Morning headlines
June 20, 2008 at 10:13 am by Russell McLendon in NewsOBAMA: Debuts his first TV ad of the post-primaries campaign in Georgia and 17 other states today.
STUDY BUDDIES: Florida’s Sen. Bill Nelson and Rep. Allen Boyd have introduced a bill calling for a comprehensive study of water-management needs for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint river system, despite the fact that a three-year process to update the ACF system’s operation manuals is already under way.
LOCH MESS: Lake Lanier and Alabama’s West Point Lake and Lake Walter George are all expected to drop several feet over the next five weeks, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
FLAGPOLE MUSIC AWARDS: R.E.M. won Best Album for Accelerate last night; Flagpole interviews Peter Buck in anticipation of R.E.M.’s show at Lakewood tomorrow.
PUT UP YOUR NUKES: The Savannah River Site seals up its 7 million cubic feet of radioactive waste after 22 years of being an active dump.
FRAUDIAN SLIP: Federal prosecutors indict seven metro Atlantans in an alleged straw-buyer mortgage fraud scam, part of the FBI’s nationwide “Operation Malicious Mortgage.”
THRASHERS COACH: We at least know one thing: The Thrashers either have or haven’t hired a new head coach. (UPDATE: They have.)
MLS COMING TO ATLANTA? Arthur Blank is either looking into bringing us a new Major League Soccer team, a Multiple Listing Service or a Master’s in Library Science. I’m not sure which sounds the most boring.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:32 am
wow, a “soccer is boring” comment, way to dig deep into the playbook.
open your eyes and ears and pay attention, or you’re going to be left behind.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
People have been telling me that since the days of Kyle Rote, Jr and I am still waiting fo soccer to becoming popular for someone other than 10 years olds who haven’t figured out that football players get more chicks.
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
When Grady CEO Pam Stpehson isn’t busy trying to hide the fact that one of her Grady employees stole a wedding ring off a dead woman’s hand, she’s a state representative, missing half of the votes in this year’s session.
http://www.ajc.com/printedition/content/printedition/2008/06/19/myview2cl.html
For more than six days following the crime, Grady’s internal processes made zero progress and continually directed me to simply make a claim to recover the monetary value of the rings. Even more distressing, Grady’s interim CEO, Pam Stephenson, displayed a shocking degree of incompetence and utter lack of any demonstrable executive skill set (especially for someone paid $600,000 per year) as she attempted to sustain ineffectual damage control and to obfuscate her own lack of leadership skills and situational awareness within her own organization.
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hey Dale C! Check this out and you tell me who gets all the chicks?
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/pgStory?contentId=8216748
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/pgStory?contentId=3216398