http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/16/speakeasy-with-ken-wright/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/16/speakeasy-with-ken-wright/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:45:38 +0000 Curt Holman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10637 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/16/speakeasy-with-ken-wright/feed/ 3 Ken Wright, the first mayor of Dunwoody, has offered to donate his first year's salary to Stage Door Players. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/atlanta-blogs-today-21/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/atlanta-blogs-today-21/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:39:48 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/atlanta-blogs-today-21/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/01/atlanta-blogs-today-21/feed/ 0 — Andre Walker at Georgia Politics Unfiltered gives a rather tepid apology for failing to disclose he was working for the campaign of U.S. Rep David Scott, D-Atlanta, even as he was blogging about Scott’s race. Should he have made that disclosure from the beginning? Probably so, says Walker. But “probably” isn’t good enough. Isn’t [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/atlanta-blogs-today-12/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/atlanta-blogs-today-12/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:06:38 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/atlanta-blogs-today-12/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/21/atlanta-blogs-today-12/feed/ 0 — Al Gore gives a speech that says we need to wean ourselves off petroleum in the next 10 years, and ATLMalcontent is skeptical. He thinks Gore is being rather hysterical. — Gore is definitely against new off-shore oil drilling. But our governor, Sonny Perdue, thinks it’s a swell idea. Reporter-Cub gives us a reality check: [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:24:10 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/16/morning-headlines-94/feed/ 0 RUNSOFF: Jim Martin and Vernon Jones will face off in a runoff Aug. 5 to determine who faces Saxby Chambliss in November; Burrell Ellis and Stan Watson will also have a runoff in the DeKalb CEO race; the Fulton County sheriff’s race will be running off to decide whether incumbent Myron Freeman or retired FBI [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/great-theory-on-dunwoody-lawsuit/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/great-theory-on-dunwoody-lawsuit/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:15:57 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/great-theory-on-dunwoody-lawsuit/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/08/great-theory-on-dunwoody-lawsuit/feed/ 1 The DeKalb Commission is dealing this morning with a resolution to use legal action to block the proposed city of Dunwoody. I pointed out in a blog yesterday that, because of recent legal precedents, such an effort would be doomed to failure. But that depends on what you’re trying to achieve. Reader John Heneghan has [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/santayana-be-damned-over-dunwoody/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/santayana-be-damned-over-dunwoody/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:19:59 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/santayana-be-damned-over-dunwoody/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/07/santayana-be-damned-over-dunwoody/feed/ 3 The Spanish-born philosopher Santayana is best known for coining the aphorism, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s a maxim unlikely to go out of style because there’s always an example to give it currency. Which brings us to DeKalb. At tomorrow morning’s county board meeting, Commissioner Lee May will introduce [...]