http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 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/2007/10/24/florida-to-bush-deny-georgias-request/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/24/florida-to-bush-deny-georgias-request/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:07:17 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/24/florida-to-bush-deny-georgias-request/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/24/florida-to-bush-deny-georgias-request/feed/ 1 Alabama followed Florida’s lead today, asking President Bush to deny Gov. Sonny Perdue’s request to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ release of water from Lake Lanier. Citing the “profound socioeconomic” effect such an act would have on Apalachicola River and Bay’s commercial fishing industry, Florida Gov. Charles Crist told President  Bush in a letter [...]