AAN News
Rival Calls for Sheriff's Resignation After OC Weekly Story
An OC Weekly article published Wednesday includes photographs of county Sheriff Mike Carona with a strip-club boss whom "the FBI calls a mob associate," according to the Weekly. Carona also swore in as a reserve deputy at least one other man whom the Weekly alleges has mafia ties. Ralph Martin, who hopes to unseat Carona in this year's election, held a news conference yesterday calling for Carona's resignation in light of the story and photographs, according to the Los Angeles Times. (The L.A. Times story conspicuously avoids the words "mafia" or "mob.") An update posted to the OC Weekly Web site yesterday quotes Martin as saying, "This is unacceptable behavior. We can't allow our law enforcement personnel to be associated with known criminals or criminal associates."
04-28-2006 10:23 am |
Industry News
Kansas City Auditor Reprimanded for Photo and Comments in The Pitch
City Auditor Mark Funkhouser and Mayor Kay Barnes have been at odds over economic policies, according to The Kansas City Star, but the tension reached a new exteme when Barnes formally reprimanded Funkhouser for giving "the appearance of inappropriately assisting a mayoral candidate" in the pages of The Pitch. A photo published by The Pitch showed Funkhouser meeting on March 8 with Stanford Glazer, who subsequently declared his candidacy for mayor. Funkhouser was also quoted as saying he would like a mayor "who can wrestle with the city’s financial problems and be open and honest with the citizens on the choices we face," but he did not name a specific candidate. The reprimand is the first Funkhouser has received in his 30-year career, but he "has come close to being fired at least three times in the past 18 years because he speaks bluntly and rarely has good news about city government's performance," according to the Star.
04-28-2006 8:10 am |
Industry News
Max Cannon: You 'Have To Be a Little Crazy' to Draw Alt Comics
"Getting an alternative comic feature up and running requires lots of hard work and patience," says Max Cannon, creator of Red Meat, a comic that runs in several AAN papers. Relish, a weekly entertainment tabloid published by The Winston-Salem Journal, interviews Cannon in its April 27 issue, the first in which Red Meat appears. Cannon also tells Relish that he wanted Red Meat "to have a look that was somewhere between clip art and arresting minimalism, so that the text was more important than the art itself," and that his favorite reader response has been when he has "gotten requests from academics to use Red Meat strips in textbooks, journal articles or to use in scholarly presentations."
04-28-2006 7:46 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Max Cannon
Boston Phoenix Writer Analyzes Mass. Governor on Slate.com
04-28-2006 11:15 am |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Boston Phoenix
News Execs Vow To Keep Fighting for Access to Public Recordsnew
AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
04-28-2006 9:39 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Daily Kos on Huckabee/Ark Times: 'Petty Revenge' Is GOP Traitnew
Daily Kos |
04-28-2006 9:28 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Arkansas Times
Ark. Governor: 'The Times Is Whining'new
Arkansas News Bureau |
04-28-2006 6:48 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Arkansas Times
City Pages Takes a Pounding Over Meth Joke
When the Minneapolis alt-weekly selected crystal meth as the "Best Cheap Thrill" in its
annual "Best of the Twin Cities" issue, the usual suspects lined up to express their outrage, including talk-radio hosts, local TV reporters, health officials, politicians, and irate readers. Editor Steve Perry's first instinct was to stand by the blurb, explaining in an editor's note that it was a joke that was intended to make the point "that it's possible to make entirely too much of the drug hype of the hour--unless you're in radio or television, of course." But after being pounded for twelve hours, Perry issued an apology, saying that he was chastened by "a lot of comments and e-mails ... from readers who've seen the lives of loved ones wrecked or ended by meth."
04-27-2006 12:42 pm |
Industry News
AAN Hires Web-Publishing Experts to Help Organize Fall Conference
West Gold Editorial will help the association organize programming for its fall Web-publishing conference, which will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to the consulting work they handle for print publications and their Web sites, West Gold Editorial has experience in a similar, advisory role in connection with an annual Web-publishing workshop hosted by Stanford University. The firm's principals will also present two seminars at this year's annual convention in Little Rock.
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AAN Staff |
04-27-2006 7:47 am |
Association News
CityBeat: Why Hasn't Lacey Touched L.A. Weekly Yet?new
Los Angeles CityBeat |
04-27-2006 1:54 pm |
Industry News
New Salt Lake Faux-Alt Doesn't Scare SL City Weeklynew
Salt Lake City Weekly |
04-26-2006 1:15 pm |
Industry News
Defense Department Seeks Secrecy Stampnew
The Oxford Press (Ohio) |
04-26-2006 8:22 am |
Legal News
Tags: Editorial
Opinion: 'Sedition' Threat to Weekly Alibi Letter Writer Is Ominousnew
Reason Online |
04-26-2006 7:55 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Weekly Alibi
Isthmus' 30th Anniversary Timeline Posted Onlinenew
Isthmus |
04-26-2006 7:52 am |
Industry News
Former Dallas Observer Writer Running for Mayornew
Habitual readers of AAN News may experience deja vu upon hearing that erstwhile Observer writer Zac Crain officially announced his candidacy for mayor of Dallas yesterday. Unlike current Dallas mayor -- and former Observer columnist -- Laura Miller, Crain didn't write about politics: He served as the Observer's music editor before joining the staff of American Airlines' American Way magazine. In his announcement speech, Crain said, "We can do this. I know this in my heart and in my head."
'Zac Crain for Mayor' blog |
04-25-2006 1:21 pm |
Industry News
