AltWeeklies Wire
Buying Legal Weed in Colorado with an Out-of-State IDnew
Can it be done? If so, exactly how much can one buy? Is this real life?
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Desiree Kane |
01-02-2014 |
Drugs
How Enroll America is Connecting Philadelphia Restaurant Workers with Obamacarenew
The reporter follows an Enroll America employee (and former bartender) through Philadelphia as he attempts to teach industry workers about Obamacare.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Randy LoBasso |
01-02-2014 |
Health
Tags: Enroll America
Mississippi Prisons End Conjugal Visitsnew
Launched in the early 1900s, Mississippi’s was the first and longest-running conjugal-visit program in the nation.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
01-02-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Mississippi Prisons
Beer and Bloodnew
Earlier this year, craft beer distributor Ashley "Ash" Rowell was killed in his Houston home. His mother believes she knows who did it, but the cops are being tight-lipped about the investigation. She wants to know why.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
12-27-2013 |
Crime & Justice
The Year in Weednew
Uncle Sam made a historic posture change, Colorado and Washington wrote their pot industry rules, the California Crackdown rolled on, dabs exploded, and the strain Girl Scout Cookies sold out.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
12-27-2013 |
Drugs
Movie Madness: The Best of 2013new
The sweet sixteen, elite eight and final four.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
12-27-2013 |
Movies
Into the Firenew
Residents of Pfeiffer Ridge in Big Sur woke just before midnight Sunday to a wall of flames. Within hours, more than 20 homes—including those of Martha Karstens, chief of the Big Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade—were destroyed.
Monterey County Weekly |
David Schmalz and Mark C. Anderson |
12-20-2013 |
Disasters
Why R. Kelly's Accusers Kept Quietnew
It has been nearly 15 years since music journalist Jim DeRogatis caught the story that has since defined his career, one that he wishes didn't exist: R. Kelly's sexual predation on teenage girls.
The Village Voice |
Jessica Hopper |
12-20-2013 |
The War on Women
We're Constantly in Fear: The Life of a Part-Time Professornew
Interviews with adjunct professors who realize that the colleges and universities that employ them never intend to give them tenure. Most teachers who make a living out of it have to hold down more than one job.
San Diego Reader |
Elizabeth Salaam |
12-18-2013 |
Education
Fieldworknew
New book 'Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies' looks at the sorry state of migrant farmworker health care -- and its larger implications in the global economy.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marke B. |
12-16-2013 |
Immigration
Killing Quardious Thomas: A Castle Doctrine Case Studynew
Mississippi's Castle Doctrine spells out a range of circumstances in which homicide may be justified.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
12-13-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Quardious Thomas
Houston Has a Reading Problemnew
Houston Independent School District students may be able to pass the tests needed to graduate, but that doesn't mean they know how to read.
Houston Press |
Margaret Downing |
12-12-2013 |
Education
Homicide, Revisitednew
Two men want detectives made famous by David Simon to pay after flawed murder convictions put them in prison for decades.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
12-12-2013 |
Crime & Justice
The Paranoid and Obsessive Life of a Mid-Level Bookienew
"When you win and win big, there isn't a better feeling in the world — you're on cloud fuckin' thirty-nine. You want to pop bottles of champagne in the basement because Hawaii won some game."
Cleveland Scene |
Doug Brown |
12-12-2013 |
Features
A Pregnant Pausenew
A look at incidences of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Alberta.
VUE Weekly |
Rebecca Medel |
12-12-2013 |
Health
