http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:32:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/27/word-word-processing-error/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/27/word-word-processing-error/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/27/word-word-processing-error/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/27/word-word-processing-error/feed/ 2 It was reported last week that outgoing Grady CEO Pamela Stephenson does not have all of the university degrees she apparently claims. “Ms. Stephenson earned her PH.D at the University of Michigan … and a Law degree, also at the University of Michigan.” -From a July 9 hospital press release titled “Pamela Stephenson is Good for Grady.” “In [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/20/morning-headlines-56/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/20/morning-headlines-56/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 15:48:10 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/20/morning-headlines-56/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/20/morning-headlines-56/feed/ 0 TEACHING TO THE TESTAMENT: Bible-as-literature classes clear legal hurdles in Tennessee and Georgia. FLOCK ENROLL: Atlanta is the No. 1 major metropolitan area in the nation for college enrollment growth over the last 17 years and No. 2 in number of degrees awarded. OVERRIDE: City Council takes Mayor Franklin down a notch by overriding three of her [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/14/trauma-network-bill-death-blamed-on-richardson/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/14/trauma-network-bill-death-blamed-on-richardson/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:24:07 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/14/trauma-network-bill-death-blamed-on-richardson/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/14/trauma-network-bill-death-blamed-on-richardson/feed/ 0 A surprise tragedy of the recent General Assembly – one of many such tragedies, we should note – was the failure of the trauma care network funding bill in the waning hours of the session on Friday night. Insiders tell us that, despite his public support for the network, most of the blame can be [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/18/morning-headlines-11/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/18/morning-headlines-11/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:16:02 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/18/morning-headlines-11/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/03/18/morning-headlines-11/feed/ 0 RON SAILOR JR.: State rep. pleads guilty to federal money laundering charges, is expected to resign today. FLORIDA: Abandons mail-in Democratic primary do-over, considers allowing residents to shuffleboard in their votes. TROY DAVIS: Retrial denied by state Supreme Court, despite seven of nine witnesses recanting their testimony that helped convict him of murder. CHAMBLEE SIX: Half-dozen Chinese immigrants [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/28/protesting-privatization/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/28/protesting-privatization/#comments Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:33:00 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/28/protesting-privatization/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/28/protesting-privatization/feed/ 1 GRADY COALITION RALLY DEC. 26: State Sen. Vincent Fort vows not to uncross his arms if Grady Hospital is privatized. Last Thursday, about 15 people rallied outside Grady Hospital’s main entrance to protest the hospital board’s decision to turn the longtime public hospital into a private, nonprofit enterprise. State Sen. Vincent Fort said privatizing the hospital [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/15/atlanta-blogs-today-race-man/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/15/atlanta-blogs-today-race-man/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:49:19 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/15/atlanta-blogs-today-race-man/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/15/atlanta-blogs-today-race-man/feed/ 0 Reverend Joe Beasley twice calls Senator David Shafer a “race man” and accuses him of trying to get the City of Atlanta abolished when Maynard Jackson was elected Mayor (in the early 1970s when Shafer would have been in elemetary [sic] school). You can hear it here. — Erick at Peach Pundit, on WABE-FM (90.1) series [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/atlanta-blogs-today-richardson-pelosi/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/atlanta-blogs-today-richardson-pelosi/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:00:12 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/atlanta-blogs-today-richardson-pelosi/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/atlanta-blogs-today-richardson-pelosi/feed/ 0 If Nancy Pelosi proposed we get rid of all state taxes and have the US House of Representatives decide how much of that revenue the state of Georgia got we would be up in arms. This nation was built on the premise of the government that is closest to the people works the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/another-way-to-save-grady/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/another-way-to-save-grady/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:12:06 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/another-way-to-save-grady/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/10/09/another-way-to-save-grady/feed/ 0 Just a thought: (From the front of AJC.com) Bookmark It http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/15/as-promised-a-chance-to-discuss-saving-grady/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/15/as-promised-a-chance-to-discuss-saving-grady/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:57:24 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/15/as-promised-a-chance-to-discuss-saving-grady/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/08/15/as-promised-a-chance-to-discuss-saving-grady/feed/ 0 Grady Memorial Hospital is sick. The state’s largest public hospital, its biggest resource for indigent care, its most sophisticated trauma center, its only poison center and its most significant physician-training facility faces a major budget shortfall. Some say Grady could be shuttered by year’s end. On Monday, nearly 200 people showed up at a Fulton-DeKalb Hospital [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/11/changes-at-grady/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/11/changes-at-grady/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:40:07 +0000 Mara Shalhoup http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/11/changes-at-grady/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/11/changes-at-grady/feed/ 0 On Friday, July 13, the Greater Grady Task Force will release its final recommendations for helping the beleaguered hospital get healthy. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported in late June that a draft of the recommendations, penned by a task force made up of local business leaders, called for a corporate-style shake-up: The restructuring of the Grady [...]