http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf Atlanta news and views, one slice at a time Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:27:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/27/morning-headlines-122/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/27/morning-headlines-122/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:50:54 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/27/morning-headlines-122/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/08/27/morning-headlines-122/feed/ 3 CLINTON: Addresses the Democratic National Convention by pleading for unity in supporting Obama, telling her supporters, “I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?” Bill speaks tonight, along with Biden. GLITCH, PLEASE: A computer glitch at an FAA facility south of Atlanta is blamed for delaying hundreds of flights across [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/morning-headlines-80/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/morning-headlines-80/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:37:45 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/morning-headlines-80/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/25/morning-headlines-80/feed/ 0 EVERGLADE PLUG-IN: United States Sugar agrees to sell 187,000 acres in the Everglades, and all of the company’s other assets, to the state of Florida for $1.75 billion, which will allow natural water flow from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay for the first time since the 1890s. OBAMA: Leads McCain in two polls by more than [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/06/morning-headlines-67/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/06/morning-headlines-67/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:37:00 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/06/morning-headlines-67/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/06/morning-headlines-67/feed/ 0 OBAMA AND CLINTON: Meet in Washington. PREZ DISPENSER: Georgia has six public universities, including Georgia Tech and Georgia State, that have recently lost their presidents and are searching for new ones before fall classes begin. TRAINING DAY: Gwinnettians will vote in the July 15 primary whether to pay a penny sales tax for MARTA service in the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:31:57 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/05/morning-headlines-66/feed/ 0 CLINTON: To suspend campaign for the presidential nomination Saturday; begins campaign for the vice-presidential nomination. Jimmy Carter says Obama picking her would be “the worst mistake that could be made.” PAIN IN THE GAS: Drivers are increasingly procrastinating buying gas as prices skyrocket go up, meaning they run out more. In Georgia, taxpayer-funded HERO trucks will [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/03/morning-headlines-64/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/03/morning-headlines-64/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:47:02 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/03/morning-headlines-64/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/03/morning-headlines-64/feed/ 0 CAMPAIGN RELIEF: Clinton is expected to concede the delegate race to Obama today. * She’s saying she’ll “do whatever it takes” to put a Democrat in the White House, which was taken by Obama supporters as a hint she’d accept a VP offer. * UPDATE: Now the Clinton campaign denies AP reports that she will concede [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/23/morning-headlines-59/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/23/morning-headlines-59/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 15:31:08 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/23/morning-headlines-59/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/23/morning-headlines-59/feed/ 0 VIRAL MARKETING: A congressional investigation concludes the Bush administration used a flawed study when it said it would be fine to relocate research on the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease from an isolated island lab to mainland sites near livestock, such as Athens. Also, National Grange argues moving the lab near livestock would make it an [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/21/morning-headlines-57/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/21/morning-headlines-57/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 14:28:25 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/21/morning-headlines-57/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/21/morning-headlines-57/feed/ 4 ‘WITHIN REACH’: Obama gives a quasi-victory speech in Iowa without actually declaring victory, after Clinton runs away with Kentucky and he wins Oregon, leaving him about 70 delegates shy of securing the nomination. HAMILTON JORDAN: The right-hand man of President Jimmy Carter, and part of the “Georgia Mafia,” dies at his home in Atlanta at the [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/19/morning-headlines-55/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/19/morning-headlines-55/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 15:24:53 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/19/morning-headlines-55/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/19/morning-headlines-55/feed/ 1 MONEYMAKER SHAKEN: McCain, having just lost a major fundraiser, will turn to the Republican Party for funds to combat the Obama fundraising onslaught this fall. Clinton is expected to win Kentucky tomorrow, will likely be nullified by Obama winning Oregon. CLAYTON: Students in accreditation-endangered schools can soon apply for corporate-funded scholarships to attend private schools, thanks [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/14/morning-headlines-52/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/14/morning-headlines-52/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 15:58:38 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/14/morning-headlines-52/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/14/morning-headlines-52/feed/ 0 CLINTON: Wins West Virginia; Obama courts bluer collars. LEAVE IT TO BEAZER: Atlanta-based Beazer Homes announces it lost more than $400 million in fiscal 2007. It’s also still the target of federal investigations over its mortgage lending practices. MARRIOT MARQUIS: The 52-story downtown hotel was evacuated last night, with no reported injuries, after a fire created a [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/morning-headlines-51/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/morning-headlines-51/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 14:39:17 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/morning-headlines-51/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/05/13/morning-headlines-51/feed/ 0 CHINA EARTHQUAKE: Death toll has passed 12,000 from Monday’s 7.9-magnitude quake, with more than 18,000 buried under rubble in just one city. ATTRACTING RETENTION: Only 12 percent of embattled Clayton County’s teachers are leaving the school system, which is lower than some administrators had feared. BATTLE OF ‘WITZ: Emory political scientist Alan Abramowitz writes a Washington Post [...]