AltWeeklies Wire
Health Care Roadblocknew
Mario and Laura -- illegal Mexican immigrants who live in Georgia -- learned last month that getting state medical care for their child, who is a U.S. citizen, might not be as easy as it once seemed.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
03-16-2006 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Black Atlanta Disappearsnew
Skip Mason has collected more than 3,000 posters, newspaper clippings, weathered photos and other odds and ends in order to help tell the story of black Atlanta.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
02-23-2006 |
History
Tags: history
Healing Deniednew
A proposed bill in Georgia is a comprehensive crackdown on illegal immigrants and a broad denial of social services, including emergency health care, for illegal adults.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
02-16-2006 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Blowing the Whistlenew
A student 41 days away from graduating gets expelled and he thinks it's not because of what the school says, but a lawsuit he filed previously.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
02-09-2006 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
State Says 'I Do' to Saving Marriagesnew
A week after the state House Judiciary Committee gave a favorable report of a Senate bill that would quadruple the waiting period for divorce, the Georgia Department of Human Services also announced a marriage-saving project.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
02-02-2006 |
Politics
Gas Bill Aid Falls Shortnew
Once the natural gas market was deregulated, competition didn't bring down prices -- the market became more susceptible to gas price fluctuations.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
01-19-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
King of Pornnew
Georgia's Mike South has evolved from a computer geek to a well-known pornographer.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
01-12-2006 |
Sex
Judge Decides Fate of Teenager Facing Deportationnew
A 19-year-old went before the judge to find out if he would be allowed to stay in the U.S. after an arrest five years earlier for pot. Follow-up to "Feds Look to Deport Teenager for Pot."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
12-08-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
A Hispanic Man Chases the American Dream -- And Fallsnew
Pablo came to Georgia to earn money as a construction worker for his wife and children, only to fall to his death on the site.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
12-01-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Crackdown on Human Traffickingnew
If the past month's activities are any sign, federal prosecutors are succeeding in their mission to topple a perceived growing number of Georgia-based traffickers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
11-17-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Georgia's Prisons Fail to Treat Inmates With Hepatitis Cnew
Being denied treatment for such a disease -- particularly if a prisoner forcibly contracts it in prison -- could be construed as cruel and unusual punishment, says an attorney with a prisoner rights advocacy group.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
11-10-2005 |
Science
Skinheads Eat, Drink and Talk Hatred in Rural Georgianew
Approximately 100 white-power skinheads, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members congregated on a Paulding County pastureland last weekend for Hammerfest 2005, the annual Hammerskin festival.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
10-06-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Occupational Deaths on the Rise in Georgianew
Statistics, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in late August, showed that Georgia saw a 16 percent increase in workplace deaths in 2004 from 2003. Florida was the only state to report a greater increase than Georgia.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
09-08-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Faces of Methnew
Follow three men and their battle with the little white powder, better know as Crystal Meth.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
07-21-2005 |
Science
Tags: crystalmeth
Cancer Progressed Despite Alternative Therapynew
A 72-year-old cancer patient who turned to a radical organic diet as alternative treatment finds disappointing results.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
07-14-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
