AltWeeklies Wire
Homeless veterans in Winston-Salem find opportunities for housing
Teri Hairston, a program assistant for United Way of Forsyth County, made a triumphant entrance into a conference room at Bethesda Center for the Homeless waving a survey.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
08-02-2012 |
Homelessness
Tags: Homelessness, homeless veterans
Winston-Salem council raises taxes and cuts managerial positions
The Winston-Salem City Council voted to raise taxes by 3.4 percent, passing a budget with significant spending cuts that is expected to result in the elimination of about a dozen professional and management jobs, delayed fleet and equipment replacement, less money for street maintenance and reductions in travel spending.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
06-25-2012 |
Politics
ACLU lawsuit challenges second-parent adoption ban
When you’re adopting, everyone says you should submit for multiple children and not to set your heart on one kid. The process is often arduous and potentially disappointing.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
06-25-2012 |
Politics
Tags: second-parent adoption
Food stamps glitch strands thousands in N.C.
The Department of Social Services has been scrambling to fix unanticipated problems with implementing a food stamps pilot program that left thousands of Guilford County residents without access to food.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
06-25-2012 |
Politics
The Dos and Don'ts of the Chinese Buffet
The Chinese buffet — all buffets, in fact — is a value proposition, costing a bit more than a regular lunch but if you do it right, you can get your money’s worth and then some.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
06-19-2012 |
Food+Drink
Tags: Chinese Buffet
Good Times, Great Oldies
Bonnaroo 2012 brings out a few old friends.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
06-19-2012 |
Concerts
Tags: Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo 2012
Retired FBI agent: Kalvin Michael Smith deserves new trial
The latest chapter in the ongoing saga surrounding the brutal 1995 beating a store clerk has culminated with a respected retired FBI assistant director calling for a new trial for Kalvin Michael Smith, the man convicted of the crime almost 15 years ago.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
06-19-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Jill Marker, Kalvin Michael Smith
School’s in: Alice Cooper defiling a new generation
Alice Cooper hates you, he hates your music and he especially hates golf.
YES! Weekly |
Ryan Snyder |
06-19-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alice Cooper, bonaroo
The rise and fall and rise of the creative class
Richard Florida's 2002 book The Rise of the Creative Class was hailed as the salvation for struggling cities, a brilliant new approach to sociological and cultural changes, a paradigm for economic development, and a way to attract the best and brightest to a metro area.
YES! Weekly |
Ogi Overman |
06-18-2012 |
Features
Occupy Winston-Salem protests Novant Health layoffs
About 16 people picketed across the street from Forsyth Medical Center last week to protest job cuts by the hospital’s nonprofit owner, Novant Health.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
06-14-2012 |
#OCCUPY
Art Rises from the Ruins in Detroit
Detroit, site of the AAN convention last weekend, is a city with an infrastructure built for 2 million people that supports a population about a third of that size.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
06-14-2012 |
Art
Wage Theft
At some point, you just give up.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
06-14-2012 |
Business & Labor
Tags: living wage, wage theft
Occupy Greensboro Hunkers Down
It may not be as flashy as a protest or as visible as an encampment, but Occupy Greensboro is hunkering down to fight a prolonged struggle. With a combination of veteran organizers and freshly minted activists, the eight-month-old group has dug its heels into its regular meeting space at Glenwood Coffee & Books to take on a spread of causes, especially around energy production and housing foreclosures.
YES! Weekly |
Eric Ginsburg |
06-14-2012 |
#OCCUPY
Tags: #OCCUPY, Occupy greensboro
The Silver Ball
The AC/DC Limited Edition Let There Be Rock pinball table has two side ramps that trigger specials and jackpots.
YES! Weekly |
Brian Clarey |
06-14-2012 |
Recreation
Tags: ac/dc pinball table
Gender and age separate two change-making candidates in N.C. District 71new
Everette Witherspoon, a 34-year-old Forsyth County commissioner announced he was running for a seat in the NC General Assembly the day Larry Womble announced he wasn't.
YES! Weekly |
Jordan Green |
04-26-2012 |
Elections
