AltWeeklies Wire
How Green Is Your Pot?new
A new collective is trying to sell sustainable, organically grown marijuana, but patients are hooked on indoor weed that wastes energy and pollutes the planet.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
07-13-2011 |
Drugs
How Will Georgia's New Immigration Law Impact Restaurants?new
"Everyone's scared. We don't want to leave our families here. Everyone's talking about it. We don't know what the law means, we just feel scared. Everyone in the kitchens here, they're all Mexican. What's going to happen if we all have to leave? I don't know."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Besha Rodell |
07-12-2011 |
Immigration
The Bulimic Brainnew
Jacky Duong has been fighting the urge to throw up since she was fourteen, and recent research suggests the battle is largely with her brain.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Gross |
07-12-2011 |
Science
Tags: Eating Disorders, Bulimia
Buffalo Soldiersnew
Activists and government agents clash over America's last wild, genetically pure bison.
Planet Jackson Hole |
Benjamin R. Bombard |
07-08-2011 |
Animal Issues
TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His Pantsnew
The Broward Sheriff's Office says 30-year-old Nelson Santiago stole around $50,000 worth of electronics over the past six months from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport's Terminal 1.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Matthew Hendley |
07-08-2011 |
Transportation
Tags: Nelson Santiago, TSA Theft
Death of a Yoginew
The battle for a corporate empire, hundreds of millions of dollars and the meaning of a faith.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
07-08-2011 |
Features
Can a Grieving Poet's Movement for Peace Save Mexico?new
On a broiling mid-June afternoon in Juarez, Javier Sicilia stepped on to a makeshift stage in a downtown park to address at least 2,000 of his fellow grieving Mexicans. The crowd applauded wildly as the soft-spoken, 54-year old poet began to speak in measured tones about creating a national movement to “save our Democracy.”
The Texas Observer |
Melissa del Bosque |
07-08-2011 |
Drugs
Woman on a Missionnew
Standing an easy 6 feet tall in her fashionable beige wedge sandals, Center for Violence Prevention executive director Sandy Middleton is a cool mix of southern elegance and graciousness and resolute determination.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
07-08-2011 |
The War on Women
Hitting the restart buttonnew
Downtown Library re-opening re-energizes Palo Alto's branch system
Palo Alto Weekly |
Jocelyn Dong |
07-08-2011 |
Education
The Surreal Councilnew
In the fight over police, some Oakland politicians do an about-face.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
07-07-2011 |
Policy Issues
How I Walked 500 Miles and Got My Soul Cleansednew
Right now, I could murder that little old lady in the confessional.
Charleston City Paper |
Jon Santiago |
07-07-2011 |
Religion
Tags: Spain, Pilgrimage
Our HAUSnew
Houston gets its first co-op — decades after other cities took the plunge.
Houston Press |
Mandy Oaklander |
07-07-2011 |
Housing & Development
Violent Messagesnew
A professor at the University of Arizona is threatened after people opposed to TUSD's ethnic studies name him on a video.
Tucson Weekly |
Mari Herreras |
07-07-2011 |
Race & Class
Leafly.com Classes Up The Jointnew
A new medical cannabis web site is lightning fast and wicked smart.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
07-07-2011 |
Drugs
Tags: Leafly.com, WeedMaps.com
My Illegal-Immigration Storynew
'The great lion has awakened, and you have a choice to make'
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Rolando Zenteno |
07-07-2011 |
Immigration
