AltWeeklies Wire
Just Business?new
Ken Watford faces years in prison for identity theft, but in the brave new world of corporate personhood, what does that even mean?
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
08-15-2014 |
Features
Drugs and Deathnew
The city of Worcester is coming to terms with the fact that it's in the midst of a heroin epidemic.
Worcester Magazine |
Walter Bird Jr. |
08-15-2014 |
Drugs
Keeping Up With the Dronesnew
Navigating FAA regulations and Tennessee law can be tricky, but drones are here to stay.
Nashville Scene |
Steve Haruch |
08-11-2014 |
Tech
Tags: Drones, Tennessee drone laws
Family of Michael Brown, Teenager Shot to Death By Police, Talks About His Lifenew
Barely 24 hours after a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, his family wanted people to know two things. First, that they would like anyone who is sharing photos of Brown's lifeless body laying in the middle of Canfield Drive to take them down.
Riverfront Times |
Jessica Lussenhop |
08-10-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Michael Brown
City of Boston Testing Facial Recognition Software at Concertsnew
You partied hard at Boston Calling and now there's facial recognition data to prove it.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Kenneth Lipp and Jonathan Riley |
08-08-2014 |
Civil Liberties
The Suddenly Liberal Scott Walkernew
Using left-wing arguments against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke may be the only way he can win re-election.
Transgender at Tennew
Lynne's father refused to believe his son was really a girl. What changed?
Willamette Week |
Kate Willson |
08-08-2014 |
LGBT
Fracking Ban Conversation Moves Toward Constitutional Rightsnew
National attention drawn to Colorado's oil and gas preemption laws.
Boulder Weekly |
Elizabeth Miller |
08-08-2014 |
Energy
The Death of a Local Newspapernew
The 1995 merger of the liberal afternoon Milwaukee Journal with the morning Milwaukee Sentinel was painful for journalism, but the latest drastic turn by Journal Communications could be worse.
Shepherd Express |
Joel McNally |
08-08-2014 |
Media
More Mind, Less Grind: Women of Detroit hip-hopnew
There's a definite shift taking place in Detroit. Women with intelligence in music is nothing new, but the fact that they're banding together, tired of all the institutional bullshit and mainstream-encouraged hyper-sexualization — that is a wonderful thing, and it's happening in Detroit now.
Metro Times |
Brett Callwood |
08-08-2014 |
Music
Living on the Streets of Oaklandnew
The Great Recession may be over, but every night people are sleeping on benches or in makeshift shelters. Here are a few of their stories.
East Bay Express |
David Bacon |
08-08-2014 |
Homelessness
The McDonnell Trial Activity Booknew
Games and puzzles to guide you through the courtroom commotion of the former Virginia governor and first lady.
Style Weekly |
Ned Oliver and Ed Harrington |
07-31-2014 |
Cartoons
The Dark Side of the Boomnew
Prosperity in Texas has a way of rising and falling with the oil business, but not for everyone. What a town becomes a boomtown, those outside the oil business can't keep up.
Houston Press |
Dianna Wray |
07-31-2014 |
Economy
Tags: Texas Oil Economy
Activists Champion Efforts to Divest From Fossil-Fuel Industrynew
Meet Planet Enemy No. 1: The fossil-fuel industry. And meet the new sheriff in town: The growing movement to divest ownership of fossil-fuel stock.
Wisconsin Gazette |
Lisa Neff |
07-31-2014 |
Environment
Who Would Jesus Deport?new
Religious leaders, political figures and hyperbolic talking heads have yet to reach a consensus on the Bible's application to the issue of immigration in the United States.
Jackson Free Press |
Anna Wolfe |
07-31-2014 |
Immigration
