AltWeeklies Wire
Speed the Courtnew
Alex Woodward on DA Leon Cannizzaro and his challenge to judges to double the number of jury trials they hear each year. Is it workable?
Tags: Leon Cannizzaro
The Warriorsnew
How the decades-long fight against AIDS made radicals out of activists.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Holly Otterbein |
02-15-2011 |
Politics
Nathan Deal Seems Like a Trade-Up From Perduenew
Sunday sales and cooperation with Atlanta give reason to feel good about Georgia's new governor.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
02-10-2011 |
Politics
Tags: Sonny Perdue, Nathan Deal
Free Times Releases Phone Conversation With S.C. Lt. Governornew
S.C. GOP Lt. Gov. Ken Ard told the AP that comments published in the Free Times attributed to him weren't accurate.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
02-08-2011 |
Politics
Tags: South Carolina, Ken Ard
Elizabeth Lynn Dunham: May 12, 1961-Jan. 16, 2011new
The life and death of the woman who former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt sexually abused beginning when she was a young teen-ager.
Willamette Week |
Nigel Jaquiss |
02-02-2011 |
Politics
Texas Budget Cuts Pack a Wallop for Students, Elderly, and the Illnew
The Texas Legislative Budget Board last week released the first draft of a proposed budget for fiscal years 2012 and 2013. Now that legislators, school superintendents, hospital administrators, and community college leaders have had the chance to pick themselves up off the floor and assess the potential damage to public school instruction, medical care, and more, it is becoming clear that nearly every Texan will feel the squeeze.
San Antonio Current |
Vince Leibowitz |
02-01-2011 |
Politics
Tags: Texas
Pin the Fail on the Donkeynew
Jeremy Alford on the collapse of the Louisiana Democratic Party -- and what lies ahead for the Dems.
From BP to politics: Oregon Governor Kitzhaber's New Chief of Staffnew
Charming, funny and Oregonian to the core, Robinhold brings a little Big Oil slickness to the Oregon governor’s office.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
01-28-2011 |
Politics
Union Sues S.C. Gov. Haley for Fiery Commentsnew
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is headed to court for claiming the state will seek to prevent employees from forming a union.
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
01-21-2011 |
Politics
Improper Remark Attributed to County Elections Official in N.C.new
An allegation that the Forsyth County elections director made an inappropriate comment to a former employee prompted a fact-finding visit from Raleigh on Jan. 13 by the State Board of Elections top lawyer.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
01-20-2011 |
Politics
Tags: Rob Coffman, Forsyth County
School of Hard Knocksnew
Faced with an economic nightmare, Colorado state legislators swear they'll work together.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chet Hardin |
01-20-2011 |
Politics
Quan Gets Serious with Budgetnew
Oakland's new mayor ousts two top budget officials on her first full-day in office. Jerry Brown appoints two with ties to the prison guards' union.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
01-14-2011 |
Politics
Tags: Jerry Brown, Jean Quan
Company Sells Engraved “You Lie” Component For AR-15 Riflenew
A South Carolina gun and accessories company is selling semi-automatic rifle components inscribed with “You lie” – a tribute to the infamous words of 2nd District Republican Congressman Joe Wilson when he shouted at President Barack Obama during a congressional speech about national health care reform in the fall of 2009.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
01-12-2011 |
Politics
S.C. Legislature Juggling Budget Crisis With Immigration, Election Reformsnew
Statehouse leaders sing chorus of looming "pain."
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
01-11-2011 |
Politics
How Will the GOP Govern?new
Thanks to a handful of recent Democratic defections as well as several imminent special elections, the GOP is poised to control both houses of the Louisiana Legislature when its lawmakers gather in late April.
Tags: GOP, Bobby Jindal
