http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:00:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/04/11/add-it-up-state-employees-furloughed/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/04/11/add-it-up-state-employees-furloughed/#comments Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:29:54 +0000 Andy Nelson http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=18305 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/04/11/add-it-up-state-employees-furloughed/feed/ 2 The ivory tower is safe — for now http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/24/city-hall-workers-get-no-x-mas-cheer/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/24/city-hall-workers-get-no-x-mas-cheer/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:15:59 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=11598 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/24/city-hall-workers-get-no-x-mas-cheer/feed/ 2 Atlanta city workers will have to work on Christmas Day. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/coxs-dc-bureau-chief-to-become-washington-post-ombudsman/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/coxs-dc-bureau-chief-to-become-washington-post-ombudsman/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:00:55 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10180 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/03/coxs-dc-bureau-chief-to-become-washington-post-ombudsman/feed/ 0 Two-year term with the paper comes day after Atlanta-based Cox announced it was shuttering national and international bureau in D.C. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/cox-shutting-down-dc-bureau/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/cox-shutting-down-dc-bureau/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:30:57 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10063 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/cox-shutting-down-dc-bureau/feed/ 0 International and national newsgathering office to close in April 2009. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/franklin-lays-off-222-more-workers-close-rec-centers/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/franklin-lays-off-222-more-workers-close-rec-centers/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:23:15 +0000 Scott Henry http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=10061 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/12/02/franklin-lays-off-222-more-workers-close-rec-centers/feed/ 1 Shirley Franklin lays off 222 more city workers and closes 23 recreation centers. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/hows-that-economy-treating-you/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/hows-that-economy-treating-you/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:20:30 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6442 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/25/hows-that-economy-treating-you/feed/ 0 We’re looking for stories from real, actual, genuine people who’ve been affected by the credit crisis, rising unemployment, layoffs, decreasing property values. You know? People like yourself. Got a story of your own? Or do you know someone else who has a story to tell? If so, please leave a comment (with a way to get [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/maria-saporta-takes-ajc-buyout/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/maria-saporta-takes-ajc-buyout/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:43:00 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/maria-saporta-takes-ajc-buyout/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/31/maria-saporta-takes-ajc-buyout/feed/ 5 Longtime business columnist Maria Saporta is taking the AJC buyout, according to the Atlanta Press Club. To my mind, this is a big blow to the paper. Saporta, who’s cultivated links with the business community for more than two decades and who’s dad was a well-known and well-liked Atlanta architect, understands the business, civic and political [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/ajc-to-departing-employees-shhhh/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/ajc-to-departing-employees-shhhh/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:08:32 +0000 Ken Edelstein http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/ajc-to-departing-employees-shhhh/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/07/23/ajc-to-departing-employees-shhhh/feed/ 10 This may sound odd for an organization that prides itself on the free flow of ideas, but staffers who are leaving Atlanta Journal-Constitution are being required to sign an agreement that they won’t “disparage” the paper or its management once they leave, according to several AJC employees. “I was pretty surprised to see that in there,” [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/citys-dept-of-planning-lays-off-38-workers/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/citys-dept-of-planning-lays-off-38-workers/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 17:56:48 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/citys-dept-of-planning-lays-off-38-workers/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/02/citys-dept-of-planning-lays-off-38-workers/feed/ 0 The city’s Department of Planning and Community Development — which oversees the bureaus of buildings, planning, code compliance and housing in Atlanta — was ordered to lay off 38 workers on Thursday per Mayor Shirley Franklin’s suggestions to alleviate the city’s budget shortfall. The department also eliminated 12 vacant positions, a spokesperson says. It’s still too [...]