AltWeeklies Wire
Dude, Who Owns My Car?: Car Thieves Are Mysterious Beastsnew
While many stolen cars end up in chop shops, there is another grouping that become thieves personal cars -- sometimes they take better care of the cars than the owners they stolen them from.
SF Weekly |
Rigoberto Hernandez |
07-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Just Average Girlsnew
Holly Austin Smith’s story demonstrates just how easily sex traffickers can lure girls—even “good” girls—away from home.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
07-18-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Holly Austin Smith
Gay Marriage Rulings Raise Questionsnew
Some LGBTQ activists believe the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision on marriage equality opens the door to making gay people a “protected class” under federal law.
Jackson Free Press |
R.L. Nave |
07-16-2013 |
LGBT
Tags: LGBTQ
Redemption Songnew
I am perplexed by how my people continue to judge each other on everything, particularly our levels of "blackness."
Jackson Free Press |
Funmi Folayan Franklin |
07-16-2013 |
Race & Class
Sex Trafficking: What Now?new
During the last legislative session, Mississippi lawmakers sharpened the teeth of the state's laws addressing human trafficking. They now give cops and prosecutors the power to aggressively pursue traffickers and the men who buy the services of the women and men the industry victimizes.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
07-15-2013 |
Crime & Justice
The Somerville Files Part 3: Rage Against the Machinenew
How a carefully orchestrated bureaucratic ecosystem ensures development by any means necessary in Somerville—legal or not.
Dig Boston |
Chris Faraone, Tom Nash and Adam Vaccaro |
07-15-2013 |
Housing & Development
Guthrie, Steinbeck, Zimmerman, Martinnew
"Why does that vigilante man carry a sawed-off shotgun in his hand? Would he shoot his brother and sister down?"
NUVO |
Kyle Long |
07-15-2013 |
Crime & Justice
The rise and fall of Georgia's pro-life movementnew
A pro-life advocate on the changing battlefield of abortion rights.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Charlie Harper |
07-15-2013 |
Policy Issues
Love across the linesnew
The book 'Amor & Exile' charts stories of binational relationships through immigration reform and the end of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Boulder Weekly |
Elizabeth Miller |
07-15-2013 |
Immigration
George Zimmerman is Not Guilty. But He's Not Innocent.new
Not since O.J. Simpson has a murder trial so divided America along racial lines.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey Billman |
07-15-2013 |
Race & Class
Colorado Springs City Council likely to ban or wait on recreational marijuananew
Council will not even consider an option to allow for recreational-marijuana stores at its July 23 meeting.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bryce Crawford |
07-14-2013 |
Drugs
S.C. to End Segregation of HIV-Positive Prisonersnew
South Carolina is 49th state in nation to have a nonsegregation policy.
Charleston City Paper |
Paul Bowers |
07-12-2013 |
Policy Issues
Top cop wore tasteless teenew
Springfield deputy police chief Clifford Buscher was wearing a t-shirt with a racially charged message when he was arrested in Missouri in 2008 after drunkenly firing a gun while on a fishing trip with three other officers. Buscher is considered next in line to be chief.
Illinois Times |
Bruce Rushton |
07-12-2013 |
Crime & Justice
On Pesticides and Potnew
Should there be concern about medical marijuana that has been treated with pesticides?
Providence Phoenix |
Valerie Vande Panne |
07-12-2013 |
Drugs
On the Offensivenew
Is it right for sports teams to use Native American imagery?
VUE Weekly |
Rebecca Medel |
07-12-2013 |
Race & Class
