AltWeeklies Wire
No Man's Landnew
If a homeless person is shot in the woods, do the police really care?
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
01-14-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Sheriff Kevin Beary vs. Deputies, Againnew
A police union files a grievance against the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
01-07-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A Quest to Discover Why I Should Oppose Gay Marriagenew
I set out to ask a few Central Floridians what exactly being "against gay marriage" means. Could I find even one good reason why I, too, should sign that Florida4Marriage.org petition and so aggressively "defend marriage"?
Orlando Weekly |
Omar De La Rosa |
12-18-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Does Curbside Recycling Really Do Any Good?new
Curbside recycling is better at assuaging the guilt we collectively feel as ever-hungry consumers than it is at doing something positive for the environment. As such, it's a public-policy crutch.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
12-06-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Don't Get Bustednew
Pulled over with a dime bag in your glove compartment? Attorney Roger Scott wants you to know your rights.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
11-29-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Bill McCollum's Reefer Madnessnew
If you believe Florida attorney general Bill McCollum, weed is stronger than ever. But his dire warnings are scarier than what the facts support.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
11-29-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
Imitate Borat, Lose Jobnew
Between 9:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Nov. 2, Universal Orlando valet Steve Barton and some co-workers took their dinner break and walked upstairs to order coffee at a Starbucks. Barton decided to order his latte while impersonating Borat Sagdiyev, the fictional Kazakh journalist and alter ego of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
11-27-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Future is ... Now?new
The future, insofar as transportation goes, is a dud. The people movers, monorails and flying cars Hollywood promised a generation ago are nowhere to be found. In Florida, such innovations as bullet trains and light rail are nonstarters.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
11-27-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
The Cost of Warnew
Governing is, at its simplest level, about prioritizing. Every dollar spent on the Mesopotamian civil war could be spent here. Here's a look at what some of that war money could buy.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-25-2007 |
War
Operation MBI Shamenew
On the heels of the agency's arrest of three Weekly employees, we take a closer look at how Orlando's vice cops really operate.
Orlando Weekly |
Staff |
10-23-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Things Fall Apartnew
Four years ago, the city entrusted developer Cameron Kuhn with saving downtown Orlando. How's that going, anyway?
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
10-18-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
26 Years: Bill Dillon's Dubious Imprisonmentnew
Convicted of a gruesome beachside murder in 1981 and sentenced to life in prison, Dillon has largely been forgotten -- but the legal proceedings that put him away can only generously be termed a "trial."
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
10-11-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Keep Your Matrimony -- I've Got Mantrimonynew
I'm getting married to a man, and there's nothing supporters of a Florida constitutional amendment to define marriage as only between a man and woman can do about it.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
10-04-2007 |
LGBT
Tags: gay & lesbian issues
Beyond the Box: Orlando's War on Panhandlingnew
The latest in a long history of the city's attempts to curtail panhandling in Orlando, efforts that landed the city on the National Coalition for the Homeless' list of the 20 meanest cities in America in 2003.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
09-20-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.new
Three weeks of local TV news demonstrates one thing: you are in grave danger.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman |
09-20-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
