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Fighting for Justicianew

Workers Defense Project celebrates 10 years on the front lines of Texas labor.

Austin Chronicle | Nora Ankrum | 09-24-2012 | Business & Labor

Tags: latino, worker's rights

The New Journalismnew

Vibrant media landscape exists in Oklahoma despite vexing questions of sustainability and coverage.

Urban Tulsa Weekly | Jaime Adame | 09-24-2012 | Media

Tags: journalism, new media

Body of Evidencenew

When it comes to Marin County's high rates for breast cancer, researchers still have their hands full.

Pacific Sun | Kelly O'Mara | 09-24-2012 | Health

Tags: cancer, breast cancer

Here was this incredible device, a testimony to the liberating power of science, and what government can do when its power for good is unleashed. This is a contraption that wouldn’t exist without science and technology and the combined power of people’s collective will that in a democracy is called government.

Random Lengths News | Lionel Rolfe | 09-24-2012 | Commentary

Fifty Shades of Chicken Is a Sexy Chicken Cookbooknew

FINALLY! You and your chicken can get trussed and like it. A cookbook, due out November 13, parodies the last book you wanted to see on your mom's nightstand. With promises of rather tempting recipes for "Bacon Bound Wings," "Chicken with a Lardon" and "Mustard-Spanked Chicken," Fifty Shades of Chicken is taking cookbookdom to a whole new level.

Dallas Observer | Sara Blankenship | 09-21-2012 | Books

Tags: Parody, Fifty Shades of Grey

Fight for Rightsnew

Small northern Alberta First Nations band could force government to regulate oil industry.

VUE Weekly | Josh Marcellin | 09-21-2012 | Environment

Prosperity vs. Austerity Economicsnew

“Instead of the austerity agenda that we have now, focused on debt, this growth agenda is focused, really, on restoring broad-based economic growth and our democracy,” said Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker in a late-August teleconference.

Random Lengths News | Paul Rosenberg | 09-21-2012 | Commentary

Tags: SEIU, AFL-CIOX Daron AcemogluX Jacob HackerX Nate Loewentheil, Prosperity Economics: Building an Economy for All, the Center for Community Change, the Economic Policy Institute

Can You Have the Wild West and Your Blueberry Mojitos, Too?new

Erin and I are off itinerary. It’s after 1:30 p.m. when we look up at the clock in the WabiSabi thrift store in downtown Moab and realize we’ve missed our lunch reservation by an hour. After scoring a second-hand Arc’teryx jacket for $10, we arrive back at the Sorrel River Ranch, two hours behind schedule. Lunch is an $18 salad.

Boulder Weekly | Elizabeth Miller | 09-21-2012 | Recreation

Tags: West, Moab, outdoor

Waste Injection Wells: The Earth's Invisible Dumpnew

With more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic waste having been injected under the surface of the Earth, what happens if our belief that what goes down can’t come up is wrong?

Boulder Weekly | Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge | 09-21-2012 | Environment

Tags: toxic waste, waste