AltWeeklies Wire
A Penny for Your Local Cops and Firefighersnew
Xentel and other companies do fund-raising for local police and firefighters' organizations -- and keep a remarkably high share of the donations for themselves.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Wyatt Olson |
03-16-2005 |
Business & Labor
'Renewable Energy' Program Spews Out Pollutantsnew
Florida Power & Light's Sunshine Energy Program
isn't as green as promised. Most of the money sent in by well-intentioned customers will not go toward buying energy produced from traditional "clean" sources like solar or wind but from the burning of industrial wood waste and landfill methane.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric Alan Barton |
03-16-2005 |
Environment
South Florida's Tabloid Valley Vanishesnew
The story behind the consolidation of all the major scandal sheets into one company, and the National Enquirer's upcoming move to New York City, is a shocker.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Trevor Aaronson |
03-16-2005 |
Media
DDT and the Contaminated Splendor of Painted Rock Reservoirnew
The emergence of Arizona's second largest lake is no cause to celebrate. Its water will disappear under the scorching summer sun, leaving behind a poisonous legacy.
Phoenix New Times |
John Dougherty |
03-16-2005 |
Environment
Seminal Case: Court Could Consider Sperm Donor's Parental Rightsnew
A lesbian plans to appeal a Texas court ruling that would allow the gay man who donated his sperm to father her child to sue to establish his parental rights.
Houston Press |
Michael Serazio |
03-15-2005 |
Sex
Banana Workers Claim Pesticide Made Them Lose Virilitynew
A Dallas County jury will be hearing a case to determine whether Dole Food Company Inc. is responsible for the sterility of hundreds of Costa Rican workers. The case is part of a massive wave of litigation over the pesticide DBCP.
Dallas Observer |
Rick Kennedy |
03-15-2005 |
Environment
Program Has a Dream for Low-Performing Schoolsnew
In spite of campus facelifts, mandatory uniforms and new resources, San Francisco's first three "Dream Schools" have a long way to go before they become the dazzling college-preparatory academies to which San Francisco parents will be clamoring to send their kids.
Miami Lifestyle Magazine Rakes in the Millionsnew
Some may dismiss the magazine's content as mindless fluff or starstruck drivel, but Ocean Drive has perfected a formula that's the envy of the publishing world.
Miami New Times |
Brett Sokol |
03-14-2005 |
Media
Acquisitions Prepared Pulitzer Inc. for Salenew
In the years preceding Pulitzer Inc.'s sale to Lee Enterprises, Pulitzer president and chief executive Robert Woodworth grew the company through strategic moves like buying a group of suburban St. Louis, Mo., papers. Second of two parts
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
03-14-2005 |
Media
Former Sexual Offender Has Trouble Finding a Homenew
Rehabilitated prisoner Cary Verse had to face an angry crowd of people in court and convince a judge he should be allowed to live in their neighborhood.
East Bay Express |
Justin Berton |
03-14-2005 |
Crime & Justice
The Countercultural Christiansnew
Catholic Workers live in voluntary poverty, refuse to incorporate, take the homeless into their homes, and fight for social justice. They turn the left's idea of Christianity on its head --
and shake things up within Catholicism at the same time.
Under Siegenew
As illegal immigrants surge across Southern Arizona, life for ranchers living near the border has become a living hell.
Tucson Weekly |
Leo W. Banks |
03-10-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
Florida Gov. Silent on Demand for Justice in Chappell Murder
On a rainy evening in 1964, Johnnie Mae Chappell was gunned down in a Jacksonville neighborhood and three of the four suspects walked. Four decades later, state senator Tony Hill is calling to have the case reopened.
Folio Weekly |
Susan Cooper Eastman |
03-10-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Business Over Biologynew
Recent survey results found for every five Fish And Wildlife Service scientists, at least one has been directed to exclude or alter information from a USFWS document. Critics say pro-business power has run amok at the agency.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
03-10-2005 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Come One, Come All to the GOP's Family Daynew
It looks as if the GOP-backed decision to designate March 12 as the first-ever "Family Day at the Capitol" could turn out to be more successful than anyone had imagined. Several groups are seizing the opportunity to spur hundreds, if not thousands, of their supporters to the Capitol to show opposition to certain conservative legislation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
03-10-2005 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
