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"The Material Curl," "Tommy Pitches a Tent," "Is No MySpace Sacred?"new

AltWeeklies Award - News Story (1500 words or less)

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 04-21-2008 | Media

Texas HB 2391: The Stoner's Summarynew

On Sept. 1, a new Texas law will go into effect that says if a cop catches you with your stash -- assuming you're not dumb enough to cruise around with more than four ounces on your person -- they can issue you a citation instead of hauling your ass downtown.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 08-08-2007 | Drugs

Tags: Drugs

Talking Human Rights With Jorge Bustamantenew

The UN investigator has been blocked from U.S. immigration detention centers.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 05-30-2007 | Immigration

Tags: illegal immigrant, detention

Undocumented Immigrants, Unlicensed Prisonnew

Homeland Security's family-detention center bends the law and escapes scrutiny.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 05-23-2007 | Immigration

Tags: illegal, immigrant

Public Access' Public Axisnew

Now that the City Council has approved the testing of AT&T's U-Verse, it's a waiting game for public-access producers, and in the meantime they're gearing up for a battle.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 04-25-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Go With the (Free) Flownew

The Free Flow of Info Act: Keeping journalists off the witness stand (and protecting anonymous sources).

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 04-18-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Cutting Death-Row Inmates Offnew

As if they weren't already isolated enough: Activists allege that Texas Department of Criminal Justice employees are applying death-row mail and visitation policies arbitrarily, and in some cases, using the rules as a form of punishment.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 04-12-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

A Nasty Case of Deja Vunew

The search warrant was illegal and the DNA test flawed -- now Theodore Streater is going to trial without an attorney.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 02-21-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Bread Between the Linesnew

A Trans-Texas Corridor profiteer is buying up community newspapers along the proposed superhighway.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 02-07-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Surge Protectorsnew

Anti-war demonstrators are putting their boots on the ground, so soldiers won't be forced to do the same in Iraq.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 01-24-2007 | War

Tags: Iraq, WAR, in

Injections & Ice Stormsnew

Even an Act of God couldn't postpone Johnathan Moore's execution.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 01-24-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Chokenew

The political spin is that increased tobacco taxes will discourage smoking, but that doesn't seem to agree with financial estimates from the Texas Comptroller's office.

San Antonio Current | Dave Maass | 12-20-2006 | Policy Issues

Tags: public policy issues