Local business leaders have made one more plea to Savannah and Chatham County officials to work together to maintain a joint Savannah-Chatham police department. In a letter submitted last week to members of the Chatham County Commission and the Savannah City Council, representatives of the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce, the Savannah Downtown Business Association, the Savannah Economic Development Authority and the Tourism Leadership Council said they polled their membership and found an overwhelming preference for keeping the Savannah-Chatham police department merged.

Why are Democrats protecting the Beltway smear-specialist firm Fusion GPS? Specifically, why are the party's senators supporting Fusion chief Glenn Simpson in his refusal to say who paid to get that infamous President Trump-smearing "Russian dossier" drawn up? As The Wall Street Journal's Kimberly A. Strassel notes, Dem senators even passed on the chance to publicly question Jared Kushner and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort , rather than also expose Simpson to public questioning. Maybe Democrats simply didn't want anything to mess up their "collusion" narrative.