http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:00:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/06/word-where-there%e2%80%99s-smoke-%e2%80%a6/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/06/word-where-there%e2%80%99s-smoke-%e2%80%a6/#comments Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:36:50 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/06/word-where-there%e2%80%99s-smoke-%e2%80%a6/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/06/word-where-there%e2%80%99s-smoke-%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 Last week, City Council voted to override Mayor Shirley Franklin’s decision to shutter Atlanta’s oldest fire station as part of a round of budget cuts. Despite council’s vote to fund the station, the decision to re-open it rests with the mayor — and herroner ain’t budging. “Why would the mayor just let this money sit in [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/beltline-spending-plans-advance-to-city-council/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/beltline-spending-plans-advance-to-city-council/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:52:45 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/beltline-spending-plans-advance-to-city-council/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/beltline-spending-plans-advance-to-city-council/feed/ 0 Terri Montague looked disappointed. The CEO of Atlanta Beltline Inc., the nonprofit agency tasked with planning and building the 22-mile project, stood before the Atlanta City Council’s finance committee on Wednesday to present how the group planned to spend an estimated $117 million that was to be generated from the first round of TAD bonds. Councilmember [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/22/word-%e2%80%98campaign-to-discredit-me%e2%80%99/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/22/word-%e2%80%98campaign-to-discredit-me%e2%80%99/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:00:57 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/22/word-%e2%80%98campaign-to-discredit-me%e2%80%99/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/22/word-%e2%80%98campaign-to-discredit-me%e2%80%99/feed/ 3 Atlanta City Councilwoman Felicia Moore introduced legislation calling for council oversight of the city’s involvement in the Atlanta Housing Authority’s plans to demolish public housing. “[This] ordinance is to make sure in the future it’s clear by code there’s an understanding the Council is the governing authority of the City . . . ” — Moore, as [...]