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/2009/07/23/perdue-no-to-conservation-legislation-yes-to-water-wars-appeal/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/23/perdue-no-to-conservation-legislation-yes-to-water-wars-appeal/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:22:55 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=22789 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/07/23/perdue-no-to-conservation-legislation-yes-to-water-wars-appeal/feed/ 1 Appoints Georgia Power CEO as "quarterback" in multi-pronged approach to use Lake Lanier http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/17/lake-lanier-levels-all-downhill-from-here/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/17/lake-lanier-levels-all-downhill-from-here/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:38:38 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/?p=17245 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/17/lake-lanier-levels-all-downhill-from-here/feed/ 0 Metro region's main source of drinking water's levels might face another below-normal year. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/morning-headlines-74/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/morning-headlines-74/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:16:35 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/morning-headlines-74/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/06/17/morning-headlines-74/feed/ 0 LEAVEITTOWN: The reeling housing market is accelerating Americans’ interest in New Urbanism, helping reverse the march toward suburbia that began post-WWII with the Levittown burbs. AN INCONVENIENT YOUTH: Al Gore takes the stage with Barack Obama in Detroit to endorse the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, lending his enormous party clout to the young upstart, albeit a [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/17/morning-headlines-33/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/17/morning-headlines-33/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:48:44 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/17/morning-headlines-33/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/17/morning-headlines-33/feed/ 0 UNHAPPY AS A CLAM: Mussels, north Floridians will suffer from Corps of Engineers’ new water proposal, says a Florida congressman, while Lake Lanier Association president says the plan doesn’t go far enough. LEGAL INJECTION: SCOTUS dismisses challenge to constitutionality of Kentucky’s lethal injection procedure, freeing up other states to kill their prisoners again. Two Georgia death-row [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/16/morning-headlines-32/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/16/morning-headlines-32/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:58:32 +0000 Russell McLendon http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/16/morning-headlines-32/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/04/16/morning-headlines-32/feed/ 0 SOFT CORPS: In a salve for metro Atlanta’s water woes, the Army Corps of Engineers releases a new proposal reducing the minimum amount of water that can be released from Lake Lanier daily. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has until June 1 to approve the plan. Perdue already approves. GSUED: Georgia State is sued by [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/18/lake-lanier-shore-being-studied-for-development/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/18/lake-lanier-shore-being-studied-for-development/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:01:18 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/18/lake-lanier-shore-being-studied-for-development/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/01/18/lake-lanier-shore-being-studied-for-development/feed/ 2 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sent out a press release today announcing an environmental impact assessment will be conducted at Bethel Park, a 62-acre parcel of undeveloped land on Lake Lanier’s western shore. According to the release, development proposals have been submitted by the YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta and Forsyth County. The Corps says [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/20/everybody-hates-shelby/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/20/everybody-hates-shelby/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:48:48 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/20/everybody-hates-shelby/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/20/everybody-hates-shelby/feed/ 0 No, not you, Shelbinator. Mysterious Mickey at Atlanta Water Shortage is pissed — I repeat, pissed — at Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby and his earmark-slippin’ ways. According to 11Alive News — and a bevy of others — the distinguished gentleman from Alabama snuck an earmark into yesterday’s pork-laden budget bill that would prevent the U.S. Army [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:20:14 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/17/governors-agree-reduced-flows-needed-will-iron-out-the-kinks-later/feed/ 0 What does 270 miles of traveling south and a day in Tallahassee get you? According to today’s meeting of the governors of Florida, Georgia and Alabama, just some more time. Gov. Sonny Perdue trekked down to the Sunshine State’s capital to meet with Governors Charlie Crist of Florida and Bob Riley of Alabama and, according to [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:36:47 +0000 Helen Herbst http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/12/13/fishing-for-allatoona/feed/ 0 Everyone’s talking about Lake Lanier and its water-level woes. It is, after all, a big deal — Lake Lanier supplies water for 60 percent of the state. But I ain’t drinkin’ it. I, along with about 80,000 of my closest friends from Marietta and Cartersville, get my water from Allatoona Lake — or Lake Allatoona, to [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/us-fish-and-wildlife-say-lake-lanier-releases-can-be-reduced-but-not-by-much/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/us-fish-and-wildlife-say-lake-lanier-releases-can-be-reduced-but-not-by-much/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:14:08 +0000 Thomas Wheatley http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/us-fish-and-wildlife-say-lake-lanier-releases-can-be-reduced-but-not-by-much/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2007/11/16/us-fish-and-wildlife-say-lake-lanier-releases-can-be-reduced-but-not-by-much/feed/ 0 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services said today that releasing less water from Lake Lanier would not endanger several federally protected species living downstream, but the announcement is not the godsend for which state officials had hoped. Effective immediately, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can reduce flows out of Lake Lanier to 4,500 cubic [...]