AltWeeklies Wire
Biodiesel Backfirenew
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom promised a big shift to green fuels -- but it isn't happening.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Nicole Gluckstern |
04-18-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
It's a Solution to Environmental & Transportation Problemsnew
So why isn't Gov. Schwarzenegger supporting high-speed rail in California?
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones |
04-18-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Inside a City's Black Marketnew
What you'll pay for drugs, sex, weapons, IDs and more in Charlottesville, Va.
C-Ville Weekly |
Cathy Harding |
04-18-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Highlights from Local TV Newsnew
A bank robber dons a Ronald Reagan mask; kids drive a tractor to school.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Frances Sansig Monahan |
04-17-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Transit Agency Denies Ads Based on Contentnew
And now the Port Authority of Allegheny County faces a lawsuit by the League of Young Voters Education Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union -- an attempt by the agency to have the case was thrown out last month.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Violet Law |
04-17-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Vet's War Continued at Homenew
Walter Padilla, who recently killed himself after returning from Iraq, struggled with PTSD.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Michael de Yoanna |
04-17-2007 |
War
Is a New Prisoner Labor Program a Solution to Farmers' Staffing Woes?new
Or is the convicts-for-farm-workers plan, hatched two months ago by Rep. Dorothy Butcher, a shortsighted mistake?
Colorado Springs Independent |
Naomi Zeveloff |
04-17-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Your Tax Dollars At Warnew
What else could $609 million buy Greater New Haven?
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
04-17-2007 |
War
Tags: war in iraq, Taxes
Raw Recruitingnew
The Maryland Army National Guard cleaned house recently, but inside sources say it missed plenty of dirt.
Baltimore City Paper |
Randy Leonard |
04-17-2007 |
War
Tags: war & peace
The Algiers Connectionnew
Sofaine Laimeche's long friendship with a 9/11 suspect has put his future in America in doubt.
Phoenix New Times |
Ray Stern |
04-17-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: War on terror, 9/11
A Subdivision Turns on a Neighbor Who Pointed Out its Contaminationnew
Paul Anderson became a pariah when he raised questions about Woodwind Lakes' land and the contamination underneath.
Houston Press |
Todd Spivak |
04-17-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Seminole Tribe's Hard Rock Lifenew
The tribe -- certainly among the most prosperous of the nation's 561 recognized Indian tribes -- has built an economic juggernaut by exploiting federal policies that gave it advantages over any American corporation.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Thomas Francis |
04-17-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Guatemalans Whisked Back to a Land They Remember in Nightmaresnew
So many Guatemalans are being deported -- more than 12,000 in 2005, with the number rising last year -- that activists have prepared a class-action suit to stop the removals.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Amy Guthrie |
04-17-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
How Living With a Compulsive Hoarder Destroyed My Familynew
"Hoarding" is defined as the acquisition of and inability to discard worthless items even though they appear (to others) to have no value, and is most commonly found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
LEO Weekly |
Anonymous |
04-16-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Richard Scrushy Dodges Jail for Probation Violationnew
The next time the former HealthSouth CEO leaves Alabama to go on vacation, he will have to wear a government-issued GPS tracking device on the trip.
Birmingham Weekly |
Kyle Whitmire |
04-16-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
