AltWeeklies Wire
How To Die In Californianew
Brittany Maynard's high-profile death may help usher in a right-to-die option for terminally ill patients in the Golden State.
Sacramento News & Review |
Melinda Welsh |
01-22-2015 |
Health
Tags: right to die
The Fight to Correct Batman's Legacynew
Batman's true creator never got credit, and now his granddaughter fights to correct history.
Miami New Times |
Kyle Swenson |
01-21-2015 |
Features
Tags: batman
How Listening to Music and Fighting with Susan Sontag Helped Me Cope with Chemonew
A year with stage IV cancer.
The Stranger |
Trisha Ready |
01-21-2015 |
Features
Two Murders, Two Murderers, and Our Peculiar Justice Systemnew
Death row is full of people who have committed heinous crimes, but some people who have committed heinous crimes are not scheduled for execution.
Nashville Scene |
Steven Hale |
01-20-2015 |
Crime & Justice
Law & Order: C.L.E.new
What happens when the police need prosecuting?
Cleveland Scene |
Sam Allard |
01-20-2015 |
Crime & Justice
Running the Marriage-Equality Gauntletnew
In a small, gothic New Orleans courtroom that could have been a set from the TV series "Game of Thrones," judges and attorneys discussed the legality of marriage equality in the Deep South.
Jackson Free Press |
Anna Wolfe |
01-20-2015 |
LGBT
Rural Schools See a Financial Cliffnew
New York's public schools are among the most racially and economically segregated in the country.
City Newspaper |
Tim Louis Macaluso |
01-20-2015 |
Education
The Pen Respondsnew
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack, we asked local cartoonists if they'd like to respond by taking their pen to paper.
North Coast Journal |
Thadeus Greenson |
01-20-2015 |
Civil Liberties
To Be or Not to Be Charlienew
Pushing the borderlines of free expression.
Eugene Weekly |
Laeitita Béraud and Andy Singer |
01-20-2015 |
Civil Liberties
Have Legislators Thwarted Chance to Bring Funds to Cash-Strapped Mississippi Schools?new
Republican legislators introduced an alternative amendment to Amendment 42 that was passed by the Mississippi House of Representatives in a 64-57 vote on Tuesday. It deleted any reference to making the state responsible for providing funding to schools.
Jackson Free Press |
Jackie Mader |
01-18-2015 |
Education
Enabling Employers to Help Disabled Peoplenew
A Mississippi advocacy group wants some state agencies to give closer consideration to people with disabilities when it comes to hiring decisions.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
01-18-2015 |
Business & Labor
The Politics of Park Benchesnew
The Beltline design process offers a chance to rethink Atlanta's approach to homelessness.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Robert Rosenberger |
01-17-2015 |
Policy Issues
The Never-Ending Scrutinynew
Two years after Arizona banned Mexican-American studies, new curriculum is under attack.
Tucson Weekly |
María Inés Taracena |
01-15-2015 |
Education
Do You See This Man?new
With the recent focus on homelessness in Syracuse, some media organizations asked people what they thought of panhandlers. New Times reporter Michelle Malia van Dalen asked homeless people about their lives in Syracuse.
Syracuse New Times |
Michelle van Dalen |
01-12-2015 |
Homelessness
Why Protest?new
Reporter Casey Fabris talks drone protesters who come to Hancock Field month after month to object to a technology they say makes the ugliness of war too tolerable.
Syracuse New Times |
Casey Fabris |
01-12-2015 |
War
