http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:01:42 +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/2008/09/02/city-council-overrides-mayors-veto-on-fire-station-no-7/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/02/city-council-overrides-mayors-veto-on-fire-station-no-7/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:52:53 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/02/city-council-overrides-mayors-veto-on-fire-station-no-7/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/02/city-council-overrides-mayors-veto-on-fire-station-no-7/feed/ 0 Despite warnings of decreased public services and reassurances that its shuttering wouldn’t affect response times, the Atlanta City Council today voted 11-3 to override Mayor Shirley Franklin’s veto of their plan to re-open Fire Station No. 7 in Southwest Atlanta. The council’s plan involves sluicing $1.12 million from various municipal departments to pay for the historic station’s [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/18/city-fire-station-flare-up/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/18/city-fire-station-flare-up/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:41:50 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/18/city-fire-station-flare-up/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/18/city-fire-station-flare-up/feed/ 1 In a few hours, the latest round of head-butting between the Atlanta City Council and Mayor Shirley Franklin will commence. This time, the issue is the recently shuttered Fire Station #7, which the mayor ordered closed in July as part of $21.6 million in city budget cuts. Located on Whitehall Street just south of the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/15/atlanta-blogs-today-8/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/15/atlanta-blogs-today-8/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:56:54 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/15/atlanta-blogs-today-8/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/15/atlanta-blogs-today-8/feed/ 1 — Griftdrift returns from a snorkeling adventure in the Gulf of Mexico to weigh in with a spot-on analysis of Secretary of State Karen Handel’s decision to remove PSC Commission candidate Jim Powell from the ballot, and a judge’s subsequent decision to put him back on the ballot. —Lori posts a pictorial tribute to Fire Station [...]