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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 "Savannahs Town Square." Chatham Commission Chairman Chester Ellis is in midst of his first leadership test, and hes proving woefully under-prepared. Last Fridays commission meeting, just the second of his tenure as chairman, devolved into a kangaroo co...

This is a column by Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer. Al Scott has taken to the political stage twice in his life, first at the state level, where he served in the Georgia General Assembly and as Georgia’s labor commissioner; and more recently as Chatham County’s top official, the Chatham Commission chairman. He’s not ruling out an Act III. Few caught the bombshell Scott recently dropped in the closing moments in an interview for the Difference Makers podcast. Scott discussed his po...

President-elect Joe Biden’s expected pick of Gary Gensler to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission could give Wall Street its most aggressive regulator in two decades.

Gary Gensler is expected to be Joe Biden’s pick to take over the Securities and Exchange Commission. ‘He will do things that are controversial.’

Greeting his colleagues with a fist bump, Chester Ellis took his seat as chairman of the Chatham Commission for the first time on Friday along with four new commissioners during the first meeting of the year. Ellis succeeded former Chairman Al Scott, who met his term limit for the seat. Along with Ellis, who formerly served as commissioner for District 8, new members  Larry “Gator” Rivers, Tanya Milton, Aaron Whitely and Kenneth Adams were sworn in earlier this month. They join returning c...

Athletic director discusses Georgia Southerns evolving place on the college athletics landscape Savannah Morning News Georgia Southern Athletic Director Jared Benko is our latest Difference Maker and discusses managing an athletic department during a pandemic, his plans to do more in Savannah and at the Armstrong campus and the Eagles place on the college athletics landscape. Find the latest and archived episodes of Difference Makers at SavannahNow.com/podcasts or search "Savannah Difference Ma...

Effective, humble, wise and perceptive. Those are just a few of the words friends and colleagues use to describe Al Scott. On Friday when the Chatham County Commission holds its first meeting of 2021, Scott won’t be at the helm as chairman for the first time in eight years.  Meeting his term limits for chairman, Scott took aim at Chatham County Tax Commission last year, but lost that bid to Sonya Jackson during the primary election in June. But no matter the position Scott has held over h...

Savannah Morning News Outgoing Chatham Commission Chairman Al Scott is the guest on the latest Difference Makers podcast. The local political legend reflects on a 40-plus-year career in leadership and what he envisions for Savannahs future. Find the latest and archived episodes of Difference Makers at SavannahNow.com/podcasts or search "Savannah Difference Makers" on podcast app. Past Difference Makers include Plant Riverside District developer Richard Kessler; the Creative Coasts Jennifer Bonn...

Georgia legislators seek scrutiny of jail deaths as new case emerges By Ned Parker Lee Creely is seen in this undated handout photo with his son Landon (Reuters) – Georgia lawmakers are calling for greater oversight of the Chatham County Detention Center over a string of deaths documented in a series of reports by Reuters. At least 24 inmates died over 12 years at the facility, two-thirds of them in the last seven years, as the Savannah jail’s healthcare was managed by two diffe...

Fed, Treasury Extend Main Street Lending Program Cutoff Date to Jan. 8 --Update 12/29/2020 | 01:43pm EDT Send by mail : Message : By Nick Timiraos The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve said Tuesday they had extended the cutoff date for the Main Street Lending Program from Dec. 31 to Jan. 8 to process a last-minute crush to deliver loans. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last month declined to grant an extension to several emergency-lending programs run by the Fed, including t...