AltWeeklies Wire
An Iraq Vet's Oval Office Ambushnew
With war memories torturing him, Alexis Janicki tried to bust his way into the White House.
South Beach Menacenew
A scuffle minutes from the nation's sandy playground highlights its slimy underbelly.
Miami New Times |
Francisco Alvarado |
03-14-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Sex Offenders Swept Under the Bridgenew
In sending sex offenders there, state authorities have placed them a block away from a treatment center for victims of child sexual assault.
Miami New Times |
Isaiah Thompson |
03-14-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Slavery's Truthsnew
Paper documentation is revealing who once held people as property.
Metro Times |
Larry Gabriel |
03-13-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
They Mind the Gapnew
If it seems like SEPTA cries poor every year, there's good reason.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Tom Namako |
03-13-2007 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
The Cheyenne Mountain Re-Entry Center: Inside Outnew
New private prison trains offenders to live on the outside -- if they get there.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Naomi Zeveloff |
03-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Real ID Act is Trouble for Trans Peoplenew
In the post-9/11 world, the transgender community might not have so much of an identity crisis as an identification problem.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
03-13-2007 |
Sex
TransConnecticutnew
Why transgender equality is the new civil rights struggle.
New Haven Advocate |
Casey Miner |
03-13-2007 |
Sex
Shot or Not? The Battle Over the HPV Vaccinenew
It sounds like a wonder drug, and no one argues with the vaccine's potential -- but not everyone is sure about the speedy move by Florida lawmakers to force parents to vaccinate or file a waiver by the time their daughters turn 12.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
03-13-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
An Uncanny Resemblancenew
New Orleans' criminal justice system in the Gilded Age offers a window on today's fractured efforts to cap crime.
Gambit |
Jason Berry |
03-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Fall of the Black Widownew
North Carolina authorities bust a notorious former Dallas scammer.
Dallas Observer |
Glenna Whitley |
03-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Split Decisionnew
Media outlets disagree about naming a suicidal attorney before police released his name -- did the public have a right to know?
Tags: media
Inside America's Drug War at the Juarez House of Deathnew
A dozen men were tortured, killed and buried in a small house in Juarez -- three years later, the U.S. government is still trying to cover up what happened.
Dallas Observer |
Jesse Hyde |
03-13-2007 |
Drugs
Tags: Drugs
How Seattle Ended Up With the Great Wall of Waterfront Blightnew
Given the acrimonious political debate over the Alaskan Way Viaduct's replacement, leading to Tuesday's mail-in advisory ballot, you'd think the elevated eyesore was controversial even before its 1953 opening -- not true.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
03-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Funding the American Dreamnew
A state-sponsored program designed to help low-income families build wealth has become a saving grace for displaced hurricane victims.
Gambit |
Jeremy Alford |
03-12-2007 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
