AltWeeklies Wire
The High Cost of Justicenew
Alameda County is now charging high fees to look at court documents online — a new cost that legal experts say may be unconstitutional.
East Bay Express |
Beth Winegarner |
08-13-2014 |
Crime & Justice
The Ebola City Risesnew
If we want to be Gotham, we have to trust Batman.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jessica Blankenship |
08-13-2014 |
Health
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
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
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
Will I Survive Student Debt?new
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York reports that the average student-loan borrower, or masochist, owes about $26,000 in student loans.
Jackson Free Press |
Zachary Orsborn |
08-07-2014 |
Education
Fight For Women, Not Against Themnew
If our politicians are truly concerned about protecting women and children, they should abandon their relentless assault on abortion rights and tackle the real issues facing girls and women in this state.
Jackson Free Press |
JFP Editorial Board |
08-07-2014 |
The War on Women
Charlie Beck in the Crossfirenew
Accessing LAPD reforms, leadership and the contract.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
08-07-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Good Investments: Teaching Texas Inmates About Business Can Turn Criminals Into CEOsnew
The Prison Entrepreneurship Program is a program turning Texas convicts in to Texas businessmen. This isn't just good for the prisoners either- it's good for the general public as well.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
08-06-2014 |
Crime & Justice
LGBT Pols Ready to Play in Statenew
With black folks playing the spoiler in the Mississippi Republican Senate primary, bucking many traditional notions about how politics work in the Magnolia State, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are making a political play of their own.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
08-01-2014 |
LGBT
What Is ‘Common Core’ All About?new
The Common Core, a set of math and English language arts standards that spells out what skills students are expected to master in kindergarten through 12th grade, will be rolled out in every Mississippi school this year.
Jackson Free Press |
Jackie Mader and The Hechinger Report |
08-01-2014 |
Education
