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Million-Dollar Payday for Top REI Execnew
Retiring CEO Dennis Madsen earned $1.3 million in 2004 at Seattle's homegrown outdoor-equipment co-op.
Seattle Weekly |
Chuck Taylor |
03-23-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Discrimination Settlement Yields Little to Complainantnew
Darnay Cheeks was awarded $30,000 after Ford Motor Company agreed to settle regarding his complaint that it discriminated against blacks on a promotion test.
Cleveland Scene |
Kevin Hoffman |
03-22-2005 |
Race & Class
Football Player Responds to Rape Allegationsnew
The prosecutor declined to file criminal charges after a woman accused Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Ross Verba of rape. Now a second woman has made startingly similar allegations.
Cleveland Scene |
James Renner |
03-22-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Death Warmed Over Againnew
Whatever kudos go to writer/director Dan Harris for the length of his reach in this family-crisis drama tend to be overshadowed by inexperience and enslavement to genre.
Sidewalk Solicitors Pitch for Charitiesnew
Save the Children reports that street-level fundraising has yielded more than 70 percent of its new donor base, but watchdogs warn that such methods can backfire.
The Pitch |
Mike Seely |
03-22-2005 |
Business & Labor
Demand for Missouri Caviar Spawns Cutthroat Competitionnew
A global shortage of caviar, owing to the overfishing of the Caspian Sea's beluga sturgeon, is making the Mississippi and Missouri rivers once again a nexus for the caviar trade.
The Pitch |
Kristen Hinman |
03-22-2005 |
Food+Drink
Out Like a Lambnew
Set, for the most part, in the underground Berlin bunker where Adolf Hitler spent his last days, Downfall is a grim and sometimes guilt-ridden examination of the Third Reich in collapse. But it's also weirdly sympathetic.
City Taxpayers Asked to Come to Hospital's Aidnew
Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Kay Barnes and other officials are pushing for a property-tax increase to help fund emergency health care for the uninsured.
Attack on Evolution Is Well-Coordinatednew
Bloggers reveal that campaign contributions have flowed from anti-evolution, "intelligent design" proponents to conservative Kansas City school board members.
Poisoning Suspect Harassed Other Neighborsnew
Donna Ozuna-Trout cried racism after she was accused of attempting to murder the mayor of Edwardsville, Kan., by poisoned coffeecake. Her many neighbors beg to differ.
The Pitch |
Allie Johnson |
03-22-2005 |
Crime & Justice
The Mystery of the Sunken Submarinenew
The tourist submarine Capt. Ernesto Garfias Ramirez was towing along the coast of Baja California sank in a storm, he says. The owner claims there was no storm.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
03-22-2005 |
Business & Labor
Urban Removal Project Displaces Blacksnew
Descendants of the black people who lived in the doomed settlement of Styx are having their land taken away -- this time by the West Palm Beach Housing Authority.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
03-22-2005 |
Race & Class
Hair Metal Hits the Roadnew
When fans see a band that once defined youthful abandon begin to go gray, it underscores their own mortality. But if you gotta go out, it might as well be with a smile, and Mötley Crüe's first tour in five years should provide plenty of dopey grins.
Phoenix New Times |
Jason Bracelin |
03-22-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Two Muchnew
Canadian twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin have enough delicious guitar hooks and soul-baring, anthemic choruses in their latest album to lead a full-on power pop revival.
Phoenix New Times |
Michele Laudig |
03-22-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Arizona Lawmaker Goes After Campus Pressnew
Russell Pearce, a member of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church, put language in this year's state budget bill to eliminate funding for campus publications in Arizona because they have run stories and photographs he considers offensive.
Phoenix New Times |
John Dougherty |
03-22-2005 |
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