AltWeeklies Wire
The Fate of Georgia's Fortsnew
The seemingly losing battle to save four Georgia military bases -- and 6,000 military and civilian jobs -- has state and local officials debating what to do with the properties, should the bases close.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
07-07-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Georgia GOP Eases Up on Mortgage Lendersnew
Now that a pro-business, anti-consumer version of the Georgia Fair Lending Act has replaced its original strong anti-predatory lending law, the state appears to need the original law's protections more than ever.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
05-19-2005 |
Politics
72-Year-Old Woman Chooses Radical Therapy to Fight Cancernew
At a dead end with mainstream medicine, a woman with inoperable cancer turns to alternative and natural remedies developed by German physician Max Gerson in the late 1920s.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
05-12-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Allocating Medicare Funds to Georgia Proves to be Lopsided Balancing Actnew
Drastic federal Medicaid cuts have forced Georgia and other states to reallocate Medicaid funds. A critic says the result is a loss of access to some of Medicaid's most effective services.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
04-21-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Georgia Pharmacists Can Refuse to Fill Birth Control Prescriptionsnew
Georgia pharmacists can refuse to fill morning-after and birth control prescriptions if such medication violates their personal or religious beliefs. What's more, in the next legislative session there could be a warmer reception for a bill backing a pharmacist's right to refuse morning-after pills.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
04-07-2005 |
Science
Tags: morning-after, pill
How University of Georgia Became White Chick U.new
Now, while the university has skyrocketed in national rankings and academic prestige, its student body has shed any semblance of diversity. Blacks and rural whites are becoming as rare at UGA as Florida Gator bumper stickers.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
02-03-2005 |
Education
Tags: Education
Deaf Man Duped by 'Misleading' Brokernew
Lester Wimbley was only trying to refinance his home in Decatur, Ga. But within months of contacting a broker, a lawsuit claims, he had unwittingly sold his home and was forced to pay thousands of unnecessary dollars to the broker and the home's buyer.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
01-21-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Georgia Still Behind in Implementing Olmstead Rulingnew
Advocates thought Georgia -- the birthplace of the case -- would be among the first to implement the monumental change.
But it hasn't been. Today it ranks among the slowest states to de-institutionalize those capable of living outside institutions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
12-16-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
America's Hooked on Antidepressant Drugsnew
More than 18 million Americans suffer from depression. Doctors must not only diagnose properly but must also experiment, making patients go through a trial-and-error treatment process that sometimes does more harm than good.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
11-18-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Report Eviscerates Tort Reform Logicnew
A "smoking gun" report filed last week by the nation's largest provider of medical malpractice insurance found that capping pain and suffering damages in malpractice cases -- a proposal known as tort reform -- won't lower doctors' premiums after all.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
11-04-2004 |
Politics
Internal Documents Point to Primate Abuse at Emorynew
Internal documents obtained and released last week by a Cincinnati-based animal advocate group show that Emory University and its Yerkes National Primate Research Center might have violated the federal Animal Welfare Act, resulting in the death of a rhesus monkey.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
10-14-2004 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Cameras Could be Filming Political Infomercials at a Hospital Near Younew
Tort reform would cap pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice cases -- and therefore lower doctors' insurance premiums. But some studies have shown that malpractice is less the culprit in rising premiums -- that in fact insurance companies' greed is to blame.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
10-07-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Contraceptives at Teen Centers Restrictednew
Last week, the state Department of Human Resources board decided it would be best if teen centers -- which have a goal to reduce teenage pregnancy -- faced further restrictions on, of all things, handing out contraceptives.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
09-30-2004 |
Sex
Court Case Makes it Easier for Relatives to Adopt Kinnew
If the Harris decision stands, it could mean that a far larger number of adoptive parents -- many of them relatives to the children they've adopted -- will be able to collect Social Security benefits.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
09-23-2004 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Legislation Could Require Standards for Preserving DNA Evidencenew
Sen. David Adelman, D-Decatur, an author of the new legislation, wants to guarantee that others will be able to test their crime scene DNA.
Adelman is attempting to pass legislation requiring statewide standards for preserving DNA evidence in criminal cases.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
09-15-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
