http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/19/investigating-vernon-land/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/19/investigating-vernon-land/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:42:30 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/19/investigating-vernon-land/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/19/investigating-vernon-land/feed/ 2 Three of DeKalb’s seven commissioners have requested a criminal investigation into squirrelly purchasing practices that allowed two high-tech companies to be paid nearly a half-million dollars for county work without the required commission approval. Late last year, it was discovered that the county’s Information Services Department had overspent its budget by a cool $1.4 million [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/14/toilet-wars%c2%a9-dekalb-retrofit-vote-will-happen-this-tuesday/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/14/toilet-wars%c2%a9-dekalb-retrofit-vote-will-happen-this-tuesday/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:12:32 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/14/toilet-wars%c2%a9-dekalb-retrofit-vote-will-happen-this-tuesday/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/14/toilet-wars%c2%a9-dekalb-retrofit-vote-will-happen-this-tuesday/feed/ 1 (Photo courtesy Stock Exchange) Yes, just a couple of days ago I said it would be two weeks, but now I’m hearing from sources and the commission that the controversial retrofit legislation that is proposed in DeKalb County will be voted on this Tuesday. This was confirmed by Commissioner Jeff Rader’s office today. Chip Ivey of the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/11/retrofits-in-dekalb-two-more-weeks-residents/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/11/retrofits-in-dekalb-two-more-weeks-residents/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:27:34 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/11/retrofits-in-dekalb-two-more-weeks-residents/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/11/retrofits-in-dekalb-two-more-weeks-residents/feed/ 0 First, an apology for my post last week encouraging readers to attend a DeKalb County Commission meeting that I misinterpreted as a vote but was actually a public hearing. If I ever do that again, rest assured that I’ll be at the meeting and awaiting beat-downs from angry residents whom I may have misled. Again, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/05/dekalb-retrofit-legislation-vote-happens-tonight/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/05/dekalb-retrofit-legislation-vote-happens-tonight/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:30:53 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/05/dekalb-retrofit-legislation-vote-happens-tonight/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/05/dekalb-retrofit-legislation-vote-happens-tonight/feed/ 1 Tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Maloof Auditorium in downtown Decatur, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners is expected to vote on an ordinance that requires homes with pre-1993 plumbing to be retrofit with water-saving fixtures before they are resold. Supporters of the ordinance, such as DeKalb Commissioner Jeff Rader, say water-saving fixtures could save [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/28/dekalb-commissioner-retrofit-legislation-in-jeopardy/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/28/dekalb-commissioner-retrofit-legislation-in-jeopardy/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:11:20 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/28/dekalb-commissioner-retrofit-legislation-in-jeopardy/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/28/dekalb-commissioner-retrofit-legislation-in-jeopardy/feed/ 12 A proposed ordinance requiring homes in DeKalb County to be retrofitted with water-saving plumbing fixtures before they are resold is in jeopardy of being quashed unless it gains more public support. That’s the take of DeKalb County Commissioner Jeff Rader, who earlier this morning sent out an impassioned e-mail to various environmentalists and members of [...]