AltWeeklies Wire
Nurses' Union Joins Antidevelopment Forces to Prevent a New Hospital from Being Builtnew
There's something to be said for exploiting the process of issuing building permits for squeezing public amenities like parks from companies. But in San Francisco, participants in these sorts of tactics sometimes lose sight of all that's at stake.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
02-04-2009 |
Housing & Development
Whose Side Are the Angels On?new
A new generation of activists is fighting to clean up the Tenderloin -- frequently dubbed San Francisco's worst neighborhood. The neighborhood’s churches are standing in their way.
Long Cheng Livestock Market Slays Your Meal in Front of Younew
A St. Paul slaughterhouse lets you watch as your dinner is butchered.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rachel Hutton |
02-04-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: butchers, Twin Cities
Radiohead Cover Band Seeks to Unlock Thom Yorke's Geniusnew
What's That? recreate some of modern rock's most complex songs.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Bradley Campbell |
02-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Proud and Unbowed: Chattanooga’s African American Historynew
African American history is American history. There is no excuse not to learn the history that paved the way for their existence.
Feeling Left Outnew
Advocates for low-income communities wish the stimulus wish list wasn't so skewed toward wealthier neighborhoods.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis |
02-04-2009 |
Economy
San Francisco Mayor's Budget: More Hungry Homeless People, More Deaths at SF Generalnew
On the ground, the budget cuts San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is proposing translate into staggering losses in services that segments of the city's most disadvantaged populations rely on.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=7986&catid=4 |
02-04-2009 |
Economy
Tags: San Francisco, economic issues
Some Portlanders See a Double Standardnew
A city leader loses his job when the public learns embarrassing details of an affair he’d cultivated in his past. Portland Mayor Sam Adams’ current predicament? No. It’s the situation faced in 2006 by then-Police Chief Derrick Foxworth.
Willamette Week |
James Pitkin |
02-04-2009 |
Politics
Laika Launches 'Coraline,' and Its Creators Wonder: What Now?new
There are fewer than 1,000 people in the world who specialize in stop-motion animation. Many of the 30 animators who worked on Coraline, as well as the more than 250 technicians and designers who labored alongside them, came to Portland with the hope that Laika represented something more stable.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
02-04-2009 |
Movies
Ending a Gang Rivalry, or Catching Bystanders in Its Net?new
Is a popular legal weapon putting an end to a 30-year-old gang rivalry in South Orange County, or catching innocent bystanders in its net?
OC Weekly |
Daffodil J. Altan |
02-03-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: gangs, Orange County
Flight Attendants Are Paying the Price for Speaking Upnew
Never mind that three flight attendants may well have saved America West Flight 851. The whistleblowers are on their own.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
02-03-2009 |
Business & Labor
Theirs Could Have Been Web 2.0's Wonder-Boy Success Storynew
Set to make millions with their YouTube-beating technology, the upstarts in Lifted Logic found a better market for their talents.
The Mutual Benefits Fallout for South Florida Politicians Is Still Comingnew
The practice of legislators recommending lobbyists is odious. They are supposed to be agents of the people, not lobbyists for lobbyists.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Bob Norman |
02-03-2009 |
Politics
Houston's Animal Shelter Just Can't Get Its Act Togethernew
Houston's Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care doesn't seem to be anyone's problem, except for the animals who live the last weeks, days and hours of their lives there. Right now, the best we can do is hope for change.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
02-03-2009 |
Animal Issues
Liberals Drink Here: An Interview with Richard Lingemannew
About 10 years ago, Richard Lingeman, The Nation’s senior editor and longtime executive editor, came up with the idea of providing readers with a way to connect with the history of the left, as well as with other like-minded Americans.
Weekly Alibi |
Erin Adair-Hodges |
02-03-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
