http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:00:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/27/government-watchdog-files-another-lawsuit-against-fulton-judge/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/27/government-watchdog-files-another-lawsuit-against-fulton-judge/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:43:22 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22845 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/27/government-watchdog-files-another-lawsuit-against-fulton-judge/feed/ 6 And 'T. Jack' tells ethics watchdog to back off http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/05/private-cities-ethics-complaints-need-further-investigation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/05/private-cities-ethics-complaints-need-further-investigation/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:25:24 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10353 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/05/private-cities-ethics-complaints-need-further-investigation/feed/ 0 Ethics Commission staff needs more time to investigate complaints about unregistered lobbying for "private cities" legislation. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/03/fox5-investigates-dot-chiefs-e-mails-tonight/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/03/fox5-investigates-dot-chiefs-e-mails-tonight/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:46:14 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=8491 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/03/fox5-investigates-dot-chiefs-e-mails-tonight/feed/ 1 E-mails from years ago were written on state computers and explicit in nature. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/13/judge-bedford-hit-with-ethics-complaint-political-theater-ensues/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/13/judge-bedford-hit-with-ethics-complaint-political-theater-ensues/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:57:15 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=7182 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/10/13/judge-bedford-hit-with-ethics-complaint-political-theater-ensues/feed/ 4 Controversial Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford is the latest public official to get slapped with an ethics complaint by George Anderson, a government watchdog who’s always game for spelunking into the Open Records abyss. On Friday, Anderson, the executive director of Ethics in Government Group, requested the State Ethics Commission and the Judicial [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/speaker-glenn-richardsons-divorce-records/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/speaker-glenn-richardsons-divorce-records/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:04:16 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/speaker-glenn-richardsons-divorce-records/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/22/speaker-glenn-richardsons-divorce-records/feed/ 0 As you may have read on state politics websites and in news reports today, some of the documents from Speaker Glenn Richardson’s divorce have been unsealed after government gadfly George Anderson sued. Just got my hands on ‘em AND…they’re pretty tame. No mentions of alleged trysts or cloakroom deals for natural-gas pipelines. What they do show is [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/epds-couch-gov-sonny-perdue-dot-face-ethics-complaints/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/epds-couch-gov-sonny-perdue-dot-face-ethics-complaints/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 20:33:10 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/epds-couch-gov-sonny-perdue-dot-face-ethics-complaints/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/12/epds-couch-gov-sonny-perdue-dot-face-ethics-complaints/feed/ 0 Don’t look for this story in That Other Paper or on any of the television networks in town save for Fox5 — it ain’t there. Three months ago, Dale Russell, the station’s investigative watchdog, broke a story about the state Environmental Protection Division’s Carol Couch giving developers planning a Wal-Mart in Forsyth County a green light [...]