AltWeeklies Wire
Will Litigate for Foodnew
Alumni say Florida Coastal School of Law exaggerated job opportunities, leaving them unable to pay their crippling student debt. Now they want a refund.
Folio Weekly |
Claire Goforth |
07-20-2012 |
Education
The World’s Most Expensive Male Prostitutenew
Loved by aristocrats and immortalized in literature, Denham Fouts remains virtually unknown in his own hometown.
Folio Weekly |
Richard Wall |
06-20-2012 |
Features
Everything, Illuminatednew
How one alt weekly journalist managed to shed light on the darkest human experience.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
04-27-2012 |
Media
Tags: The Stranger, Eli Sanders
Road Tripnew
A rural road-paving project becomes an environmental disaster for JEA – with a potentially hefty price tag.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
03-21-2012 |
Environment
(No) Sympathy for the Devilnew
Tarot readings and nekkid mannequins draw retaliatory prayer sessions from local Baptists.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
03-21-2012 |
Religion
What Lies Beneathnew
The environmental horror of Florida's Rodman Dam and a lesson in rivers: past, present and future.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
03-21-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Ocklawaha River, Rodman Dam
Cristian Conversionnew
Baby-faced murder defendant Cristian Fernandez upends perception and reality in the Northeast Florida criminal justice system.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
02-07-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Cristian Fernandez
Rainbow's Endnew
The effort to end discrimination against gays in Jacksonville is muzzled by a conspiracy of silence
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
01-11-2012 |
LGBT
Folks Like Usnew
The racist local reception to the new owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
12-16-2011 |
Race & Class
Going Viralnew
A 2010 tuberculosis outbreak highlights the shocking failure of a Florida Health Department to contain the crisis or warn the public.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
12-06-2011 |
Health
The Bitter Endnew
For someone living — and dying — with a terminal illness, options for a merciful, dignified death are scant and pitiless.
Folio Weekly |
Anne M. Johnson |
11-14-2011 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: terminal illness, right to die
The Florida Times-Union’s Very Bad Daynew
The Florida Times-Union’s announcement that it was going to shed another 9.5 percent of its already anemic workforce was met, not surprisingly, with shock and disappointment. Employees, who’ve watched as dozens of high-profile, high-powered colleagues have jumped ship in recent months, reacted with slack-jawed horror as the ax fell on the diminished newsroom.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
09-02-2011 |
Media
Exploitative Scumbag or Entrepreneur With a Heart? Meet Mr. Showbiz!
He's reviled for trying to sell a doll in the likeness of a murdered 2-year-old girl. He's being prosecuted for defrauding customers who tried to buy his Michael Vick Chew Toy. But just who is Jaime Salcedo, and how does he live with himself?
Folio Weekly |
Gwynedd Stuart |
06-10-2009 |
Business & Labor
Paperless Trail: Suing the City to Obtain 'Public' Records
When Folio Weekly began asking for financial records related to the Jacksonville Jaguars stadium renovations and 2005 Super Bowl expenditures, city officials claimed no such records existed. In fact, they ultimately turned over 25 boxes worth of information. All it took was three years, and $9,000 in attorneys fees.
Folio Weekly |
Marvin Edwards |
10-07-2008 |
Policy Issues
Under the Bridgenew
AltWeeklies Award - Photography
Folio Weekly |
Walter Coker |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
