AltWeeklies Wire
Penalizing Homeowners: Ameriquest Mortgage's Smashmouth Loansnew
Ameriquest Mortgage is bringing you the Super Bowl’s halftime extravaganza -- while it roughs up borrowers and encroaches on their homes. Ameriquest has claimed another honor: top political contributor in the mortgage industry, spending nearly $5.6 million to influence November’s elections.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Rich Lord |
01-06-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: business, Richard, Ameriquest, lending, lord, Mortgage, Pittsburgh, predatory, Rich, Super Bowl
Homeland Security Draws Attention From Other Emergenciesnew
California's Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties have gotten millions in homeland-security grants to prepare for chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attacks. But earthquakes worry some emergency officials more than any potential attack by Hezbollah.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
12-27-2004 |
Policy Issues
Voice from the Wildernessnew
Longtime peacemaker Kathy Kelly issues a challenge to "real" counterterrorism.
Metroland |
Rick Marshall |
12-17-2004 |
Policy Issues
Profit or Dienew
Greyhound has already slashed rural service in Montana; is Amtrak next?
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
12-16-2004 |
Policy Issues
Smelling a RATnew
Like a diseased rodent in a shipping container, a very nasty little RAT -- the acronym for the new Recreation Access Tax -- was slipped into the federal Omnibus Spending Bill as a rider last weekend and the consequences are not pretty, especially for those of us living in the West.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
12-02-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Your Parents Are Charging Your Futurenew
The first of the baby boomers will retire in 2008. Their adult children in Generation Debt are understandably nervous about their parents' security -- and by extension, their own.
The Village Voice |
Anya Kamenetz |
12-01-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Workers Compensation Board Softens After 9/11new
New York's Workers Comp Board got less bureaucratic in a hurry after 9/11 -- and some of the changes have stuck.
Metroland |
David King |
11-29-2004 |
Policy Issues
How 9/11 Trumped the Anti-WTO Movementnew
In the shadow of 9/11, the days of 1999 seem positively innocent. Both sides in the anti-globalization debate have their dark, ugly underbellies, and the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have made them very felt in our everyday lives.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
11-24-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Whatever Happened to Key WTO Protest Players?new
A where-are-they-now guide to the Mayor, the Chief, "Hippie Bitch" Forman and other important figures involved -- in one way or another -- with Seattle's WTO protests of 1999.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
11-24-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Why There Won't Be Another 'Seattle'new
As big a disaster as the WTO protests were for almost everyone involved, it was a watershed moment for police. Nowadays, whenever a city hosts a major meeting of the International Monetary Fund, say, Seattle Police Department officials hear from cops who are looking for ways to avoid the mistakes made in Seattle.
Seattle Weekly |
Philip Dawdy |
11-24-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Seattle, Five Years After the WTO Protestsnew
Is this what failure looks like? Third World delegates have gridlocked the WTO but in the U.S. anti-globalization organizers have struggled to convert street heat into policy.
Seattle Weekly |
Geov Parrish |
11-24-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Lives of a Drinker and a Dancer Intersect, Cutting Both Shortnew
A friend insisted on driving Shawn Patrick Scott home the night of Sept. 2, but he split when she was in the restroom. On the highway, he ended dancer Vanessa Marie Fernandez's life as he destroyed his own.
Reno News & Review |
Michael Sion |
11-12-2004 |
Policy Issues
Thieves Pillage HUD-Owned Homesnew
By putting the same lock on every home it repossesses in Ohio, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development seems to invite break-ins. In Cleveland, every house owned by HUD gets looted.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
11-08-2004 |
Policy Issues
Seeking Tax Transparencynew
A Montana legislator sues the state for the right to see corporate tax records. Why are they private in the first place?
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
10-29-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Battleground on the Homefrontnew
Weary homeowners team up to fight homeowner assocations' heavy-handed rules and arbitrary enforcements.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
10-28-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
