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/2009/06/02/passport-now-required-to-return-to-us/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/02/passport-now-required-to-return-to-us/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:35:03 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=20372 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/06/02/passport-now-required-to-return-to-us/feed/ 0 Your papers, please. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/23/wheres-the-mayor-2/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/23/wheres-the-mayor-2/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:57:46 +0000 Andisheh Nouraee http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/23/wheres-the-mayor-2/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/07/23/wheres-the-mayor-2/feed/ 0 SHIRLEY FRANKLIN’S POSTCARD FROM SWITZERLAND: Wish you were here. (Photo illustration by Andisheh Nouraee & Joeff Davis) Wealth, neutrality, Alps, chocolate, cuckoo clocks, 74-function pocket knives. Switzerland has it all. This week, it even has our mayor. Fresh from a recent trip to Italy’s beautiful Lake Como, Mayor Franklin flew to Geneva on Sunday for a meeting [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/19/shirley%e2%80%99s-not-the-only-mayor-of-a-troubled-city-who-hits-the-road/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/19/shirley%e2%80%99s-not-the-only-mayor-of-a-troubled-city-who-hits-the-road/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:41:20 +0000 John F. Sugg http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/19/shirley%e2%80%99s-not-the-only-mayor-of-a-troubled-city-who-hits-the-road/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/06/19/shirley%e2%80%99s-not-the-only-mayor-of-a-troubled-city-who-hits-the-road/feed/ 0 A friend at the Detroit News spotted my column on Atlanta’s soaring crime rate and Mayor Shirley Franklin’s propensity to get the hell out of town when trouble heats up. As my column pointed out, the only city that is certifiably more dangerous than Atlanta, according to recent FBI statistics, is Detroit. It seems the [...]