AltWeeklies Wire
The Crime of Fitting the Description
Jorel Evans fit the description of a suspect in a car burglary. In fact, he’d been "fitting the description" for some time, as police have been trying to fit him and his brother for matching prison suits for the last two years.
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Terelle Jerricks |
08-18-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Real Scandal -- Karl Rove and the White House Lies
The uproar over outing a CIA agent leads directly back to lies about the Iraq war, WMDs and President Bush's cooked intellegence.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-20-2005 |
Politics
Tags: confidential, source
Censored in LA
In an interview, political cartoonist Paul Conrad explains why his work won’t be seen by Angelenos.
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James Preston Allen |
07-12-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Conrad
Support for Bush and War Fades
As the Downing Street memo reprinted here shows, the media continues to cover up the lies George W. Bush told to lead the United States into war.
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Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2005 |
Politics
Greek Eats -- Discovering the Cuisine of the Aegean
Greece is great, the people are great, the antiquities are great, the scenery is great, the ferries are great, the food is great and yes, the shopping is great, says a writer who just spent three weeks there.
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Yvonne Mason |
06-22-2005 |
Travel
Tags: Greek, food/travel
True Lies
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has raised community college fees 44 percent, while refusing to raise taxes on millionaires by a single penny -- a microcosm of his reverse Robin-Hood politics. Now many claim he is lying to cover up budget shortfalls.
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Paul Rosenberg |
06-22-2005 |
Politics
Burning Liberty to Save the Flag
The Constitutional admendment to ban flag burning is a smoke screen for other issues.
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James Preston Allen |
06-22-2005 |
Commentary
$81 Million– Record settlement Ends AQMD suit with BP-ARCO
On March 17 British Petroleum/ARCO West Coast settled a landmark case $81 million with AQMD on a suit worth $260 million.
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Mike Easterbrook |
04-01-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Justice On ICE for Iranian Immigrants
Four Iranian brothers arrested on immigration violations were held at a California detention center accused of terrorism but never charged. After one brother was beaten by a guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials suddenly forced them to leave, they say.
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Terrelle Jerricks |
04-01-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Objector to War
Aidan Delgado, a young soldier with four medals, an honorable discharge and photos of the war in Iraq, saw firsthand the abuses of Abu Ghraib prison and then decided to become a conscientious objector.
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Paul Rosenberg |
04-01-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Acts of Charity in Times of War
I have a difficult time justifying this hypocrisy in my own mind, or even explaining it to a child who sees the wars as a nightly occurrence on the news, which then segues into a report on holiday festivities, shopping and charitable acts of kindness by people of fame and fortune.
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James Preston Allen |
12-01-2004 |
Commentary
Win by a Thousand Cuts
In Ohio, laws were broken to elect George Bush. Should the election be thrown out?
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Paul Rosenberg |
11-29-2004 |
Politics
Election Frauds and Fictions
Various voting abuses may have helped George W. Bush win the election, particularly in Florida and Ohio.
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Paul Rosenberg |
11-08-2004 |
Politics
Tags: election postmortem, Ohio vote
Down to the Wire: Voter Suppression Is Alive In the Heartland
It could be Florida, 2000 all over again -- or it could be worse. If the 2004 Presidential Election really is as close as most believe, the margin of victory may well depend on the suppression of votes, a practice that reached its peak in the Jim Crow South, but that has always cast a shadow on America’s aspirations to full democracy. Second of two parts
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Paul Rosenberg |
10-23-2004 |
Politics
Tags: suppression, voter
Polls, Politics and God
People commonly look at political polling with an instinctual skepticism. How, they ask, can you get an accurate sample of how voters are actually going to vote by questioning 1,000 likely voters nationwide out of the millions who actually will vote November 2?
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James Preston Allen |
10-15-2004 |
Commentary
