AltWeeklies Wire
Drone Zone: High-Tech War Games in Oregon?new
If senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley have their way, and the FAA reauthorization bill is signed into law with an increase in drone-testing areas inserted, then a swath of high desert, currently home to sage grouse and antelope, could become prime real estate for drones or more accurately, unmanned aerial systems. As war becomes more and more like a high tech video game, the question becomes: Does Oregon want to be in the business of testing killing machines?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
05-20-2011 |
War
Freedom Rides Againnew
Hank Thomas walked up the steps of the Greyhound bus on a sunny day May 4, 1961. As he calmly surveyed its drab, blue-gray interior, the lanky 19-year-old black student from Howard University had no idea that in about two weeks he would come dangerously close to meeting his maker on its floor.
Jackson Free Press |
Dylan Watson |
05-19-2011 |
Civil Liberties
Wine & Powernew
Just how influential is the wine-industry lobby in California?
Sacramento News & Review |
Anthony Pignataro |
05-19-2011 |
Business & Labor
There Were Nine Days Leftnew
Storming New York with Harold Camping's Rapture warriors.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Faraone |
05-19-2011 |
Religion
The Anti-Rapturenew
Oakland atheists brace for Judgment Day.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
05-18-2011 |
Religion
The Color of Firenew
The Austin Fire Department is making yet another attempt at staff diversity – will it do any better this time?
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
05-18-2011 |
Race & Class
Tags: Diversity, Austin Fire Department
Cleveland's Job Machinenew
Global Cleveland wants to put the region to work. Who gets the jobs isn't clear.
Cleveland Scene |
John Lasker |
05-18-2011 |
Business & Labor
Ideological Clash Threatens Energy Efficiency Programnew
It had been almost nine months since Greensboro signed a contract with the federal government to receive a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to provide energy-efficiency upgrades to buildings.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
05-18-2011 |
Housing & Development
Tags: Department of Energy, Stimulus
The Burden of Proofnew
For every person exonerated for a crime they didn't commit, there are many like James Legate: questionable cases, bulldozed through a flawed system, with no recourse left. Only a miracle could free him—and his wife is working, and hoping, for no less.
The Texas Observer |
Laura Burke |
05-17-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Prisons, James Legate
Abject Professorsnew
With low pay and even lower collegiate expectations, part-time instructors face a full-time problem.
Las Vegas CityLife |
Gigi Generaux |
05-16-2011 |
Education
To Serve, to Protect and...to Stealnew
If TSA workers steal from the people they are supposed to be protecting, how can they be trusted to keep the nation safe from terrorism?
New York Press |
Spencer Wilking |
05-13-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Battle Over Biomassnew
Angry loggers, protesters locking themselves to cars and belligerent law enforcement bring to mind the face-offs between loggers and activists during the logging wars of the Northwest in the 1990s. But these days, with only a few exceptions, it’s energy and climate change, not old growth, that are causing the clashes between corporations and ecowarriers.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
05-13-2011 |
Environment
Man Seeks Answers 44 Years After Witnessing Brother's Deathnew
Charles Stecker was only 4 years old when he saw his foster mother kill his 2-year-old brother Eddie, but he remembers it like it was yesterday.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
05-11-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Mission Accomplished?new
With Osama bin Laden dead, can we finally end the war on terror?
LEO Weekly |
Jonathan Meador |
05-11-2011 |
War
Everything's Not 'Fein' at Kennesaw Statenew
Right-wing intolerance isn't the norm at Kennesaw State University.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steven Watson |
05-11-2011 |
Policy Issues
