http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/15/clayton-county-school-board-fires-superintendent/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/15/clayton-county-school-board-fires-superintendent/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:27:44 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=17168 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/15/clayton-county-school-board-fires-superintendent/feed/ 0 Ousting comes months before the system tries to regain accreditation. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/24/morning-headlines-141/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/24/morning-headlines-141/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:39:01 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=6339 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/24/morning-headlines-141/feed/ 0 STAYING ALIVE: Troy Davis is alive this morning, thanks to a last-minute stay granted by the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices will reconvene Monday, and if they don’t decide to hear his case, he’s back in Georgia’s clutches. CHECK IS IN THE BAIL: Congress is listening to growing outcries to limit Wall Street executives’ lavish salaries [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/09/morning-headlines-130/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/09/morning-headlines-130/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:42:34 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/09/morning-headlines-130/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/09/09/morning-headlines-130/feed/ 0 DAVID FRANKLIN: The ex-husband of Mayor Shirley Franklin and a chief architect of the Maynard Jackson political machine died Sunday at 65. TRAVELATROCITY: Atlanta and several other U.S. cities are suing 17 online travel sites including Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia, alleging the companies have cheated the cities out of millions in taxes. REVACUEES: Gulf Coast residents who [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/29/morning-headlines-124/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/29/morning-headlines-124/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:06:46 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/29/morning-headlines-124/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/29/morning-headlines-124/feed/ 0 MCCAIN: Picks Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. He’ll introduce her in Dayton, Ohio today. ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: Barack Obama accepts the Democratic nomination for president in Denver with a speech CNN analyst David Gergen calls a “political masterpiece.” CLAYTON: School system loses accreditation, but can get it back at any point during the next [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:13:16 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/perdue-boots-clayton-county-school-board-members/feed/ 0 Adios! Per the suggestion of an administrative law judge who said four members of the Clayton County school board violated their duties under law, Gov. Sonny Perdue today removed Michelle Strong, Louise Baines-Hunter, Yolonda Everett and Sandra Scott from their posts. All nine school board members who were on the board when the Southern Association of [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:14:14 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-accreditation-mess-the-document-dump/feed/ 0 If Clayton County Schools wants to regain its accreditation status, it’ll have to jump through a lot of hoops. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the accrediting agency that stripped the system of its status this morning, released several documents related to the decision. I’m posting them below. The first is a 20-page report [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:56:32 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/clayton-county-schools-lose-accreditation/feed/ 2 UPDATE: We normally don’t correct quoted sources, but I’ve done such to the copy below because of Todd’s comment. Says the AJC’s Megan Matteucci: The 50,000-student school system is the first in the nation to lose accreditation since 1969, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools announced today. … Qualifying Clayton students will still be able to get their [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/morning-headlines-123/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/morning-headlines-123/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:55:32 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/morning-headlines-123/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/28/morning-headlines-123/feed/ 1 OBAMA: Officially becomes the Democratic nominee for president, the first black person ever nominated by a major party. He’ll give his acceptance speech tonight. MCCAIN: Has picked his running mate, whom he’ll inform of his decision today and introduce Friday in Ohio. UNDERDRIVE: As gas prices and environmental worries have driven down driving, highways and other transportation [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/morning-headlines-121/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/morning-headlines-121/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:25:26 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/morning-headlines-121/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/26/morning-headlines-121/feed/ 0 TED KENNEDY: Helps kick off the Democratic National Convention with a rousing speech, despite his terminal brain cancer. GUSTAV: Hurricane gains strength in advance of hitting Haiti. Tropical Storm Fay’s remnants continue to soak Atlanta today; the storm destroyed only about 8 percent of coastal Georgia’s sea turtle nests, though, which was less than feared. FRED CRANE: [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:55:09 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/14/morning-headlines-115/feed/ 0 SPY VS. PIE: The AP reports that Julia Child left a career as a WWII-era spy to become a chef; Child is one of several well-known Americans whose previously secret spy career was revealed this morning, as the personnel files of the pre-CIA Office of Strategic Services were declassified. SHOOTING: The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic [...]