AltWeeklies Wire
Reality Check: Pennsylvania's Rape Laws Perpetuate the Mythsnew
It’s easier to get away with sexual assault in Pennsylvania than anywhere else in U.S.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Tara Murtha |
06-22-2011 |
Policy Issues
Goodbye, Metromix!new
Gannett pulls the plug on their Indianapolis faux alt-newsweekly, and NUVO staffers breathe a deep, but temporary, sigh of relief.
Cruel Days Return for Georgia's AIDS Sufferersnew
State and Congress haven’t approved funding for life-saving drugs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cliff Bostock |
06-22-2011 |
Science
Google Doodle Just Isn't Gay Enoughnew
Don't do it yet, but when you Google the words "gay" or "lesbian" you will see the small rainbow tucked around the end of the search bar. But curiously when you type in any variation of those words, such as gay civil rights, lesbian avengers, or even the name of a gay icon like Harvey Milk, the power rainbow mysteriously disappears.
AFL-CIO, Local Labor Leader Blast Boeing Hearingnew
Inside those chambers, Congressional Democrats and Republicans delivered a series of dramatic, Royal Shakespeare Company-caliber soliloquies. Some protested the NLRB suit against Boeing while others sneered at the jet manufacturer's decision to open its new 787 Dreamliner plant in anti-union South Carolina instead of pro-union Washington state.
Charleston City Paper |
Chris Haire |
06-21-2011 |
Business & Labor
Water: Worst-Case Scenarios, What-Ifs, Heroes and Wastersnew
Humankind’s most recently scheduled date with the apocalypse came and went without much fanfare. But in New Mexico this year, with fire scorching the ground, smoke filling the air and drought settling in, it doesn’t exactly feel like we’ve gotten off scot-free.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Zane Fischer |
06-21-2011 |
Environment
Boeing Hearing Amounts to Little More Than Political Theaternew
On June 17, Lafe Solomon, chief acting legal counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, was summoned to North Charleston under the threat of a subpoena. The reason: To sit before a U.S. House panel and be attacked by mob of angry Republicans, including three Congressmen from South Carolina and the state's high-profile governor and possible 2012 GOP VP candidate, Nikki Haley.
Charleston City Paper |
Corey Hutchins |
06-21-2011 |
Business & Labor
What's in Your Bookbag?new
Louisiana public schools will be able to choose their own textbooks under a proposed bill.
Monkeying with the Constitutionnew
Jeremy Alford on how the "small-government" pols in Baton Rouge want to add (and add and add) to the Louisiana state Constitution.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
06-20-2011 |
Policy Issues
No Such Thing as Free Roadsnew
There are countless ways to price roads, and tolls are far from the most useful.
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
06-20-2011 |
Transportation
Tags: Highway Funding, Toll Roads
Boeing's Decision to Move Has Turned Into a Legal Nightmarenew
Last week, South Carolina's top politicians gathered together to celebrate the official opening of Boeing's Dreamliner plant in North Charleston. But this week, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will conduct hearings in the city on a lawsuit filed by the National Labor Relations Board against the airline manufacturer. At issue is whether Boeing illegally retaliated against its unionized workforce in Washington state by building a second Dreamliner plant in North Charleston, a move that will create an estimated 3,800 new jobs in South Carolina.
Charleston City Paper |
Corey Hutchins |
06-17-2011 |
Business & Labor
After a Decade in Prison, Man Proves His Innocence -- Only to See Inaction From Courtsnew
Elroy Phillips remains in a Kentucky prison on charges he can prove he didn't commit.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Barton |
06-16-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Likes and Dislikesnew
Eateries sound off on their forays into collective buying.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Matthew Schniper |
06-16-2011 |
Business & Labor
Carbon Nation: CO2 Injection Hits the Northwestnew
Carbon capture and storage. It’s magic! With a little hocus pocus gas becomes liquid. But it might be a little more like a curse than a spell, or at least it has been for a farm in Canada where ponds began to fizz and ponds began to bubble.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
06-16-2011 |
Environment
Bare Minimumnew
Do sheltered workshops teach the disabled skills for the workplace or exploit them for cheap labor?
Orlando Weekly |
Jeff Gore |
06-16-2011 |
Business & Labor
