AltWeeklies Wire
The Triangle Unwirednew
Around the country, some cities say providing cheap wireless Internet access is as essential as water. Why not in the North Carolina Triangle?
INDY Week |
Fiona Morgan |
03-28-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: North Carolina, technology, Internet, BellSouth, broadband, Carrboro, digital divide, Durham, Raleigh, verizon, Wi-Fi, WiFi, wimax, wireless
Ex-Lawman Finally Free to Speaknew
An Illinois State Highway Patrol officer alleges he was prevented from investigating a brutal 1986 murder because the most likely suspect was a powerful campaign contributor to former governor George Ryan.
Illinois Times |
Dusty Rhodes |
03-25-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
School District Resists Military Recruiters' Methodsnew
A school district in New York State is standing up to the Pentagon by turning over information about students to military recruiters only if parents specifically request that it does so.
City Newspaper |
Krestia DeGeorge |
03-25-2005 |
War
New Battleground for Human Rights: the Bathroomnew
Public bathrooms are undoubtedly the most dangerous places for transgendered people. As a result, a fledgling movement to increase the number of gender-neutral bathrooms is gaining momentum.
City Newspaper |
Jennifer Loviglio |
03-25-2005 |
Sex
Soldier's Storynew
A Marine, killed in Iraq, leaves behind an extended family with differing opinions about the war.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
03-25-2005 |
War
Tags: war & peace
In God He Trustsnew
Progressive evangelical Jim Wallis says the religious left and middle are rising against the right. "[T]he privatizing of faith is the great evangelical heresy of our day. Again, God is personal and never private. Let’s talk about a public God who cares about the world."
Jackson Free Press |
John Sawyer |
03-24-2005 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Court Rules on an 'Act of Bio-Piracy'new
A U.S. bid to patent the miracle neem tree was cut down by a European court.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
03-24-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Porn Pushers or Youth Prophets?new
Sweatshop-free fans get their panties in a knot over American Apparel's gritty ad come-ons.
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
03-24-2005 |
The War on Women
The Education Censorsnew
Textbook companies are self-censoring their national editions to meet the whims of the religious conservatives that control the Texas Board of Education--effectively gutting the textbooks for the entire country.
How to Train a Bearnew
Grizzly bear deaths peaked last year in the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem at 31. Can the bruins survive human interaction?
Missoula Independent |
Mike Keefe-Feldman |
03-24-2005 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Despite Setback, Advocates Work to Overturn Rape Convictionnew
A growing legion of supporters, including ex-cops, believe 43-year-old Ronald Bower has wrongly spent the last 14 years in prison on rape charges -- even though a justice denied a motion to vacate his conviction March 23. A Long Island Press investigation considers the evidence that someone else was the "silver-gun rapist."
Long Island Press |
Amy Fisher with Robbie Woliver and Lauren Wolfe |
03-24-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Coke Hires Firm to Examine Bottlers in Colombia, Elsewherenew
In the next few months, Coke will release "summary" results of a worldwide audit of its bottlers, including bottlers in Colombia.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Steve Fennessy |
03-24-2005 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Coke
Lawsuite Puts Shopping Mall Titan on a Hot Seatnew
Business magnate Dick Jacobs' nephew has filed a lawsuit accusing his uncle of taking or misspending as much as $448 million from family trusts, much of it to prop up failed real-estate investments in downtown Cleveland.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
03-23-2005 |
Business & Labor
We're All Paranoidnew
Sure, the people with the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a little odd. But not everything they're saying is entirely crazy. Steven T. Jones infiltrates the Bay Area's 9/11 Truth Movement.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
03-23-2005 |
Crime & Justice
A Tale of Two 'Heroes'
Soldiers Ed Pulido and Camilo Mejia both served in Iraq but have two different perspectives on the war. It's a rift that matches the mindset of a nation divided more than ever over the Iraq conflict, now on the heels of its second anniversary.
Oklahoma Gazette |
Deborah Benjamin |
03-23-2005 |
War
Tags: Iraq
