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How to eat seafood responsiblynew

Monterey Bay Aquarium's Southeast seafood consumer guide for fall/winter 2013 (printable pocket guide and mobile app available)
INDY Week |
Staff |
10-02-2013 |
Food+Drink
Ill impostornew

Not For Human Consumption explores synthetic marijuana's ugly aftermath.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Gracie Ramsdell |
10-02-2013 |
Drugs
Fracking Jerry Brownnew

The governor signed a bill that likely will expand fracking in California after taking $2.5 million in contributions from oil and natural gas interests.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
10-02-2013 |
Energy
Saving Veronicanew

Baby Veronica is no longer a baby. She's not even a toddler. The smiley, curly-haired little girl last seen in Charleston draped over her dad's shoulder, trailed by a flock of reporters and photographers on her way to meet and go home with her other dad, is back in Charleston.
Charleston City Paper |
Sam Spence |
10-02-2013 |
Children & Families
Tags: Baby Veronica
Mike Brown's Back in Town: A Cleveland Love Storynew

One of the more noteworthy takeaways
from last month's Cavaliers Youth Fund Golf Classic is this: Recent (and some might say garish) trends in NBA players' wardrobes haven't yet materially affected the tastes or habits of off-court personnel. The assorted Cavs' PR folks down here at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, for better or worse, look like an intergenerational tennis team...
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard |
10-02-2013 |
Sports
Waiting for the Next Oil Spill Disasternew

Environmentalists say that six years after the Cosco Busan struck the Bay Bridge and dumped 53,000 gallons of oil into the bay, the state has failed to learn from its mistakes.
East Bay Express |
Vanessa Rancaño |
10-02-2013 |
Environment
Who's Jacking Up Housing Prices in West Oakland?new

Answer: Large-scale investors. They're snapping up foreclosed houses in the city's flatlands, and then selling or renting them at prices that many residents can't afford.
East Bay Express |
Jean Tepperman |
10-02-2013 |
Housing & Development
San Diego overlords and unions — who can stop them?new
Organized labor does not play as big a role in other cities as it does in San Diego. Heywood Sanders, the nation’s expert on convention centers, says the labor/corporate welfare alliance has so much more clout in San Diego because the city is “politically disorganized and weak.”
San Diego Reader |
Don Bauder |
10-02-2013 |
Business & Labor
Was Occupy Charlotte's Demise an Inside Job?new

Former members say police infiltration killed the movement.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Ryan Pitkin |
10-02-2013 |
#OCCUPY
Tags: police infiltration
Too Damn Loudnew

Evidence suggests that hearing loss for musicians and fans is getting worse.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-02-2013 |
Health
The Chemical Corridornew

In Petrochemical America: Project Room, photographer Richard Misrach and collaborator Kate Orff dive into the toxic swamplands of Louisiana's "Cancer Alley."
East Bay Express |
Sarah Burke |
10-02-2013 |
Art
We did it guerilla stylenew

Can’t tell the young guys from Stone Brewing, Saint Archer Brewing, or Rowlberto Productions a thing about entrepreneurialism. All have employed innovative ways of reaching their business goals, including launching their brand on Instagram.
San Diego Reader |
Siobhan Braun |
10-02-2013 |
Business & Labor
Bypass Mayhemnew

A Northern California reporter faces eight years in jail. Was he being unethical, or simply doing his job?
North Bay Bohemian |
Rachel Dovey |
10-02-2013 |
Media
Project Censorednew

From whistleblowers and wealth gaps -- to the notion of journalistic objectivity, here's the news that didn't make the news.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez |
10-02-2013 |
Media
Tags: Bradley Manning