On the heels of a Republican candidate’s drill-baby-still declaration, three Democratic gubernatorial have declared their opposition to oil drilling off Georgia’s coast. But the perceived Democratic front runner, former Gov. Roy Barnes, isn’t voicing a position. In statements I gathered over the last few days, former state House Minority Leader DuBose Porter (right) was the most [...]

The organizer of a June 26 “Hands Across the Sand” gathering on Tybee Island says BP’s recent spill underscores how important it is to protect the Georgia coast from oil drilling. I wrote Tybee resident Paul Wolff after his former state senator, Eric Johnson, who’s now running for governor, announced last week that he still backs [...]

Right whale mamas and their babies have been spotted in the endangered species calving grounds of the coast of Georgia. The Savannah Morning News reports: “Surveyors based on St. Simons Island have spotted three North Atlantic right whale calves, each flanked by its mother, off the Georgia coast since December, marking the first sightings this migratory [...]

Well, that was fast. The controversial $120 million redevelopment of parts of Jekyll Island apparently has been scuttled — one day after Gov. Sonny Perdue and others participated in a groundbreaking on the state component of the project. Critics, led by state Rep. Jeff Chapman, who represents the island’s residents, argued that an agreement between the [...]

A controversial $170 million development project in Jekyll Island state park breaks ground today, Georgia Public Broadcasting reports. The approved project is something of a compromise between the Jekyll Island Authority and developers on one hand, and current residents, good government types and conservationists on the other. While critics were able to trim some parts of the [...]