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/2009/05/20/proposed-washington-county-coal-plant-loses-two-more-investors/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/20/proposed-washington-county-coal-plant-loses-two-more-investors/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 12:59:58 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=19932 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/05/20/proposed-washington-county-coal-plant-loses-two-more-investors/feed/ 2 Total of four utilities back out of coalition to build $2.2 billion project in Middle Georgia http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/05/georgia-lawmakers-fail-to-pay-taxes/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/05/georgia-lawmakers-fail-to-pay-taxes/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:27:29 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=16521 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/05/georgia-lawmakers-fail-to-pay-taxes/feed/ 0 Nearly 10 percent of state lawmakers failed to file state or federal taxes. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/04/perdues-hometown-buddies-puzzled-by-21-million-loan/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/04/perdues-hometown-buddies-puzzled-by-21-million-loan/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:01:19 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=14098 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/02/04/perdues-hometown-buddies-puzzled-by-21-million-loan/feed/ 1 No one has any idea governor took out loan that's due next month, Travis Fain reports. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/how-georgia-dot-plans-to-end-delays/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/how-georgia-dot-plans-to-end-delays/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:52:11 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/how-georgia-dot-plans-to-end-delays/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/13/how-georgia-dot-plans-to-end-delays/feed/ 0 S. Heather Duncan at the Macon Telegraph has an excellent article today about the always-sexy, superhot XXX topic of “project prioritization” — in other words, what projects the state Department of Transportation decides to do and when they decide to do ‘em. An agency spokesperson says the days of “kissing the ring” — local officials [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/18/the-most-apt-description-of-the-statewide-water-plan-uproar/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/18/the-most-apt-description-of-the-statewide-water-plan-uproar/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:49:48 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/18/the-most-apt-description-of-the-statewide-water-plan-uproar/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/18/the-most-apt-description-of-the-statewide-water-plan-uproar/feed/ 0 … comes from an editorial in Sunday’s Macon Telegraph. A last-minute change in the statewide water plan would allocate the resource to different parts of Georgia based on “service delivery regions” — areas that are not based on watersheds but instead on what critics call purely economic concerns and, in the words of the LaGrange [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/12/the-water-plan-and-questions-unanswered/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/12/the-water-plan-and-questions-unanswered/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:56:23 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/12/the-water-plan-and-questions-unanswered/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/12/the-water-plan-and-questions-unanswered/feed/ 1 The statewide water plan that is being discussed — be sure to get your comments in because they close at the end of today — has thrown kerosene onto the “Atlanta-is-an-all-consuming-monster” argument that has echoed for years throughout Georgia. And a last-minute change to the plan by the state that critics viewed as sharing water [...]