AltWeeklies Wire
Pro-Life Cause Gets on the Ballot in Californianew
A California initiative that would make it harder for teens to get abortions pits young girls against ... an alternative-newspaper publisher?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jeffrey M. Barker |
06-10-2005 |
Sex
The Three-Chord Sound of Homenew
Soldiers in Iraq find solace in punk music, but a band that played for them was met with angry anti-war protest.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jimmy Calanchini |
05-13-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
War-Zone Pollsternew
Steven Moore set up shop in Baghdad as an opinion pollster and focus-group organizer in the chaotic environs of Iraq.
Sacramento News & Review |
Sasha Abramsky |
05-06-2005 |
International
Tags: international
Star in a Jar?new
Miracle or pipe-dream? A working nuclear-fusion reactor uses bubbles to produce power at a fraction of today's energy costs and creates almost no pollution.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
04-29-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Soldier's Storynew
A Marine, killed in Iraq, leaves behind an extended family with differing opinions about the war.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
03-25-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Bringing Down a Damnew
It was 1923 when engineers flooded Yosemite's magnificent Hetch Hetchy Valley. If building the O'Shaughnessy Dam can be seen as a glorious accomplishment of the 20th century, would tearing it down be a worthy testament to the 21st?
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
01-24-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Here Come the Wobblies!new
In a labor battle with roots dating back 100 years, independent truckers and Starbucks employees are now joining the wild and contentious Wobblies.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
01-14-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Gary Webb Remembered in Others' Words and His Ownnew
History, supporters believe, will continue to reveal the importance of the work of the late Gary Webb, whose series and book, Dark Alliance, explored the ties among the CIA, the Nicaraguan contras, Los Angeles street gangs and the explosion of crack cocaine.
Sacramento News & Review |
Bill Forman and Melinda Walsh |
12-17-2004 |
Media
Army's New Plan Is to Combat Stress at the Frontnew
A counselor at the Sacramento Veterans Center, Sandra Moreno, just did a tour in Iraq as part of a “combat stress company.” The new military program tries to help soldiers handle stress while they’re still serving with their companies.
Sacramento News & Review |
Chrisanne Beckner |
12-16-2004 |
War
Marine Reservist Feels Aftershocks From Iraqnew
Richard Sandoval still hears ringing in his ears from the rockets that flew overhead in Iraq. "The hardest thing for me was..." he begins again and again, describing so many hard things.
Sacramento News & Review |
Chrisanne Beckner |
12-14-2004 |
War
Taguba's Revenge?new
Sacramento Sgt. Marc Guzman accuses the Iraq-prison-scandal hero of threatening soldiers.
Sacramento News & Review |
Michael Pulley |
11-26-2004 |
War
Tags: war & peace
The Killing Gamenew
For young men, first-person shooters are the hottest computer games around. That’s why the Army’s spent $10 million making one of its own. But there’s a catch. Big Brother gets to watch you play. The Army knows who the best video players are, and Uncle Sam could be calling on them soon.
Sacramento News & Review |
Gary Webb |
10-13-2004 |
War
Patient Narrates His Own Brain Surgerynew
Joel Davis gets inside his own head by writing about what it's like to be conscious during brain surgery. The surgery is one more move in an ongoing effort to live as normal a life as is possible with Parkinson's disease.
Sacramento News & Review |
Joel Davis |
08-20-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Do the Governator's Reform Promises Lack Muscle?new
Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California with a historic mandate for reform, but so far he’s abandoned one political reform effort, opposed another and taken more special-interest money than the much-maligned former governor, Gray Davis.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jeff Kearns |
08-16-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Robert McNamara's Son Pursues Passion for Social Justicenew
Raised during his father's war, California organic farmer Craig McNamara cultivates fields and minds.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
08-07-2004 |
Environment
Tags: environment
