AltWeeklies Wire
'Hell' Freezes Overnew

Matt Groening moves on after 34 years of 'Life in Hell'
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
07-13-2012 |
Media
Tags: life in hell
The Onenew

'King' Edmund Keli’i Silva Jr. sees his fairy-tale ascension as one more step toward Hawaiian sovereignty.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
11-08-2011 |
Features
Extreme Justicenew

Some say the way inmates are treated in Los Angeles County jails is absolutely criminal.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-14-2011 |
Crime & Justice
'Freeway’ Ricky Ross Speaks on Gary Webb, the CIA, and the Contra Warnew

Ricky Donnell “Freeway Ricky” Ross, the notorious Los Angeles crack dealer released from federal prison in September after serving 14 years, said he had no idea proceeds from his business helped fund CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries in Nicaragua.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
05-03-2010 |
Drugs
When it Comes to Risky Business, Driving Has Nothing on Parking in Pasadenanew

Where does it all end? No one knows. But we do know where misery begins for people victimized by money-hungry state and local officials imposing bankbook-busting fines for such “crimes” as improper parking, rolling through stop signs and running red lights.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-15-2010 |
Transportation
What a Long, Strange — But Incredibly Fruitful — Trip It's Beennew

There’s a now-old adage that goes, “If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there.” Activist, author and former politician Tom Hayden was there — helping shape those historic times.
Pasadena Weekly |
Carl Kozlowski and Kevin Uhrich |
01-11-2010 |
Nonfiction
Ideologues Take Full Advantage of America's Amnesia About Tom Painenew
"The idea that Glenn Beck and others whose ideas are opposite to Paine's have adopted him to distort his ideas is extremely disturbing, but not surprising," writes Alaine Lowell, executive director of the Thomas Paine Society.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
11-16-2009 |
Commentary
Happy New Year, Peggy Rebernew
I was a few days shy of 11 when in February 1970 a jury in my hometown of Lebanon, Pa., acquitted 27-year-old Art Root of the torture slaying of teenager Margaret Lynn "Peggy" Reber. Not long after that, Root moved away and the case has since been on ice. But no one, including me, ever forgot that time.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
08-19-2009 |
Crime & Justice
House Republican Inquiry into Secrets Surrounding Cap-and-Trade Fraud Convictionnew
A former Pasadena businesswoman convicted of engineering a fraudulent cap-and-trade pollution credit deal is at the heart of a congressional inquiry into the government's latest response to global warming.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
05-18-2009 |
Crime & Justice
No Clear Path to Peace for Obama Administrationnew
We are anxious because now it appears Obama, like LBJ, wants it both ways and isn't really as much about getting us out of any of our recent military quagmires as he is about negotiating settlements in which we stay.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
01-05-2009 |
Commentary
Thousands of Wounded Vets Are Called to Fight Againnew
After nearly two years of convalescing and almost fully recovering from being shot in the shoulder and suffering a head wound from a bomb, Ismail Cabral has been told to expect to start another two-year tour of duty within the next six months. And he's not alone.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
10-07-2008 |
War
John McCain and Friendsnew
While it may seem like he really doesn't know much about the economy, McCain knows who his real friends are. And considering the Republicans are planning on giving away all this money to those failed Wall Street lenders -- and nothing directly to help the people who are in trouble -- we can pretty well guess who those friends are.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
09-29-2008 |
Commentary
"Uncovering Project Censored," "And Now the News," "Dead Men Do Tell Tales"new
AltWeeklies Award - Media Reporting
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Tapped Out: Surviving in a World Without Waternew

Some 18 percent of the world's population wouldn't know clean water if they saw it, and roughly 2.6 billion people, says the UN, don't have access to basic toilets. Beyond that, scientists have been telling us for years that greenhouse gases are enveloping the planet, which is only getting warmer and drier.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
03-24-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Bad News All Aroundnew
Pasadena Star-News and LA Times hit hard in latest round of newspaper cuts.
Pasadena Weekly |
Andre Coleman and Kevin Uhrich |
03-17-2008 |
Media
Tags: media