AltWeeklies Wire
Lose Your House, Collect $300
How much will the banks have to pay for the foreclosure scandal? What will people whose homes were stolen — there is no other word — receive? Now we know the details...and they're not pretty.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-15-2013 |
Housing & Development
NPS Security Confused About the First Amendment
Monterey County Weekly photographer Nic Coury was detained twice and threatened with arrest while standing on a public street and taking pictures of the exterior of the Naval Postgraduate School.
Monterey County Weekly |
Mary Duan |
04-13-2013 |
Civil Liberties
Practicing Patiencenew
No one ever said building a sacred Buddhist garden on an American Indian reservation would be easy.
Missoula Independent |
Jamie Rogers |
04-12-2013 |
Features
Occupy Medical: What Free Universal Health Care Looks Likenew
Doctors, herbalists, nurses and volunteers from all walks of life have turned a bloodmobile into a fully functioning mobile medical unit providing free health care, prescriptions, haircuts and more to anyone and everyone who needs it. Is this the new face of Occupy?
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
04-12-2013 |
#OCCUPY
Treated to Deathnew
Big Pharma's troubling history of pushing drugs on foster kids, and how a Texas girl may have died from it.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
04-10-2013 |
Drugs
Tags: pharmaceuticals, medications
It wasn't all bad...new
Strengths (and weaknesses) following the Waldo Canyon Fire
Colorado Springs Independent |
Pam Zubeck |
04-10-2013 |
Disasters
Tags: Waldo Canyon Fire
Will Mayflower, Ark. ever be the same after Exxon oil spill?new
It's all fun and games until the world's richest corporation spills 200,000 gallons of goop in your backyard.
Arkansas Times |
David Koon and Leslie Newell Peacock |
04-10-2013 |
Environment
Tags: ExxonMobil, Mayflower Oil Spill
Weak Constitutionnew
The Roberts Court may not legalize gay marriage, but it’s hard to imagine that it’ll uphold Prop 8 and DOMA.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffery Billman |
04-10-2013 |
LGBT
Til Death Do Us Partnew
The battle for a statewide domestic-partnership registry in Florida isn't just a policy fight. It's personal.
Orlando Weekly |
Billy Manes |
04-10-2013 |
LGBT
Police Protection: Speeding While Silentnew
Houston Police Department policies governing lights, high speeds and sirens are supposedly there to safeguard the public. Tell that to Mattie Etubom.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
04-10-2013 |
Crime & Justice
A Question of Identitynew
Which accused L.A. crime figure is a friend of a friend of ex-Los Angeles D.A. Steve Cooley?
OC Weekly |
R. Scott Moxley |
04-10-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Steve Cooley
Donald Trump Talks D.C. Hotels, Washington Post, Hairnew
Donald Trump has big plans for the Old Post Office building in Washington D.C. Huge.
Washington City Paper |
Will Sommer |
04-10-2013 |
Business & Labor
Tags: Donald Trump
Clip Job, or How KSBW misappropriates contentnew
The Weekly wrote a neato-keen story about which city is the pet friendliest of them all to send out on its food newsletter; 15 minutes after hitting send, the story appeared on the website of the local Hearst station KSBW, as if it were the station's own. The Weekly's cephalopod columnist, Squid, breaks down what happened.
Monterey County Weekly |
Squid |
04-09-2013 |
Media
Will the San Francisco Chronicle's Paywall Work?new
Newspapers around the globe are finally starting to charge for online content that is costly to produce. But did they wait too long?
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
04-08-2013 |
Media
Staying Silent on Suicidenew
Fear of encouraging copycats if it is mentioned could be part of the problem.
VUE Weekly |
Mimi Williams |
04-08-2013 |
Health
