AltWeeklies Wire
Little Housesnew
As housing markets boom in many parts of the country, more people are losing their homes -- legally -- to predatory lenders.
Tucson Weekly |
Renee Downing |
07-21-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
The Gospel According to Paul Dorrnew
A little-known political consultant from Iowa is beating back the menace of public education in Minnesota, one school referendum at a time.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Molly Priesmeyer |
07-11-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Flare-Up
Health problems. Environmental degradation. A billion-dollar business with ties to the White House. Landowners on Colorado's Western Slope are fighting back against the oil and gas industry.
Rocky Mountain Bullhorn |
Bethany Kohoutek & Joshua Zaffos |
07-07-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
City Council Delays Vote on Panhandling Bannew
Atlanta City Council decided June 20 to postpone its vote on a ban against panhandling within a designated "tourist triangle" downtown.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Coley Ward |
06-23-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
General Electric Writes Legislation for N.C. Congressmannew
Why would a North Carolina congressional representative introduce legislation to stall GE's clean-up of the Hudson River? And why would he let the company write it? Congressman Charles Taylor did just that.
Mountain Xpress |
Brian Sarzynski |
06-16-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Real Estate: Bubbly or Frothy?new
Economic signs indicate that rising house prices can't go on much longer. Is Alan Greenspan finally ready to admit that the housing market is clinically insane?
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Michael Tortorello |
06-02-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
The Rights of (Corporate) Mannew
How We the People became second-class citizens.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
05-25-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Is the Pacific Northwest a Populist Paradise?new
Hanging together or hanging separately: secession and politics in the struggle for Ecotopia.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
03-23-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
The Man Who Invented Ecotopianew
Geov Parrish interviews Ecotopia author Ernest Callenbach on the 30th anniversary of his futuristic novel about Pacific Northwest secession. The book portrayed how a modern society could be restructured around environmental principles, and it became a road map for future ecologically aware development.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
03-23-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
New Recycling Policy Curbs Poachersnew
Single-stream recycling is convenient for residents and a windfall for big companies, but it's a fiasco for homeless scavengers.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
03-21-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Former Director of Indian Affairs Hawks New Casinonew
On his last day as director of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Kevin Gover -- against advice of those on his staff -- granted land rights to the Koi Nation. Now he's in the middle of the tribe's casino deal.
SF Weekly |
Ron Russell |
03-02-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Citizens Seek to Lower Mercury Levels in Vaccinesnew
Concerned scientists and patients' advocates are leading the push in Illinois to rid vaccines of a mercury-based preservative that some contend contributes to autism.
Illinois Times |
Michleen Collins |
02-28-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
The Preston Gates Matesnew
A venerable Seattle law firm launched key players in the Tom DeLay scandal.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
02-23-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Is the Future in Ethanol?new
Ethanol is part of Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer's "New Day," but the grain-based gas additive may raise more questions than it answers.
Missoula Independent |
Chris Bryant |
02-18-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Everything You Know About Taxes is Wrongnew
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston, author of Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, discusses the damage our reverse Robin Hood tax scheme is doing to 99 percent of Americans, and about the perils posed to democracy by the growing inequalities of the system.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Beth Hawkins |
01-26-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
