AltWeeklies Wire
Pot-Growing Operations Trash Los Padres National Forestnew
Why isn't anyone cleaning it up?
Monterey County Weekly |
Kera Abraham |
09-13-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
Critical Mass Chaos May Be a Preview of the RNCnew
The extra police presence at last month's Twin Cities ride may have been due to the participation of the RNC Welcoming Committee -- a group organizing a mass protest at the 2008 Republican Convention in St. Paul.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Matt Snyders |
09-13-2007 |
Civil Liberties
The View from Afghanistannew
Afghans have spent most of their history dealing with foreign powers that exert influence by force, political meddling or material support to particular parties, so they find creative ways of explaining phenomena they don't understand.
INDY Week |
Jeffrey E. Stern |
09-13-2007 |
International
Too Little, Too Late on Predatory Lendingnew
Predatory lending action is helping some, but the worst may still be ahead.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
09-13-2007 |
Economy
Corporate Incentives: Down the Slippery Slopenew
North Carolina's delusional economic development policy headed for the rubber room recently, as the legislature and Gov. Mike Easley clashed, then compromised, over a bill to give Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. up to $40 million to keep its Fayetteville plant open and stay in the state.
Tags: Economic Issues
A STAC of Transit Ideas in North Carolina's Trianglenew
A commuter rail line, plus electrified streetcar lines, plus rail line spurs would equal almost 240 miles of commuter rail (plus 56 miles of streetcars) at a rough cost of $6.1 billion to $8.2 billion.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
09-13-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
The Secret Lives of Teachersnew
Two teachers take on the reality of life in the classroom.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Rob Wilder and Seth Biderman |
09-13-2007 |
Education
Tags: Education
Oakland: A Haven for Arsonists?new
In five years, the city has logged 1,538 malicious property torchings but made just 51 arrests in those cases.
East Bay Express |
Jeremy Singer-Vine |
09-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Law Enforcement Abuses Give a Texas County a Black Eyenew
Johnson County suffers, on average, only one or two murders and maybe 50 robberies a year -- and yet, in just two months, inmates reported to Fort Worth Weekly at least half a dozen instances of abuse and serious neglect by jailers, in some cases life-threatening, and out-of-line conduct by various patrol officers.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Peter Gorman |
09-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Silicon Valley Still Waiting for BART Extensionnew
All those years, all that money, but the fabled transit extension is still just a gleam in politicians' eyes.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Erin Sherbert |
09-13-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Is Jim Hultman's Former Home Stolen Property?new
An unscrupulous mortgage-collection firm sold his Berkeley home out from under him, leaving behind a feud and an eyesore.
East Bay Express |
Jeremy Singer-Vine |
09-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
No Sympathy for Homeowners with Exploding ARMsnew
Why should I feel sorry for someone who didn't think things through and jumped too early at the first loan they could get?
New York Press |
John DeSio |
09-13-2007 |
Economy
Confronting a Pregnant Woman's Worst Nightmarenew
"There is great risk here that the baby will be born with some deformity or with mental deficiency," the doctor said, his voice measured, the gaze that had failed to meet us when we first sat down, now fixed as we stared back in silence.
New York Press |
Juli Steadman Charkes |
09-13-2007 |
Sex
The Right Wing Rides Again in Massachusettsnew
The state is in the process of overturning a set of Mitt Romney-era rules inhibiting some types stem cell research, and the Massachusetts Family Institute and its allies aren't too happy about it.
Dig Boston |
Keith Howard |
09-12-2007 |
Science
Smithfield Foods Workers Rally for Justicenew
Workers from the company's North Carolina plant ally with national labor activists, clergy, and civil rights representatives to rally against shareholders.
Port Folio Weekly |
Hannah Serrano |
09-12-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
