http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/20/add-it-up-atlantas-carbon-footprint/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/20/add-it-up-atlantas-carbon-footprint/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:49:45 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=17416 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/20/add-it-up-atlantas-carbon-footprint/feed/ 0 How green is our city? A by-the-numbers glimpse. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/transportation-secretarys-announcement-deals-with-eliminating-clean-air-funds/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/transportation-secretarys-announcement-deals-with-eliminating-clean-air-funds/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:59:34 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/transportation-secretarys-announcement-deals-with-eliminating-clean-air-funds/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/29/transportation-secretarys-announcement-deals-with-eliminating-clean-air-funds/feed/ 1 Just a hunch, but that’s what one person is whispering. U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is in town today to make an announcement. Ariel Hart of the AJC provides a solid write-up about the official’s visit and background and focuses, but she focuses more on Peters’ penchant for public-private partnerships. We’re all about rumors [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:41:38 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/feed/ 0 DAMMED IF HE DOESN’T: Jimmy Carter revives an old gubernatorial quest of his to prevent three dams from being built on the Flint River. CARRYING CAPACITY: The Chicago Tribune examines recent revolutions against gun control, from Disney World to Hartsfield-Jackson to the Windy City. WHAT BROWN CAN DO FOR YOU: Medical College of Georgia researchers identify brown [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:31:57 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/feed/ 0 CLINTON: To suspend campaign for the presidential nomination Saturday; begins campaign for the vice-presidential nomination. Jimmy Carter says Obama picking her would be “the worst mistake that could be made.” PAIN IN THE GAS: Drivers are increasingly procrastinating buying gas as prices skyrocket go up, meaning they run out more. In Georgia, taxpayer-funded HERO trucks will [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/morning-headlines-60/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/morning-headlines-60/#comments Tue, 27 May 2008 14:13:43 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/morning-headlines-60/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/27/morning-headlines-60/feed/ 0 FEE FOR ALL: Atlanta City Councilman Jim Maddox proposes taxing $1 for tickets to pro sporting events and major concerts in the city to help soften the looming $140 million budget shortfall. 14TH STREET BRIDGE: Dead to us. GET OUT OF MY CAR: Between March 2007 and March 2008, American driving dropped at the steepest rate since [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/municipal-blues/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/municipal-blues/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 17:38:28 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/municipal-blues/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/municipal-blues/feed/ 2 Atlanta is getting me down. I’m losing my hope that Atlanta’s most serious chronic problems are going to improve any time soon. I’ve got the municipal blues. It’s not any one thing. It’s all the things: the city’s budget woes, crime woes, environmental woes, crap schools, and the entirely predictable botching of the Beltline’s funding scheme. And then there’s [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/metro-atlanta-smog-alert-todays-color-is-orange/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/metro-atlanta-smog-alert-todays-color-is-orange/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 15:17:57 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/metro-atlanta-smog-alert-todays-color-is-orange/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/06/metro-atlanta-smog-alert-todays-color-is-orange/feed/ 3 Gather round, all Atlantans, and breathe through a handkerchief for the rest of the day. The Clean Air Campaign has issued a Code Orange Smog Alert — meaning that the air quality in the region today is unhealthy for such sensitive segments of the population as asthmatics, the elderly and people with heart or lung [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/morning-headlines-44/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/morning-headlines-44/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 15:57:17 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/morning-headlines-44/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/morning-headlines-44/feed/ 0 GAME 6 TONIGHT: I’ve seen Celtic Pride. We have to keep Daniel Stern and Dan Akroyd away from Joe Johnson today. GANGBUSTERS: Gang experts say the NBA only drew attention to Paul Pierce’s apparent gang sign during the Celtics Game 4 loss in Atlanta by fining him for it. TEAT-TOTALING: Three out of four moms now breast-feed [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/01/morning-headlines-43/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/01/morning-headlines-43/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 15:39:44 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/01/morning-headlines-43/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/01/morning-headlines-43/feed/ 1 MAYDAY: Smog season starts today. ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPETBAG: Niagara County, New York, assuming companies in the South are too lethargic from dehydration to move elsewhere, considers venturing down here to liberate them to the Great Wet North. FLEXING ITS MUSSELS: Florida pulls the marine-life card again in response to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/mississippi-weighs-possible-suit-against-epa-georgia-stays-put/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/mississippi-weighs-possible-suit-against-epa-georgia-stays-put/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:25:27 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/mississippi-weighs-possible-suit-against-epa-georgia-stays-put/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/mississippi-weighs-possible-suit-against-epa-georgia-stays-put/feed/ 0 As if we didn’t have our hands full already — you know, there’s that whole water-sharing dilemma, as well as the potential for a border dispute with Tennessee — it’d make for great theater if Georgia decided to take a stab at the water, land and air trifecta and sue the Environmental Protection Agency for [...]