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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 "Savannah's Town Square." Chatham Commission Chairman Chester Ellis is in midst of his first leadership test, and he's proving woefully under-prepared. Last Friday's commission meeting, just the second of his tenure as chairman, devolved into a kangaroo court, with Ellis quasi-bullying his fellow commissioners over an unorthodox appointment of a forme...

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 political career for close to an hour, culminating in the final question: What's next as far as your p...

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 commission members Helen Stone, Bobby Lockett, Pat Farrell and Dean Kicklighter.  One of the first i...