AltWeeklies Wire
After Katrina, We Need Faith -- and Answers
An editor views hurricane damage in the parishes outside of New Orleans from a four-seat airplane.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
Scott Jordan |
09-06-2005 |
Disasters
The Disaster That Shouldn't Have Been
Warnings about problems at FEMA were sounded soon after Bush put a political appointee in charge of the agency.
NORTHCOM Responds Too Late to Disaster
The Pentagon's new Northern Command is supposed to be ready to spring into action to perform emergency relief work, but it wasn't until New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin lashed out that it jumped to attention.
North Bay Bohemian |
Peter Byrne |
09-06-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush
Guild Hires Official the Paper Exposednew
Shannon Duffy, nailed in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch expose about double dipping by fire-protection district officials, has been hired as the St. Louis Newspaper Guild's business agent.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-06-2005 |
Business & Labor
America's Nero: Bush's Impeachable Failurenew
President Bush has utterly failed to take charge and lead in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the worst national disaster to savage the nation, devastating the Gulf coast and threatening to turn New Orleans, a historic and soulful city, into a 21st century Pompeii. Nero at least fiddled while Rome burned. As Katrina roared, Bush vacationed.
Boston Phoenix |
Stephen Mindich and Peter Kadzis |
09-06-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Shelter in a Stormnew
While many residents of Jackson pick up debris and haul off trees, contract for home repairs and fret over heat without air conditioning, people crowded into the Mississippi Coliseum are struggling with the harsh truth that they have probably lost everything.
Jackson Free Press |
Casey Parks |
09-05-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Duck and Cover-Upnew
Sitting atop a major fault and in the shadow of an active volcano, Seattle should be paying very close attention to the catastrophe in New Orleans. The message for us is very simple: If the Big One comes, we're screwed.
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
09-05-2005 |
Disasters
Tags: disasters
Family of Man Lost in Bahamas Find New Cluesnew
A young man named Jairo Sanchez disappeared in the Bahamas in 1983, and his host in that country may have been the same American who hosted another man who vanished.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Bob Norman |
09-05-2005 |
Crime & Justice
When Parents and Kids Both Get Crankednew
The meth trend has swept eastward from California and is increasingly wreaking havoc on regular families and their children.
Houston Press |
Josh Harkinson |
09-05-2005 |
Science
More Accusations of Racism Made in Dallasnew
Using a "logistic regression analysis model" to prove its point, the Dallas Morning News accused the Dallas County District Attorney of running a racist department.
Dallas Observer |
Jim Schutze |
09-05-2005 |
Race & Class
G.I. Jerks Are as Real as Rambonew
A wave of wannabe warriors claiming service in Afghanistan and Iraq are looking to profit by deception, as one woman learned after moving in with a man she believed to be a career soldier.
Dallas Observer |
Glenna Whitley |
09-05-2005 |
War
Escape From New Orleansnew
Military reservist Evan Wolf gives a first-hand account of the roof being ripped off New Orleans' Superdome and the looting of Wal-Mart in the turmoil that followed Hurricane Katrina.
The Memphis Flyer |
Jackson Baker |
09-05-2005 |
Disasters
Sparking a Prairie Fire: Cindy Sheehan at City Hallnew
The founder of Camp Casey and her "Bring Them Home Now" Tour arrives to a big Austin welcome
Austin Chronicle |
Wells Dunbar |
09-03-2005 |
War
Advice and Dissent IV
As the death toll climbs in Iraq and now here at home, more people than ever wonder what went wrong with America since Sept. 11, 2001
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
09-02-2005 |
International
Tags: international
Convicted Rapist's Request for New Trial Turned Downnew
A rapist who figured in a Springfield police controversy says he felt pressured to plead guilty.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
09-02-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Illinois, Renatta Frazier
