AltWeeklies Wire
"We've Super-Sized Our Weather"new

Republican and evangelical Christian broadcast meteorologist Paul Douglas is on a mission to communicate urgency of climate change.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
11-28-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Climate Change, Paul Douglas
Haiku Newsnew

This week's important stories told to you in 17 syllables. On this week's docket: violent film criticism, old sheriffs and deadly golf.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
09-21-2012 |
Commentary
This is Your Brain On ... Ideologynew

Exploring the psychology of politics, author Chris Mooney finds Liberal and Conservative brains function differently.
2011 in Review: Environmentnew

Despite numerous efforts to improve the environment, overall, things just spiraled further out of control as humans were unable to change their consumeristic ways.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
12-27-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Kyoto, climate change
Charles Fishman on the Revenge of Waternew

Author Charles Fishman talks about water - origins, quality, scarcity and what we can do to preserve it.
Slideshow: A Trip to the Evergladesnew

At last week’s Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Miami, NUVO managing editor Jim Poyser took a daylong trip to the Everglades.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
10-27-2011 |
Environment
Haiku Newsnew

The top news of the week, encapsulated in 17 syllables.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
10-19-2011 |
Commentary
Identity Theft Thrillernew
Now out in paperback, Talk Talk places Dana Halter, a deaf woman, at the center of a nightmare narrative about identity theft.
Feel-Good Book of the Yearnew
Longtime activist and writer Paul Hawken gives reasons for optimism in his new book.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
08-30-2007 |
Nonfiction
Haiku News: Year in Review
Each year, NUVO Managing Editor Jim Poyser culls through the hundreds of published news haiku to select the 50 best haiku that sum up the year.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
12-14-2004 |
Commentary
Tags: 2004, yearinreview
Haiku News Writer Tells All in Seventeen Syllablesnew
For those with little time to read a newspaper, NUVO's managing editor summarizes the news in haiku like this one: we have been assured/by Diebold that every/GOP vote counts.
NUVO |
Jim Poyser |
08-07-2004 |
Commentary