landing his short hop run from Ft. Lauderdale into the Queen City on Wednesday. He received a water cannon salute by the Charlotte/Douglas International Airport Emergency crew.
Sully, of course, is the “Miracle on the Hudson” pilot who safely belly-flopped the ill fated flight 1549 into the icy river last year, saving all aboard. Sully is hanging it up to lobby for improved flight safety and stricter ...
What if the Devil and the Pope made a pact to take over the world with a Eucharist wafer? That, according to WBIR.com in Knoxville, Tennessee, is the theme of "The Death Cookie," one of the booklets handed out at Pigeon Forge High School by a member of Conner Heights Baptist Church. "It says that our Eucharist is of the devil," Father Jay Flaherty of Holy Cross Catholic Church told WBIR.
Conner Heights pastor Jonathan Hatcher couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. "Our goal," he told WBIR, "is not to spread nor to start violence, not to spread hatred, ...
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