AltWeeklies Wire
Hawk Murders Pigeonnew
A harrowing tale of avian assault. With photos.
North Coast Journal |
Ryan Burns |
03-26-2012 |
Animal Issues
Tags: birds, Homicidal Hawk
The Columbine Effectnew
Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood still obsessed with this one?
Buying the Farmnew
Cleveland wants its citizens eating local by 2019. But is it doing enough to make that happen?
Cleveland Scene |
Anastasia Pantsios |
03-26-2012 |
Policy Issues
Bullied to Deathnew
Louisiana lawmakers are trying to pass anti-bullying legislation -- meet the groups that are fighting its passage.
Gambit |
Alex Woodward |
03-26-2012 |
Policy Issues
Your Hangover Makes You Smarternew
Years of experimenting have yielded facts that strongly support my central hypothesis: namely that the hungover brain is able to make creative leaps that the nonhungover brain is incapable of making.
Chicago Reader |
Mara Shalhoup |
03-23-2012 |
Science
In the Pathnew
A tornado descends, damages and unites.
LEO Weekly |
Anne Marshall |
03-22-2012 |
Disasters
Young and Sick: The New Face of Kidney Cancer?new
I'm 34. I have cancer. The same kind of cancer that killed my dad.
Metro Pulse |
Cari Wade Gervin |
03-22-2012 |
Health
Mississippi Man Sentenced for Hate-Crime Murdernew
Deryl Dedmon, a white man, will spend life in prison for the murder of James Craig Anderson, a black man, last year.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
03-22-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Lowering the Boomnew
Houston's Dekaney High, whose motto is "Whatever It Takes," is a bombing or shooting waiting to happen.
Houston Press |
Steve Jansen |
03-21-2012 |
Education
What Lies Beneathnew
The environmental horror of Florida's Rodman Dam and a lesson in rivers: past, present and future.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
03-21-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Ocklawaha River, Rodman Dam
The Nonprofit 1 Percentnew
Even the do-gooders can seem blind to their own excess.
The Village Voice |
Steven Thrasher |
03-21-2012 |
Features
Life in Prison for Hempnew
José Peña brought some roadside weeds home from Kansas. Cops decided it was reefer, and a Texas court sentenced him to life in prison – without the evidence. It took a decade for Peña to get back some of the pieces of his life.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
03-21-2012 |
Drugs
Louisiana's Medicaid Billing Snafunew
Clinics are having problems with Louisiana's newly privatized Medicaid billing for some health services.
'Stand Your Ground'new
It's been three weeks since a Sanford, Fla. vigilante, George Zimmerman, shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death, apparently for looking suspicious – and, according to Zimmerman's own words, for being black and wearing a hoodie. What's taking so long for police to arrest Zimmerman?
Orlando Weekly |
Erin Sullivan |
03-19-2012 |
Crime & Justice
15 Awesome SXSW Interactive Panels Every Journalist Should Listen Tonew
If you're willing to spend the next few weeks listening, you can get almost as much out of Austin as the muckety-mucks who actually attend.
Boston Phoenix |
Carly Carioli |
03-19-2012 |
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