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/2008/08/12/morning-headlines-113/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/12/morning-headlines-113/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:00:44 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/12/morning-headlines-113/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/12/morning-headlines-113/feed/ 0 GOLD RUSH: American swimmer Michael Phelps wins his third gold medal of the 2008 Olympics, his ninth overall, which ties the world record for most career gold medals in Olympic history. He has a chance for two more golds Wednesday morning. RUSSIA VS. GEORGIA: Russia announced today that it will stop attacking Georgia, but Georgian leaders [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:41:38 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/28/morning-headlines-102/feed/ 0 DAMMED IF HE DOESN’T: Jimmy Carter revives an old gubernatorial quest of his to prevent three dams from being built on the Flint River. CARRYING CAPACITY: The Chicago Tribune examines recent revolutions against gun control, from Disney World to Hartsfield-Jackson to the Windy City. WHAT BROWN CAN DO FOR YOU: Medical College of Georgia researchers identify brown [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/morning-headlines-85/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/morning-headlines-85/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:48:03 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/morning-headlines-85/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/morning-headlines-85/feed/ 0 WITHDRAWAL METHOD: Third of three candidates for president of Georgia State withdraws his name from consideration, leaving no active candidates. STORK LIFT: South Georgia’s endangered wood stork is making a comeback, having doubled the number of nests found last year, according to the DNR’s Wildlife Resources Division. DOT: Settles sexual harassment charges against two former board members [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/guns-in-the-airport-a-lawyers-perspective/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/guns-in-the-airport-a-lawyers-perspective/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:23:34 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/guns-in-the-airport-a-lawyers-perspective/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/02/guns-in-the-airport-a-lawyers-perspective/feed/ 7 The pro-gun group GeorgiaCarry.org filed suit in federal court yesterday claiming the city of Atlanta cannot ban state firearms license holders from carrying weapons in the Hartsfield-Jackson terminal. Last night I spoke to the group’s president, attorney Edward Stone, who revealed one of the group’s possible legal strategies against the city. As you might (not) have read, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/22/morning-headlines-58/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/22/morning-headlines-58/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 15:02:34 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/22/morning-headlines-58/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/22/morning-headlines-58/feed/ 0 ARTHUR TESLER: Sentenced to five years this morning for lying to investigators about the fatal 2006 shooting of Kathryn Johnston. BRAVES FAN DIES: Falls from the upper deck during the eighth inning of Wednesday night’s game. GUN TRIAL: Smyrna gun shop owner Jay Wallace is in New York this week, preparing for his legal showdown with NYC [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/15/morning-headlines-53/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/15/morning-headlines-53/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 15:24:12 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/15/morning-headlines-53/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/15/morning-headlines-53/feed/ 0 JOHN EDWARDS: Endorses Obama. TB LAND: Georgia’s reputation for rogue tuberculosis patients is bolstered by a Covington man arrested and quarantined for not obeying doctor’s orders to stay at home after TB diagnosis. TAKE A MULLIGAN: Marietta racist Mike Norman has ordered 100 more of his blatantly race-baiting “Obama in ‘08″ T-shirts to sell at his bar, [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/27/word-%e2%80%98dropping-their-chicken-wings%e2%80%99/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/27/word-%e2%80%98dropping-their-chicken-wings%e2%80%99/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:00:13 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/27/word-%e2%80%98dropping-their-chicken-wings%e2%80%99/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/27/word-%e2%80%98dropping-their-chicken-wings%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and Georgia Restaurant Association Executive Director Ron Wolf are among those urging Gov. Sonny Perdue to veto legislation that will allow Georgians with concealed weapons permits to carry guns in restaurants serving alcohol. “How do you enforce that? We’re not going to frisk them for a gun.” -Wolf, speaking to the Gainesville Times [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/08/georgia-leaders-guns-are-awesome-except-around-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/08/georgia-leaders-guns-are-awesome-except-around-us/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:00:28 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/08/georgia-leaders-guns-are-awesome-except-around-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/08/georgia-leaders-guns-are-awesome-except-around-us/feed/ 0 According to the fine print on the back of Georgia gun permits, it’s currently illegal to carry an “explosive compound, firearm, or knife” to “athletic or sporting events, churches or church functions, political rallies or functions, publicly owned or operated buildings, or establishments at which alcoholic beverages are sold [sic] for consumption on the premises.” On [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/morning-headlines-23/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/morning-headlines-23/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:44:53 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/morning-headlines-23/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/03/morning-headlines-23/feed/ 1 PEABODYS: Winners of the 67th annual media awards are announced at UGA, including “60 Minutes,” “The Colbert Report,” “Planet Earth,” and CNN, ABC News, CBS News and NPR. Not among the winners, as Spacey Gracey notes at Peach Pundit, is FOX News. TED TURNER: Tells PBS’s Charlie Rose that global warming could kill “most of the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/31/in-georgia-we-love-our-guns/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/31/in-georgia-we-love-our-guns/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:25:30 +0000 Scott Freeman http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/31/in-georgia-we-love-our-guns/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/31/in-georgia-we-love-our-guns/feed/ 2 It should come to no one’s surprise that Georgia picked up an abysmal report card from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. In fact, out of a possible 100 score, Georgia came in at nine points. The organization was founded by Jim Brady after he and President Reagan were shot by John Hinckley Jr. [...]