http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/19/borders-reed-turn-up-heat-on-campaign-rhetoric/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/19/borders-reed-turn-up-heat-on-campaign-rhetoric/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:12:06 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=26354 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/10/19/borders-reed-turn-up-heat-on-campaign-rhetoric/feed/ 14 Borders and Reed step up the attacks in the mayor's race http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/atlanta-mayor-race-is-leading-up-to-fall-runoff/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/atlanta-mayor-race-is-leading-up-to-fall-runoff/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 22:00:29 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=19394 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/atlanta-mayor-race-is-leading-up-to-fall-runoff/feed/ 28 The Atlanta mayor's race has three co-front-runners as of now http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/ethics-complaint-dismissed-against-lisa-borders/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/ethics-complaint-dismissed-against-lisa-borders/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 20:30:15 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=19377 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/05/ethics-complaint-dismissed-against-lisa-borders/feed/ 0 City Council President Lisa Borders had been accused of improper lobbying during the 2007 General Assembly http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/06/lisa-borders-reconsidering-run-for-mayor/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/06/lisa-borders-reconsidering-run-for-mayor/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:05:21 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=16512 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/06/lisa-borders-reconsidering-run-for-mayor/feed/ 5 Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders confirms she is "reconsidering" a run for mayor. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/12/mccain-fundraiser-for-chambliss-at-191-club/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/12/mccain-fundraiser-for-chambliss-at-191-club/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:26:05 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=9088 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/12/mccain-fundraiser-for-chambliss-at-191-club/feed/ 1 McCain comes downtown Thursday for Chambliss fundraiser. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/02/lisa-borders-former-perdue-spokesman-among-targets-of-ethics-complaints/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/02/lisa-borders-former-perdue-spokesman-among-targets-of-ethics-complaints/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:35:22 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6511 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/02/lisa-borders-former-perdue-spokesman-among-targets-of-ethics-complaints/feed/ 2 Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders and a former member of Gov. Sonny Perdue’s staff have been named, along with a South Georgia construction firm, in state ethics complaints for unregistered lobbying at the Gold Dome. Neill Herring, a longtime Sierra Club lobbyist, filed the complaints with the State Ethics Commission last week. (To view Herring’s [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/mayoral-bombshell-1-sorry-to-burst-your-bubble/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/mayoral-bombshell-1-sorry-to-burst-your-bubble/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:22:40 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/mayoral-bombshell-1-sorry-to-burst-your-bubble/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/mayoral-bombshell-1-sorry-to-burst-your-bubble/feed/ 11 The departure of Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders from the Atlanta mayor’s race earlier this week has, by political strategists’ calculation, left behind a large window of opportunity for the right candidate. Specifically, we mean someone backed by the Atlanta business community – anointed by the Chamber of Commerce, as it were. Borders, a protege [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/11/lisa-borders-dropping-out-of-mayors-race/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/11/lisa-borders-dropping-out-of-mayors-race/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:46:39 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/11/lisa-borders-dropping-out-of-mayors-race/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/11/lisa-borders-dropping-out-of-mayors-race/feed/ 8 Atlanta City Council President Lisa Borders is expected to announce shortly that she will discontinue her campaign for mayor. Borders, one of the favorites in an already-crowded field of hopeful successors to Shirley Franklin, became the first declared candidate in April 2007. No, her decision has nothing to do with the Atlanta Dream’s terrible WNBA record [...]