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The vision thing: When Teams and Zoom won't see you through Why One Voice Wales chose StarLeaf to move meetings and training online Pictures & AssetsThe vision thing: When Teams and Zoom won't see you through Last year Zoom went from promising start-up to worldwide verb. Not to be outdone, Microsoft announced wave after wave of improvements and new features to its video collaboration app Teams. In the face of this duopoly, it's easy to forget that there are many other players out there, from Cisco's venerable WebEx, to Go2Meetings and a whole raft of alternatives. For Paul Egan, deputy chief ...

City Council could decide fate of Salvation Army shelter in West Savannah on Thursday Barbara Augsdorfer, Savannah Morning News Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson on the importance of a memorial for the 'Weeping Time' Replay Video UP NEXT The Salvation Army of Savannah should find out on Thursday afternoon if it will finally be able to move forward with its proposed transitional use shelter on Augusta Avenue. The issue has been before the City Council at least three times in the past four months. Each time it has been on the agenda, it has been tabled or removed, sometimes without explanat...

The due diligence took less than the requested 30 days and the item is once again on the council’s agenda. In his report, which is available online on the city's website at savannahga.gov, Brown includes a notation from the city's civil code which states, "It is improper and illegal for a member of a municipal council to vote upon any question brought before the council in which he is personally interested." According to the most recent filing for 2020 with the Georgia Secretary of State, Lanier is still listed as the "registered agent" for the Ivory Bay Community Development Corp. 

At the request of Savannah City Manager Michael Brown, the city council voted to again delay its vote regarding the Weeping Time property at its regular meeting on Thursday afternoon. The Salvation Army of Savannah has proposed to build a transitional shelter at 2305 Augusta Ave. near the Weeping Time property. After receiving approval from the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission in November, the Salvation Army is still awaiting the city council's approval of a special use permit before the project can move forward. The Salvation Army is sensitive to the historical sig...

The Salvation Army has served in Savannah for over 120 years in the hopes of caring for those with the greatest need. But now a few leaders with conflicting interests in the property where we hope to build a new Center of Hope are portraying us as an uncaring organization, intent on ruining a neighborhood and besmirching the memory of the Weeping Time slave auction. Let’s please put these untruths to bed so we can continue to "do the most good."  First, the property that The Salvation Army has under contract on Augusta Avenue is not “in the middle of a neighborhood” nor is it “next t...