http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/30/perdue-invites-alabama-florida-governors-to-friendly-water-wars-chat/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/30/perdue-invites-alabama-florida-governors-to-friendly-water-wars-chat/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:38:58 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=23130 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/30/perdue-invites-alabama-florida-governors-to-friendly-water-wars-chat/feed/ 3 Let's talk about that vital resource the state's largest metro area needs to survive http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/17/mayor-franklin-on-judges-water-wars-ruling-sky-is-blue/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/17/mayor-franklin-on-judges-water-wars-ruling-sky-is-blue/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:02:19 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22514 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/17/mayor-franklin-on-judges-water-wars-ruling-sky-is-blue/feed/ 8 'Water is a critical resource' http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/17/judge-rules-against-georgia-in-water-wars-case/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/17/judge-rules-against-georgia-in-water-wars-case/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:57:49 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22503 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/17/judge-rules-against-georgia-in-water-wars-case/feed/ 6 Alabama's right, says a judge with an awesome name — Lake Lanier is not metro Atlanta's water fountain http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:20:14 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/feed/ 0 What does 270 miles of traveling south and a day in Tallahassee get you? According to today’s meeting of the governors of Florida, Georgia and Alabama, just some more time. Gov. Sonny Perdue trekked down to the Sunshine State’s capital to meet with Governors Charlie Crist of Florida and Bob Riley of Alabama and, according to [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:36:47 +0000 Helen Herbst http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/feed/ 0 Everyone’s talking about Lake Lanier and its water-level woes. It is, after all, a big deal — Lake Lanier supplies water for 60 percent of the state. But I ain’t drinkin’ it. I, along with about 80,000 of my closest friends from Marietta and Cartersville, get my water from Allatoona Lake — or Lake Allatoona, to [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/01/heading-for-a-showdown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/01/heading-for-a-showdown/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:45:53 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/01/heading-for-a-showdown/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/01/heading-for-a-showdown/feed/ 3 Gov. Sonny Perdue kicked open the saloon doors in Washington, D.C., and will have a sit-down with the governors of Florida and Alabama today, as well as meeting with the Department of the Interior and the White House Council on Environmental Quality. There’s a phone-in press conference at 2:15 p.m. in which we’ll participate, so [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/alabama-tells-bush-its-not-just-mussels-that-need-lake-laniers-water/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/alabama-tells-bush-its-not-just-mussels-that-need-lake-laniers-water/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:16:43 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/alabama-tells-bush-its-not-just-mussels-that-need-lake-laniers-water/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/22/alabama-tells-bush-its-not-just-mussels-that-need-lake-laniers-water/feed/ 2 The Birmingham News reports that Alabama Gov. Bob Riley sent a letter today to President Bush asking him to deny Gov. Sonny Perdue’s recent request that the president halt the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ water releases from Lake Lanier. (Wow, that was a lot of nouns.) Riley says areas of his state were proactive [...]