AltWeeklies Wire
A Violent Sex Offender Is Released Into the Public Spotlightnew
One week after completing a 23-year prison sentence for a violent sexual assault, Richard Laws walked through downtown Burlington on a sun-drenched afternoon — a "free" man.
Seven Days |
Mark Davis |
04-23-2015 |
Crime & Justice
The Teaching Poornew
Twenty-two percent of part-time faculty in Oregon are below the poverty line. That’s higher than the 16.2 percent of Oregonians in general that the U.S. Census says are below poverty.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-23-2015 |
Education
A Killing in Pocahontasnew
A witness murdered, a drug ring exposed, a snake in a box.
Arkansas Times |
Will Stephenson |
04-22-2015 |
Crime & Justice
The Cult of the Pitnew
You love me now, but will you when I’m four?
San Diego Reader |
Bill Manson |
04-22-2015 |
Animal Issues
How to Build a Brewerynew
It's not for the Mild.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Jonathan Wells |
04-22-2015 |
Business & Labor
Millions for Propaganda ... Nothing for Women's Healthnew
Texas heavily underwrites anti-abortion centers, while slashing reproductive care.
Austin Chronicle |
Staff |
04-17-2015 |
The War on Women
The Death of Walter Scottnew
A North Charleston police officer shot a man in the back, and a bystander caught it all on video. What happens next?
Charleston City Paper |
City Paper Editorial Staff |
04-15-2015 |
Crime & Justice
Counter-Terrorism Officials Helped Track Black Lives Matter Protestersnew
A cache of California Highway Patrol emails provides a glimpse into how anti-terrorism agents helped law enforcement officials monitor Black Lives Matter protesters on the web.
East Bay Express |
Darwin BondGraham |
04-15-2015 |
Civil Liberties
Baltimore City Paper Takes a Trip to D.C. to Experience Weed Freedomnew
The City Paper art team packed up our notebooks and pens and mini recorders and headed south to see what freedom felt like.
Baltimore City Paper |
Baynard Woods |
04-15-2015 |
Drugs
Does North Carolina Have a Budding Interest in Marijuana?new
House Bill 78, a bill that was filed in the North Carolina General Assembly in February, has been deemed the North Carolina Medical Cannabis Act.
YES! Weekly |
Britt Chester |
04-15-2015 |
Drugs
Tags: marijuana
Why I Gave Up Booze in Favor of Weednew
It helps with my anxiety, it doesn't give me hangovers, and are you aware of what it does to sex?
The Stranger |
Sarah Galvin |
04-13-2015 |
Drugs
Tags: marijuana
The Prison-to-Pension Pipelinenew
The correlation between low student achievement, failing schools, and youth incarceration is clear, especially for black and Latino males in urban public schools.
City Newspaper |
Tim Louis Macaluso |
04-13-2015 |
Education
You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Record The Policenew
Meet the crusaders battling for everyone's right to record cops in Massachusetts.
Dig Boston |
Andrew Quemere |
04-10-2015 |
Civil Liberties
Officer Slager’s Record Shows CPR and Taser Training, Two Complaintsnew
2013 complainant said the North Charleston cop, now accused of murdering Walter Scott, tased him "for no reason."
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
04-10-2015 |
Crime & Justice
Flying Back From the Edge of Extinctionnew
Operation Migration and the endangered whooping crane.
Wisconsin Gazette |
Lisa Neff |
04-10-2015 |
Environment
