AltWeeklies Wire
Early Puberty's Toxic Causes and Effectsnew
New report links chemicals to problematic early development.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Jessika Fruchter |
11-21-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Rev. Barry W. Lynn Stumps for the Constitution's Establishment Clausenew
The executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State has supported vigorous national debate on a host of Religious Right pet initiatives, and he continues with his book Piety & Politics.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
11-21-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
FairPoint Deal Specifics Get Weirdernew
A FairPoint exec says it's "misleading" to say that the company wouldn't give workers raises for seven years. But the company expects 4 percent of all workers -- including new hires -- to leave after the first year, leaving plenty of cash to pay for raises.
Portland Phoenix |
Jeff Inglis |
11-21-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Congressional Inaction: Killing Billsnew
The Farm Bill, a five-year federal spending bill that allots money for nutrition and hunger-prevention programs, industrial agriculture, and smaller farming operations, was blocked last Friday, and remained in limbo as Congress went into Thanksgiving recess.
Portland Phoenix |
Deirdre Fulton |
11-21-2007 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
UCSD Clamps Down on Free Speech & Political Activitiesnew
The university's new policy on "Speech, Advocacy and Distribution of Literature" is a lengthy set of rules and regulations governing use of campus space for rallies and gatherings that critics say will threaten students' and faculty's constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly.
San Diego CityBeat |
Emma Silvers |
11-21-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Mississippi Settles Foster Care Suitnew
Mississippi Attorney General is confident in a new foster care reform plan, which other states can imitate.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
11-20-2007 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Sex, Money and Strife on Campusnew
College students weather the effects of a price hike on birth control, all thanks to a Medicaid bill that Congress passed in 2005.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
11-20-2007 |
Sex
The Talking Woundednew
Vietnam survivors offer some friendly, if heavy, advice to today's soldiers.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
11-20-2007 |
War
Experts Can Predict Your Breast Cancer Risk -- If You Want to Knownew
Approximately 600,000 people in the U.S. are thought to have the gene mutation which often leads to breast cancer -- so far, only 30,000 of these have been tested.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Jill Thomas |
11-20-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
New Haven's Public Housing Vacancy Problemnew
Public housing apartments are breaking faster than New Haven can repair them.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
11-20-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Some Connecticut Vets Are Falling Between the Cracksnew
If you see an article in your hometown paper welcoming back a local soldier, would you mind calling the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs? The department might not know he or she is home.
New Haven Advocate |
Nick Keppler |
11-20-2007 |
War
The Charged Debate on Tasersnew
They were supposed to make both police and citizens safer, but critics in Pittsburgh and elsewhere say stun guns are dangerous -- and that police are too quick to use them.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Marty Levine |
11-20-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Tasers, crime & justice
Documenting Proof of Darwin's Natural Selectionnew
While Darwin explained how the "natural" world worked in theory, no one had been able to fully and methodically document and describe having actually seen it work that way in practice. Until Peter and Rosemary Grant came along, that is.
The Georgia Straight |
Terry Glavin |
11-19-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Amino Acids May Help Treat Drug Addictionnew
Jay Dodd was travelling through Thailand in 2002 when he took the wrong drugs and died. Five years later, Dodd's mother has nearly completed the journey that began with her son's untimely death.
The Georgia Straight |
Travis Lupick |
11-19-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Give Me Shelternew
For a citizen turned drug-addict turned killer, Lady Justice doles out penance through the same vein. Murder ... is just a shot away.
The Texas Observer |
Andrew Papke |
11-19-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
