AltWeeklies Wire
Kick Out the Demons: Exorcism Detroit-Stylenew
The people who attend this church swear they see miracles. Who's to argue?
Metro Times |
Detroitblogger John |
05-02-2012 |
Religion
Methbustersnew
On the street with the most aggressive drug hunters in Ohio.
Cleveland Scene |
Kyle Swenson |
05-02-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Smoked Outnew
The federal government makes good on its threat to shut down medical-marijuana dispensaries - and the worst may be yet to come.
North Bay Bohemian |
Leilani Clark |
05-02-2012 |
Drugs
As Border Apprehensions Fall, a Serious 'Minor' Problem Emergesnew
Soon after the number of undocumented immigrants nabbed at the border plummeted in 2011 — 340,000 caught compared to highs upwards of 1 million annually — we got news from the Pew Hispanic Center that migration from Mexico to the U.S. has essentially stopped, and maybe even reversed.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
05-02-2012 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration, Border Apprehensions
A Harsh Lesson at Columbia
As Obama brings his rock-the-youth-vote campaign to the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, he wants to be photographed in a sea of adoring youthful faces. And yet, through incompetence or cynical calculus, he's throwing some of the most inspiring, hard-working students in America under the bus.
Tags: Barack Obama, Election 2012
South Carolinians Unite Against 'War on Women'new
For months, a national narrative that there is a war on women has been filling TV broadcasts and leading newspaper headlines. Democrats have blamed Republicans for trying to legislate away women’s reproductive rights; Republicans have accused Democrats of inflating an inflammatory wedge issue to score political points. For some, the Palmetto State is ground zero.
Columbia Free Times |
Corey Hutchins |
05-01-2012 |
The War on Women
Charleston's Post & Courier to Put Up Paywallnew
The Post and Courier will begin charging for web content on Tues. May 1. The subscription price for paper will increase as well
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
05-01-2012 |
Media
Tags: Paywalls, Post & Courier Paywall
Everything, Illuminatednew
How one alt weekly journalist managed to shed light on the darkest human experience.
Folio Weekly |
Anne Schindler |
04-27-2012 |
Media
Tags: The Stranger, Eli Sanders
Occupy the Trees!new
The trees are Occupied! Occupy Eugene has teamed up with the Cascadia Forest Defenders for an arboreal Occupation in the Northwest. The groups are Occupying the trees in the city and on federal forestland.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-27-2012 |
#OCCUPY
Tags: #OCCUPY
First Amendment — 1, Colorado University — 0new
For more than 20 years, the annual 4/20 event on the Colorado University campus came and went pretty much without incident. There is really no reason to think that this year would have been any different had those who run the University not decided to make it different, but they did, and it was.
Boulder Weekly |
Joel Dyer |
04-27-2012 |
Civil Liberties
Q&A with Eric Lane, president of the San Antonio Chapter for Americans United for Separation of Church and Statenew
When Americans United was founded in 1947, some in power were pushing to fund certain private religious institutions with public tax dollars.
San Antonio Current |
Bárbara Renaud González |
04-26-2012 |
Policy Issues
Then and Now: L.A. Riots, 20 Years Laternew
For more than two weeks in the spring of 1992, L.A. Weekly photographer Ted Soqui put his life at risk as he drove from one ravaged neighborhood to another to document the fallout of the Los Angeles riots.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald and Ted Soqui |
04-26-2012 |
Features
How Two Photojournalists Are Taking On Philly's Gun Crisisnew
A new-media project, GunCrisis.org, uses old-school journalism tactics to study Philly's homicides.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
04-26-2012 |
Crime & Justice
In public school, blacks, Hispanics suspended at higher rates than whitesnew
Although the number of suspensions has declined in many Triangle school districts in the last 10 years, the racial disparities among suspension rates remain the same.
INDY Week |
Tiara Hodges |
04-26-2012 |
Race & Class
Recycling's Dirty Little Secretnew
The people who sort our recyclables have dangerous -- and sometimes, disgusting -- jobs. And they're about to get worse.
East Bay Express |
Jean Tepperman |
04-26-2012 |
Business & Labor
