AltWeeklies Wire
The Housing Authoritynew
Kansas City's public housing officials want you to think everything's great -- Miss Lizzie Brown knows otherwise.
The Pitch |
Carolyn Szczepanski |
07-03-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Giddyup With Pony Play Fetishistsnew
It's a boundary-stretching variation on conventional sexual fetishes, with its own bizarre paraphernalia and terminology, substituting bridles and riding crops for the usual manacles and whips -- and it just might be going on in a hotel conference room or backyard near you.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Ashley Harrell |
07-03-2007 |
Sex
Protesters Don't Rattle Vietnam's Presidentnew
An affable Nguyen Minh Triet seeks to heal "old wounds."
OC Weekly |
R. Scott Moxley |
07-03-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Biomass, Fuel of the Futurenew
University of Wisconsin-Madison will be one of three institutions nationally to receive federal grants worth $25 million a year for five years to discover more efficient ways of producing biofuels.
Isthmus |
Phil Hands |
07-02-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Pat Buchanan's Silence Was Goldennew
It isn't often that the former presidential candidate gives someone else the chance to speak, but he clammed up when forced to consider truths of what many Americans share with undocumented immigrants.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
07-02-2007 |
Immigration
Rose Parade Float Sparks Human Rights Questionsnew
Persecuted for their beliefs by the Chinese government, Falun Gong practitioners decry that nation's inclusion in the New Year's parade.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
07-02-2007 |
International
Tags: international
American Paranoia Creeps North with Canada's No-fly Listnew
The no-fly list introduced this month by the Canadian government is a result of "American pressure" and "is not good" for Canadian security services, says a government intelligence official.
Montreal Mirror |
Samer Elatrash |
07-02-2007 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Death by Electrocutionernew
In a worst-case scenario for stun guns, a Phoenix cop kills a suspect with an 84-second tasing.
Phoenix New Times |
Paul Rubin |
07-02-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Seattle Hotel Could be Pathway to Citizenship for Investorsnew
Rich foreigners would gain green cards by investing in an industry reliant on undocumented workers.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-02-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Police Raids Bust Up Drug Labs ... and Familiesnew
On drug raids, Colorado law-enforcement agencies found not just dangerous chemicals, but children who'd been living in the labs.
Tags: Drugs
Hide and Seeknew
Self-imposed corporate transparency is still the best way to go in "private equity" deals.
Pasadena Weekly |
Peter Scheer |
07-02-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
The Defenestrator: Against Typenew
The Philadelphia anarchist newspaper turns 10.
Philadelphia Weekly |
G.W. Miller III |
07-02-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Reading Too Much Into Study Linking Birth Order & IQnew
The original story about the study in the New York Times never once used the word "smart" in any of its forms -- particularly the comparative phrase "smarter than" -- so why did other papers' stories on the study use that very language?
Chicago Reader |
Michael Miner |
07-02-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
If We Want More Organic Meat ...new
We're going to need more places to slaughter organic livestock.
Chicago Reader |
Nicholas Day |
07-02-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Toxic Indianapolisnew
Our city's air pollution problems are disproportionately harming our economy, our health and our natural environment -- they are also a direct result of competing political agendas and interests between state and city governments, as well as our own bad habits.
NUVO |
Laura McPhee |
06-29-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
