AltWeeklies Wire
Tough Lesson in Gun Buyingnew
Amaya Hanshaw joined the Air Force under the GI Bill so she could pay for college later. Instead, she might be starting a prison sentence for buying two pistols.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Rebecca Ford |
07-22-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Faces of Methnew
Follow three men and their battle with the little white powder, better know as Crystal Meth.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
07-21-2005 |
Science
Tags: crystalmeth
Cancer Progressed Despite Alternative Therapynew
A 72-year-old cancer patient who turned to a radical organic diet as alternative treatment finds disappointing results.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
07-14-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Four Atlanta CEOs and their Tales of Good Fortunenew
Atlanta's top CEOs can immerse their companies in scandal, drive business into the ground, watch stock values plummet and still live like kings.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Micheal Wall |
07-14-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Fate of Georgia's Fortsnew
The seemingly losing battle to save four Georgia military bases -- and 6,000 military and civilian jobs -- has state and local officials debating what to do with the properties, should the bases close.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
07-07-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Racial Healing In Mississippinew
Two men reveal the worst and the best of the South -- Edgar Ray Killen, and the man who helped put him behind bars.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
06-30-2005 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
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
Ikea Opens on Site of Old Industrial Wastelandnew
The June 29 opening of Ikea, a Swedish home furnishing store, at the mega-development Atlantic Station will mark a major milestone in Atlanta's growth into an actual metropolis, like Chicago or Boston.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
06-23-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Roses for an Unmarked Killing Fieldnew
In his blog, John Sugg follows the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, accused of the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
06-16-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Setback For Imprisoned Mannew
After 13 years in prison, a Georgia man sought to prove that evidence used to convict him of armed robbery has since been discredited. But he was denied.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Coley Ward |
06-16-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Southern Co. Tackles Global Warming ...or Does It?new
Southern Co. is making progress when it comes to pollution reduction, spending $6 billion on controls for sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and mercury. But that money will do nothing to combat global warming.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
06-09-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Mountain Families Clash With Environmentalistsnew
It's a conflict where both sides are right, each in their own way, and no one is a villain -- except the federal government, but that goes without saying.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
06-02-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Neal Horsley Admits Mule Was First Girlfriendnew
Here's the transcript of FOX News Radio host Alan Colmes' interview with Neal Horsley, in which the anti-abortion activist is asked to respond to media reports that he admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Wall |
05-19-2005 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Cable News Networks Love White Chicksnew
This country is crazy about white chicks, especially when they've been kidnapped, ravaged or killed. But what about the black 16-year-old who disappeared on her way to class?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
05-12-2005 |
Media
72-Year-Old Woman Chooses Radical Therapy to Fight Cancernew
At a dead end with mainstream medicine, a woman with inoperable cancer turns to alternative and natural remedies developed by German physician Max Gerson in the late 1920s.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
05-12-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
