AltWeeklies Wire
The Insurance Company Didn't Give a Damn, and the Jury Gave $37 Millionnew
Time Insurance is about to discover just how badly it has miscalculated: about the routine business of taking away people's health insurance, about a Boulder jury, about its own by-the-numbers defense — and, most of all, about Jennifer Latham.
The Stripper Mobile Rolled Into Miami Super Bowl Weekend, and No One Noticednew
They are dancers, not strippers, the girls tell you. Girls who are done adjusting bra straps inside the Super 8 motel and are now trotting in their high, heavy heels to a ridiculous contraption on wheels, the Stripper Mobile.
Miami New Times |
Natalie O'Neill |
02-22-2010 |
Sex
Texas Board of Education's Cultural Warriors in Troublenew
Could it really be that the young Earthers, the intelligent designers and assorted Christian right-wing whackjobs who have made the Texas State Board of Education such a reliable source of amusement could be facing... extinction?
Dallas Observer |
Patrick Williams |
02-22-2010 |
Education
Say It's So, Tiger Woods!
Let's assume that all the accusations of serial philandering are true. That no waitress was safe from Tiger Woods' charms. What right do we, the public, have to be upset? Woods never presented himself as a pillar of moral virtue. He marketed himself as a great golfer. His job was to knock balls into holes—which he did. He didn't cheat at golf.
Rush Radio: Truth is False and Logic Lostnew
If you're a card-carrying liberal, you may rightly be asking yourself: Isn't there enough conservative radio in the area already? Why isn't there equal counterprogramming of progressive talk across the radio band? And does it even matter that there isn't?
An Interview with Larry Flynt About Free Speechnew
Larry Flynt spoke as part of a two-day symposium on the First Amendment sponsored by the First Amendment Law Review of the UNC School of Law. The Indy caught up with Flynt by telephone last week.
As a Statewide Demonstration Looms, Investments by the UC Regents are Scrutinizednew
The Regents of the University of California recently worried that students and workers might engage in acts of civil disobedience because the governing board had raised tuition by 30 percent while continuing to spend hundreds of millions on such projects as a sports stadium retrofit.
Sacramento News & Review |
Peter Byrne |
02-19-2010 |
Education
Employers Skim $26.2 Million Per Week from Lower-Income Workers Paychecksnew
Ruth Milkman should have moved this statistic from the 53rd page of her study to the front, where it might have been read by local media: Every week, employers in Los Angeles County pilfer $26.2 million from the paychecks of the poorest 17 percent of workers.
L.A. Weekly |
Max Taves |
02-19-2010 |
Business & Labor
Will California Continue to Lead the Fight Against Global Warming?new
Despite problems, Arnold Schwarzenegger might still be remembered as the “green governor” who ushered in California’s landmark, sweeping global-warming law, Assembly Bill 32, also known as California’s Global Warming Solutions Act. The governor who built the green economy. But it's crunch time.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
02-18-2010 |
Environment
Spotty Detective Work and Careless Prosecution May Have Put the Wrong Men Behind Barsnew
Last February, a jury found Tyler Gassman and two friends guilty of robbing drug dealers in April 2008 — despite the men’s insistent pleas that they were innocent. Their conviction was the final stroke in a long and, at times, bizarre case.
The Inlander |
Jacob H. Fries |
02-18-2010 |
Crime & Justice
After Layoffs, City Bus Drivers are Being Taxed on Money They Never Receivednew
"It's not right, what's being done. It's bad enough to shut down the careers of so many people that they've put decades into, but then not to pay the money that they have coming — that's really a slap."
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-18-2010 |
Economy
Colorado Springs Bar Owner Says He's Found a Smoking Ban Loopholenew
After three years fighting the law the owner of Murray Street Darts says he's figured out how he and his customers can continue lighting up legally: He's opened a tobacco shop.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Anthony Lane |
02-18-2010 |
Policy Issues
If Community Centers Close, the Fallout Could Be Immeasurablenew
It seems the community centers need a miracle. But the people who love them aren't waiting for one. In the last month, moms, dads, grandparents and high schoolers have come together with great joy, enthusiasm and imagination and put up one hell of a fight.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-18-2010 |
Economy
Adopted Children are Left Behind in Washington, D.C.new
Jenn Thomas and Kevin Fox, both teachers, met in Cardozo Senior High School in 2001. They married in 2003. On Sept. 4, 2006, they agreed to adopt a baby boy and became financially responsible for his life from then on. Max was born at George Washington Hospital the next day.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
02-18-2010 |
Children & Families
Tribes, Tracks and Casinos Push to Widen Texas Gamblingnew
The economic crunch could mean 2011 will be the year that gambling promoters finally open up Texas (the biggest untapped market in the U.S.) to casinos and racetrack slots. If that happens, the economic effects will be felt in Oklahoma, Louisiana... and maybe even Nevada.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
02-17-2010 |
Policy Issues
