AltWeeklies Wire
Are Capital Punishment's Financial Costs Worth It?new
The ACLU is touting a new study suggesting that the death penalty is far more expensive than life in prison.
East Bay Express |
Charlie Mintz |
08-18-2010 |
Policy Issues
Tags: ACLU, Death Penalty
Nowhere to Gonew
Baltimore's homeless youth make do in a city that doesn't know they're there.
Baltimore City Paper |
Andrea Appleton |
08-17-2010 |
Policy Issues
Haley's pro-business message would eliminate sales tax reliefnew
Nikki Haley talks a lot about business owners when she is on the stump. As the GOP gubernatorial candidate tells the story, she's the daughter of two entrepreneurs who knew the importance of earning a dollar and what it felt like to have the government take that dollar away. Think about it the next time you're at the market. Haley is ready to put the state's sales tax back on your grocery bill because, well, what the hell have you done to create jobs in South Carolina?
Charleston City Paper |
Greg Hambrick |
08-17-2010 |
Policy Issues
Charter schools: Who's left behind?new
Georgia is now vying for funds from the president's Race to the Top initiative, but the scoring method is backwards
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Susanna Rodell |
08-12-2010 |
Policy Issues
To a red state, from your blue citynew
The changes of the past 50 years in America have been mammoth, and change is scary
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Editorial Board |
08-11-2010 |
Policy Issues
Smoking indoors sucksnew
Why we should ban cigarettes from bars -- or go to prison
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
08-05-2010 |
Policy Issues
Dear future governor: Please don't embarrass usnew
Southern states already are viewed as less sophisticated. The last thing we need is another head of state who plays to stereotype.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Editorial Board |
08-03-2010 |
Policy Issues
Jail Inmates Won't Be Sending Personal Letters Anymorenew
From now on, the only sealed envelopes coming out of the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center will be addressed to lawyers.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
07-30-2010 |
Policy Issues
Tags: Terry Maketa, El Paso County Jail
Classified Addsnew
SFR investigates the New Mexico component of the Washington Post's intelligence project.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
07-28-2010 |
Policy Issues
CNN Solves One 'Credibility' Problem and Creates Anothernew
If expressing an opinion destroyed Nasr's credibility, then why wouldn't policy advocacy also destroy Blitzer's?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
07-22-2010 |
Policy Issues
Tags: CNN, Octavia Nasr
Georgia's Mental Health Skeletonsnew
Since 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice has pursued a civil rights suit on behalf of Georgia's mental health care patients.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cliff Bostock |
07-16-2010 |
Policy Issues
Atlanta's cycling community needs some helpnew
The city must make it easier on cyclists
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Editorial Board |
07-06-2010 |
Policy Issues
Blame for the Gulf Oil Spill is All Around Usnew
The reason BP is drilling miles from the coast is because we need what they're pushing.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Editorial Board |
06-30-2010 |
Policy Issues
Tags: BP
Civil Rights Museum Shouldn’t Be Co-Opted by Cokenew
The legacies of Sweet Auburn and MLK are what give Atlanta the standing to create a top-rank Civil Rights museum. But instead, it will be planted next to the World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
06-21-2010 |
Policy Issues
I Was a Teenage Republicannew
Wedge politics has cost the GOP my vote
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
06-17-2010 |
Policy Issues
