AltWeeklies Wire
Adapting to Climate Changenew
We know climate change is coming. How will we adapt to it? Here's what we'll have to do to live in the new normal.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
04-26-2011 |
Environment
Tags: Climate Change
The Foreclosure Fiasconew
Bank of America is playing a lot of financial tricks in Hawaii and local families are needlessly losing their homes.
Honolulu Weekly |
Lucy Jokiel |
04-26-2011 |
Housing & Development
Medical Marijuana Closer to Legalization in CTnew
Rhode Island and New Jersey aren’t often put in the beacons-of-light category, but Connecticut is right now looking to those two states to help illuminate the tricky pathway toward state-sanctioned growing and sale of medical marijuana.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
04-26-2011 |
Drugs
O, Bobby Jindal, Where Art Thou?new
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's national ambitions are leaving his constituents in the dust.
Gambit |
Clancy DuBos |
04-26-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
Got a Prom Date? Disney Hopes You Do
What starts out as an all-too-formulaic teen romantic comedy settles into a forgivably recipe-driven think piece on the milestone significance of that unique social gathering known as the prom.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
04-26-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Joe Nussbaum, PROM
Government in Actionnew
Coming soon in Arizona: longer ER waits, lots of job losses and a whole bunch more sick people.
Tucson Weekly |
Dave Devine |
04-25-2011 |
Policy Issues
Michigan-Style Financial Bill May Still Be in the Works for Wisconsinnew
After "financial martial law" was enacted in Michigan in the midst of the Wisconsin protests over Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union agenda, questions started bubbling as to whether or not similar legislation was in the works for the Badger State.
Tags: Wisconsin, Scott Walker
Thrifty Families and Other Lies
We Americans value thrift and personal responsibility. We believe we should live within our means. These cultural ideals stem from our Puritan history. But we don't live up to our ideals. Not even close.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-25-2011 |
Policy Issues
Behind the Controversial Anthology of Rapnew
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. called The Anthology of Rap "an essential contribution to our living literary tradition," while Chuck D said it "might just break the commercial trance that's had rap in a chokehold for the past several years." But it's also the hip-hop tale of AWOL fathers and fractured identities, of bitter duels and fiery smackdowns.
Closed Door Policy: Conservative Policies Close Canada's Bordersnew
While Conservatives have spent the last five years in power publicly trying to build up their "ethnic vote," the party has also been responsible for closing Canada's doors to immigrants and refugees.
VUE Weekly |
Samantha Power |
04-25-2011 |
Immigration
'The Worst Place in the World to Be a Woman'new
Between stints abroad, trauma psychologist Dr. Victoria Bentley talks about helping raped Congolese women and their families.
Santa Barbara Independent |
Julie Epstein |
04-25-2011 |
International
GOP Lawmakers Pushing Restrictive Welfare-Reform Billsnew
Advocates for low-income Pennsylvanians are sounding the alarm about a package of bills in Harrisburg that places serious roadblocks in front of anyone seeking assistance through food stamps, welfare or other social services.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Kate Giammarise |
04-25-2011 |
Politics
The Elephant in the Classroomnew
Split liberal ticket, outside GOP group help conservatives sweep Colorado University student elections.
Boulder Weekly |
Chelsea Long |
04-25-2011 |
Education
Tags: Colorado University, GOP
Stephen Harper Promised Change but Delivered More of the Samenew
Stephen Harper's five-year reign of muzzling media, ‘dunderhead’ economics and ethics failure.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Trevor Scott Howell |
04-25-2011 |
Elections
Nation's Leading Pro-Marijuana Group Is Too White to Succeednew
Image is everything, and the absence of minorities within NORML has created the perception that the organization is primarily working to ensure that the white pot smokers of the world can get high without worry.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
04-25-2011 |
Policy Issues
Tags: NORML, Marijuana Reform
