AltWeeklies Wire
Rough Seas Aheadnew

Will the economy, the oil spill, and Afghanistan conspire to sink Obama's presidency?
Boston Phoenix |
David Bernstein |
07-15-2010 |
Commentary
Guns, Government and Elvis: as Texan as Chicken-Fried Steaknew
Among the groups who can bypass metal detectors at the Texas Capitol: legislators; state workers; and those who have concealed-carry licenses. No joke.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dave McNeely |
07-14-2010 |
Commentary
S.C. Gov Candidate on Arrest Record: I Beat the S#!t out of Six Punksnew
Morgan Bruce Reeves, South Carolina’s independent write-in candidate for governor, is pissed after seeing his arrest record posted online
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
07-13-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Morgan Bruce Reeves
Undoing the New Deal?new
The dismantling of Social Security and Medicare was Obama's campaign promise nobody heard, and until recently, change was only at a snails pace. That's destined to change with a recent decision by the House of Representatives.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-09-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Social Security
Abel Maldonado is a Smooth Operatornew
Abel Maldonado is playing the angles in his long shot race to be elected lieutenant governor of California.
Monterey County Weekly |
Jessica Lyons |
07-07-2010 |
Politics
Israel’s Mystic Pullnew
What exactly is a Jew -- and do his first loyalties lie with Israel?
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
06-25-2010 |
Commentary
Political Learned Helplessness
Battered and bruised, with no apparent way out, the American electorate has plunged into a political state of learned helplessness as Republicans stand to benefit this fall.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-24-2010 |
Commentary
GOP Lightnew

How the Democratic Party lost its way and screwed the working poor.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
06-17-2010 |
Politics
The Mysterious Alvin Greenenew

Unemployed, a potential felon and a political nobody, Alvin Greene came out of nowhere to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. How’d he do it?
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
06-16-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Alvin Greene
South Carolina: The Friskiest Statenew

What is it about South Carolina that has national media outlets calling it "sultry," "randy," full of "extramarital madness" and "America's friskiest state?"
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
06-02-2010 |
Politics
S.C. Gov. Hopeful Henry McMaster: Slumlord Millionaire?new

As the dailies covered his debates and ad campaigns, the Columbia Free Times interviewed two dozen tenants of a gubernatorial frontrunner and investigated the management of his rental properties over the years to find out if Henry McMaster really is...a slumlord millionaire.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
05-31-2010 |
Politics
Republican Pundits Embrace Orwellian B.S. Tacticsnew
Republican Newspeak, that anti-intellectual, substance-abusing language style that gave us such zingy propaganda phrases as “Death Tax” and “death panels” is generally so deliriously truthless it would make even a discriminating Nigerian SPAM artist blush.
Hartford Advocate |
Cintra Wilson |
05-26-2010 |
Commentary
Tags: Rand Paul
Recruiting Tolerancenew
Radical-right religious groups spouting hate against gays should consider the example of Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel.
Fort Worth Weekly |
E.R. Bills |
05-26-2010 |
Commentary
Will Folks Admitted to Haley Affair a Year Agonew
Former Mark Sanford spokesman Will Folks privately admitted a year ago to having a brief extramarital affair with GOP gubernatorial contender S.C. Rep. Nikki Haley, according to a Palmetto State Republican political operative.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
05-24-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Nikki Haley, Will Folks
The High Cost of Free Marketsnew

A lack of regulation invites oil spills and financial collapse.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Kadzis |
05-21-2010 |
Commentary