AltWeeklies Wire
Paying the Price for Free Speechnew
Karen Lewis' worst crime, in the eyes of federal jailers, may have been talking to the Weekly.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink |
12-07-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A New Kind of Wage Slavenew
Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink |
10-18-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Scariest News May be the Stuff You Haven't Seen Yetnew
This year's Project Censored articles cover issues so weighty that many observers wonder how they could have slipped through the cracks. "The civil liberties aspect of this year's list is personally troubling for many people," director Peter Phillips says.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
10-04-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Too Little, Too Late on Predatory Lendingnew
Predatory lending action is helping some, but the worst may still be ahead.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
09-13-2007 |
Economy
Law Enforcement Abuses Give a Texas County a Black Eyenew
Johnson County suffers, on average, only one or two murders and maybe 50 robberies a year -- and yet, in just two months, inmates reported to Fort Worth Weekly at least half a dozen instances of abuse and serious neglect by jailers, in some cases life-threatening, and out-of-line conduct by various patrol officers.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
09-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Texans Are Fighting Back Against Eminent Domainnew
It is still ripping up lives, but the natives are no longer so naive.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Jeff Prince |
09-07-2007 |
Housing & Development
Policing Speech in Fort Worthnew
A GOP poll and an anti-war protest produce a novel theory on use of city streets.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
09-07-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Deep Watersnew
Haltom City's getting the floods, but Fort Worth's getting the money.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
08-24-2007 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Tase-Manianew
The chorus of voices calling for reform of Taser policies is growing -- and so is the list of deaths.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves |
07-27-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Behind on the Billsnew
The city’s failure to pay on time is causing problems for Eastside senior citizens.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink |
07-12-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Fort Worth's Shaky Foundationnew
HUD says the city has repeatedly botched new construction and home repair projects -- as a result, low-income homeowners are left living in terrible conditions.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Betty Brink and Jessica Bagherpour |
06-28-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
A Gay Cure?new
Things are getting even stranger in the right's campaign to counsel people out of their homosexuality.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Eric Griffey |
06-14-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
The Never-ending Battle Against Warnew
As a major international peace conference gears up in Dallas, peace workers and researchers say the United States and the UN don't appear to have learned many lessons from recent fiascos like Rwanda -- and now, Darfur.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kendall Anderson |
05-24-2007 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Students Want Textbook Publishers to Slow Down on the Updatesnew
The frequent "updating" of textbooks, often for seemingly trivial reasons, prevents college students from being able to sell back those expensive texts -- and means the next round of students will have to buy the new, not the cheaper used, version of the book.
Fort Worth Weekly |
I'sha Gaines |
05-17-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Desiree Fairooz, Freedom Fighternew
She was once a full-time teacher -- now she spends her days protesting the war in Iraq.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Briceida Cervantes |
05-03-2007 |
War
Tags: war in iraq, code pink
