AltWeeklies Wire
Fight for Rightsnew
Small northern Alberta First Nations band could force government to regulate oil industry.
VUE Weekly |
Josh Marcellin |
09-21-2012 |
Environment
Waste Injection Wells: The Earth's Invisible Dumpnew
With more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic waste having been injected under the surface of the Earth, what happens if our belief that what goes down can’t come up is wrong?
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge |
09-21-2012 |
Environment
Tags: toxic waste, waste
Developing Jackson: A Decade of Progressnew
In 2002, Jackson looked in many ways like a city doomed to decay.
Jackson Free Press |
Jacob Fuller |
09-21-2012 |
Commentary
Bob Dylan: Still rolling, still blowingnew
Once again Bob Dylan, now 71, is on the cover of magazines. His new disc, Tempest, is near the top of the charts. And yet to many, too many, especially to those under 40, Dylan is worse than an enigma or a mystery, he is a story where the plot is too far advanced to join in.
Planet Jackson Hole |
Richard Abowitz |
09-21-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
An Open Letter to Mr. Romney From a Latinanew
Just because you talk the talk doesn't mean you walk the walk.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Ailen J. Arreaza |
09-21-2012 |
Commentary
Tags: Arizona, Spanish, president, Cuban, News, White House, cumbia, Latin, healthcare, Mexico, 47 percent, Aileen Arreaza, Cuban-American, jalapeño
After the Arab Spring, the Future is Uncertain for Muslim Gay Youthnew
A year and a half after the revolution, gays remain marginalized and excluded from discussions about human rights in the new democratic Tunisia.
The Big Shownew
North Bay craft brewers prepare for the Great American Beer Festival.
North Bay Bohemian |
Ken Weaver |
09-20-2012 |
Food+Drink
Bittersweet Homenew
Seniors face a tough transition into their brand-new apartments.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
09-20-2012 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing, senior living
Children of the (Candy) Cornnew
The evil candy corn industry has infiltrated major snack corporations in a continued effort to distract us from the scientific fact that candy corn is the second worst Halloween candy ever made.
Cincinnati CityBeat |
Mike Breen |
09-20-2012 |
Food+Drink
40 years in Atlantanew
The best Atlanta has to offer, past and present, spanning four decades of CL
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
CL staff |
09-20-2012 |
Culture
What Texas Criminal Justice Reformers Could Teach the Booming Immigrant Detention Systemnew
GOP State Rep. Jerry Madden took the helm of the House corrections committee in 2005, just in time for a deeply distressing projection: booming incarceration in our notoriously tough-on-crime state meant Texas would need eight new prisons by 2012, at a cost of about $1 billion.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-20-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: jail, criminal justice
Pitfall! How Voter ID Trips Up Votersnew
Final arguments will be held Sept. 24 in a federal court case about South Carolina’s Voter ID law. Pitfalls for voters abound regardless of how the court rules, and that could be just the intention of those who passed the law.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
09-20-2012 |
Politics
Tags: voting rights act
Al-Shabaab cases takes a turnnew
Four Somali men hope testimony collected in East Africa will prove they didn’t send money to a terrorist group.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
09-19-2012 |
International
Tags: government
A Q&A with Mark Mothersbaughnew
WE ARE DEVO.
NUVO |
Taylor Peters |
09-19-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Shaky Groundnew
Maggie Henry has spent 35 years growing her all natural farm in Northwest Pa. Now a nearby gas drilling operation in a field of old abandoned wells threaten to take it all away.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Charlie Deitch |
09-19-2012 |
Environment
