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Spying on Canadiansnew

National security calls it defence against terrorism, others call it unconstitutional.

VUE Weekly | Ryan Stephens | 06-19-2013 | Civil Liberties

@KYAnonymousnew

Kentuckian Deric Lostutter made the Steubenville rape case a national story. Now he may go to jail for it.

LEO Weekly | Joe Sonka | 06-19-2013 | Crime & Justice

Selling Out Moonshinenew

Business is killing a culture as North Carolinian as NASCAR, one jar at a time.

Creative Loafing (Charlotte) | Ana McKenzie | 06-19-2013 | Food+Drink

Tags: moonshine, drinking, Moonshiners, moonshine cocktail

Black Daysnew

First the Waldo Canyon fire, now the Black Forest fire. Should Colorado just expect huge wildfires from now on?

Colorado Springs Independent | J. Adrian Stanley | 06-19-2013 | Environment

Tags: climate change, Black Forest fire

Marriage Equality Is Great And All, But...new

Cleveland's LGBT community is focused on more important things right now.

Cleveland Scene | Eric Sandy | 06-19-2013 | LGBT

The Evolution of Dan Savagenew

How the wiseass gay theater kid at the video store became America's most trusted and outspoken sex advocate.

Boulder Weekly | David Accomazzo | 06-14-2013 | Culture

Portrait of a Shattered Familynew

Murder destroyed Charity Lee's family, forever altered her concept of justice.

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 06-13-2013 | Crime & Justice

Sean Parker's Big Sur Vanity Wedding Falloutnew

Facebook co-founder Sean Parker spent millions on his recent Big Sur wedding, but when he rented a campground from the upscale Ventana Inn & Spa, he rented "an ongoing California Coastal Act" violation. Turns out, that campground should have been opened to the public years ago under Ventana's permit.

Monterey County Weekly | Kera Abraham | 06-13-2013 | Environment

Nuclear Islandnew

As the world abandons nuclear plans, South Carolina digs in.

Columbia Free Times | Corey Hutchins | 06-12-2013 | Energy

Tags: nuclear energy

The Somerville Filesnew

The first installment in a multi-part series about the intersection of politics, development, and power in the City of Somerville.

Dig Boston | Chris Faraone, Tom Nash and Adam Vaccaro | 06-12-2013 | Crime & Justice

Dow Chemical Tries to Avoid Hot Water in Worker’s Deathnew

Brian Johns suffered chemical burns over 65 percent of his body in a Deer Park plant explosion. A representative of his company, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical, tried to tell doctors Johns had just encountered some really hot water.

Houston Press | Dianna Wray | 06-12-2013 | Business & Labor

From Motown to Coketownnew

The petroleum byproduct known as "petcoke," which is derived from an extraction process involving tar-like bitumen from the oil sands of Alberta, Canada, and is turned into gasoline and other fuels sits, exposed, along the bank of the Detroit River. Everyone agrees it is unsightly, but is it unsafe, too?

Metro Times | Curt Guyette | 06-12-2013 | Environment