AltWeeklies Wire
Immigrants Denied Mental Health Servicesnew
When Cardinal Innovations quietly assumed local management of public mental health services in Orange and Chatham counties last April, they brought with them a policy to deny Medicaid reimbursements for the treatment of undocumented immigrants.
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
03-21-2013 |
Immigration
Like a Bad Rash, N.C. Voter ID Bill Returnsnew
In North Carolina, 506,000 active registered voters don't have photo ID: 31 percent are African-American, 66 percent are women, 26 percent are seniors and 53 percent are Democrats, compared to 23 percent who are Republican.
Tags: North Carolina Voter ID
Now that we're all curators, what is Diplo?new
More than a decade after Hollertronix 1, it often seems like Diplo now needs us more than we need him.
Tags: Diplo
The Link Between Climate Change and the Food on Your Platenew
The results of climate change are already altering the way crops pollinate, mature and produce. Over time, they could change what we eat and when we eat it.
INDY Week |
Lisa Sorg |
03-06-2013 |
Environment
What do the transgendered owe their families?new
How can the NYT's Ethicist columnist tell a reader to not transition for the benefit of her family? She is part of her family; her misery also becomes part of the family. How can such misery be confined?
Tags: transgender
U.S. History According to Charles Kochnew
The conservative billionaire could be teaching your kids.
Tags: Charles Koch
Cory Doctorow on the teen imagination, paranoia and the late Aaron Swartznew
"It's very hard to adequately understand, in advance, the cost of privacy disclosures and of privacy breaches. Because privacy and its consequences are separated by a lot of time and space."
The Miseducation of Pat McCrorynew
In an ethics course, topics might include: Is it ethical to shut poor people out of health care because the boys at the country club—and in the General Assembly—already have health care?
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
02-06-2013 |
Commentary
Tags: health care, liberal arts
This year's Oscar shorts, in four programsnew
There's a strong crop of Animated Short Film nominees this year, and unusually, none of the nominees are CGI. In fact, there's a welcome return of old-school animation, with hand-drawn and stop-motion animation among the candidates.
Battered but unbowed, Mike Daisey brings his new show to Durhamnew
American Utopias—which tackles Burning Man, Disney World and Zuccotti Park, the locus of Occupy Wall Street—is an outgrowth of Daisey's long interest in mythmaking and totemic objects.
Tags: Mike Daisey
Why Hyperlocal Websites Like New Raleigh Can't Make Money Onlinenew
Three years ago, media analysts were calling community-driven websites the trend to watch. But like most hyperlocal news sites, New Raleigh never found a way to translate its influence and readership into profit.
Tags: New Raleigh
After three decades, Yo La Tengo isn't ready for definition just yetnew
"I've always felt that if we're playing it, it's us. It's a legitimate part of our lives and our personalities, and something that we feel so strongly about that we committed it to a record."
Can Kickstarter Stick Around?new
Is crowd funding destined to hit critical mass and implode, or will the crowdsourcing model enter and sustain itself within the larger cultural dialogue?
Matt Damon's anti-fracking Promised Landnew
It's hard to achieve high-minded aims using this single-minded script, acting and filmmaking acumen.
David Chase's feature debut, the nostalgic Not Fade Awaynew
While The Sopranos creator still has trouble knowing how to end a story, he does know how to pen a love letter to rock 'n' roll.
