AltWeeklies Wire
Leading With Her Heartnew
Manlin Chee, an outspoken immigration lawyer, is in federal prison after she was targeted by an FBI sting operation. Her case raises questions about the fate of those who speak up for immigrants.
INDY Week |
Barbara Solow |
05-02-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Boyfriend Is Charged After Helping Girlfriend Miscarrynew
When a 16-year-old girl confirmed that her boyfriend had stood on her stomach at her request so she could abort her twins, she implicated him in two counts of capital murder.
Houston Press |
Craig Masilow |
05-02-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Take Back the Night, Part IInew
One of feminist Andrea Dworkin's legacies is a response she never intended: the development of lesbian porn like the fetish magazine On Our Backs.
East Bay Express |
Chris Thompson |
05-02-2005 |
The War on Women
Dallas Morning News Gets Scooped on Circulation Fraud Storynew
The Dallas daily didn't report that its owner, Belo Corp., had been served a grand jury subpoena as part of a criminal investigation until the Fort Worth Star-Telegram broke the story.
Dallas Observer |
Jim Schutze |
05-02-2005 |
Media
The Dorm From Hellnew
Black mold, fire ant invasions, lack of repairs: They all make living conditions at the University of Texas at Dallas's Waterview Park miserable. But far worse is the crime.
Dallas Observer |
a Southern Methodist University Investigative Reporting Class |
05-02-2005 |
Education
Star in a Jar?new
Miracle or pipe-dream? A working nuclear-fusion reactor uses bubbles to produce power at a fraction of today's energy costs and creates almost no pollution.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
04-29-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Pope and Circumstancenew
Those giving archconservative Benedict XVI the benefit of the doubt are straining to see a more-liberal Church dating back to Vatican II, one that never really existed.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
04-29-2005 |
Religion
Tags: religion
This Fish Is a No-Brainernew
If we were serious about living consciously, we'd stop eating fish.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
04-29-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Major Tom to Ground Controlnew
Activist Tom Hayden gives Canada's New Democratic Party a strategy to win refuge for U.S. soldiers fleeing service in Iraq.
NOW Magazine |
Matt Mernagh |
04-29-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
Stripper Gets Things Off Her Chest, Implicates Docnew
A Diamond Cabaret stripper with a new set of breasts found herself addicted to Percocet, a painkiller her doctor would no longer prescribe. That's when a fellow dancer told her about a local doctor's prescriptions-for-porno deal.
Westword |
Luke Turf |
04-28-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Joys of Summer
Maybe the hot-month movies that critics love to hate aren't so evil after all.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
04-27-2005 |
Media
Tags: media
Smucker's Denied Crustless-Sandwich Supremacynew
Regan Quaal remembers well the day he received a letter from the J.M. Smucker Company demanding that he stop peddling his peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches -- the ones with the crusts cut off. Smucker's, the letter read, already owned the U.S. patent for crustless sandwiches.
Cleveland Scene |
Rebecca Meiser |
04-26-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Human Hands at Work for Wolf Babiesnew
It's electrojaculating season, which means that help is on the way for the endangered Mexican gray wolf.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
04-26-2005 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Exonerated Man Gets a Long-Awaited Second Chancenew
Ray Krone's got it all. An extreme makeover. Settlement money. Problem is, he can't seem to forgive those who screwed up and put him on Arizona's death row.
Phoenix New Times |
Robert Nelson |
04-26-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
SWM Seeking Alien Hottienew
Craigslist prepares to transmit its postings into outer space, but what would extraterrestrials do with an old chaise longue?
East Bay Express |
Kara Platoni |
04-25-2005 |
Business & Labor
