AltWeeklies Wire
The Invisiblesnew
57,000 minors crossed the Southern border last year. Should we send them back?
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
12-04-2015 |
Immigration
Duke Energy: Guilty of Violating the Clean Water Actnew
Penalty is $102 million in fines, five years’ probation; individuals could still be charged.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
05-21-2015 |
Environment
Before fracking begins in N.C., Texas energy company investigates shale gas deposits in Lee Countynew
Also: DENR rejects federal funding that would have helped the state assess fracking impacts.
Voter Integrity Project boot camp teaches how to challenge votersnew
"If you're going on intuition, you will have to prove you're not racist."
In N.C., 40 counties are no longer governed by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Actnew
Voting advocates worry that county and state leaders will now have the leverage to pursue redistricting intended to pack minority voters into districts, marginalizing their voting power.
Legislation would prohibit cities and counties from regulating frackingnew
Senate Bill 612, which passed the Senate in early May, specifies that local regulations may not be more stringent than those proffered by North Carolina's Mining and Energy Commission.
A 278-year-old error over the N.C.–S.C. border is riling residentsnew
Unceremoniously marked 278 years ago with a stone here or a notch on a tree there, King George's boundaries leave a portion of Fred Berlinger's Polk County home in South Carolina.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
05-09-2013 |
Environment
Tags: border
Immigrants Denied Mental Health Servicesnew
When Cardinal Innovations quietly assumed local management of public mental health services in Orange and Chatham counties last April, they brought with them a policy to deny Medicaid reimbursements for the treatment of undocumented immigrants.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
03-21-2013 |
Immigration
U.S. History According to Charles Kochnew
The conservative billionaire could be teaching your kids.
Tags: Charles Koch
Feds sue Alamance sheriff for alleged racial profiling of Latinosnew
"Go out there and catch me some Mexicans." That's what Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson allegedly told his deputies, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Dec. 20 by the U.S. Department of Justice.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
01-02-2013 |
Race & Class
Commission to consider disclosure of fracking chemicalsnew
Mining and Energy Commission Chairman Jim Womack says he believes North Carolina will enact stringent disclosure laws.
Tags: Fracking
Latino? Bypass Alamance County, N.C.new
September and October reports show Latino drivers were more than four times as likely as non-Latinos to be arrested during traffic stops by Alamance County deputies.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
12-13-2012 |
Race & Class
What went wrong for North Carolina's Democrats?new
The Republicans' 2010 victory—which happened as a national census ensured newly drawn voting districts, coupled with the windfall of campaign donations that bolster incumbents—struck a mortal blow to this year's crop of Democrats.
Tags: NC Democratic Party
What Life is Like in Solitary Confinementnew
Solitary confinement is expensive, psychologically damaging and ineffective. So why do we use it?
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
11-01-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Solitary confinement
DOJ: Alamance County sheriff's office racially profiled Latinosnew
U.S. Department of Justice officials report that Alamance County Sheriff's Office leaders "explicitly" order deputies to target Latinos and "foster a culture of bias by using anti-Latino epithets."
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
09-19-2012 |
Crime & Justice
