AltWeeklies Wire
Animal Hoarders Love Their Many Pets to Deathnew
A Colorado couple with 146 neglected dogs exhibited a symptom common to animal hoarders: a distorted view of reality. None can see the squalor that is immediately apparent to outsiders.
Westword |
Eric Dexheimer |
10-04-2004 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues, attachment disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, a state inspector, Alan M. Beck, Barbara Novoryta, Brenda Schaible, Bureau of Animal Protection, caretakers, Carol Ann Martin, Elaine and Donald Marshall, Fred Schaible, Keith Synnestvedt, Mary Flanagan, Scot Dutcher, Tammy Schaible, the chief animal-cruelty investigator for the Denver Dumb Friends League, Trinidad State Junior College, zoophilia
Much More Could Be Done to Clean Up Port Pollution, Study Says
A study released by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Coalition for Clean Air doesn't tout a single “magic bullet” for reducing pollution. “Harboring Pollution: Strategies to Clean Up U.S. Ports” takes a broad, multi-faceted approach.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
10-02-2004 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Everyone's Clucking About Backyard Chickens
They help the garden, devour kitchen scraps, and give you free-range eggs at home. No wonder urban-dwellers are loving backyard poultry.
Monday Magazine |
Heather Mah |
10-01-2004 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Mississippians Boycott State Fair Over Racist's Inclusionnew
Richard Barrett, leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist group headquartered in Learned, Miss., has requested and been granted a booth at the State Fair's Agricultural building. And not many people are happy about it.
Jackson Free Press |
Ayana Taylor |
10-01-2004 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
The Army Wants Usnew
The Army's "Spirit of America" show ventures into a non-military town, and citizens' reaction hasn't been entirely positive.
Don't Ask, Don't Tell: After Moving, Child Molester Continued Abusenew
A former elementary school principal is facing trial for murder of an 11-year-old boy he took on a camping trip, after it was discovered he bought a poison detected at the scene of the boy's death. (Second in a two-part series)
Philadelphia Weekly |
Aina Hunter |
10-01-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Best Example of Hypocrisy in Big Media: Tag — You're Outnew
When it comes to outing gay people, newspapers have certain standards that they like to herald, but if they can get away with it, let the presses roll!
New York Press |
Michelangelo Signorile |
10-01-2004 |
Media
Kingdom of the Sick: Recovering Lustnew
After falling ill last year and experiencing everything that came afterward—a month in the hospital, the removal of my spleen, many rounds of chemotherapy—I felt that my sex life was over.
New York Press |
Henry Flesh |
10-01-2004 |
Science
Big Brother in Your Carnew
The U.S. Department of Transportation and various corporations are jointly developing futuristic-sounding technology which could drastically reduce traffic fatalities, but it has potentially dire consequences for Americans' privacy.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Tara Servatius |
09-30-2004 |
Policy Issues
Therapeutic Thanksnew
Gratitude can be your best tonic. Everyone's got an inner curmudgeon, but the trick to preserving your well-being is to keep it on a short leash.
NOW Magazine |
Sibylle Preuschat |
09-30-2004 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Contraceptives at Teen Centers Restrictednew
Last week, the state Department of Human Resources board decided it would be best if teen centers -- which have a goal to reduce teenage pregnancy -- faced further restrictions on, of all things, handing out contraceptives.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
09-30-2004 |
Sex
Alt-Weekly Columnist Sledgehammers Home a Pointnew
According to Wayne Laugesen, columnist for Boulder Weekly, there are times when members of the press need to stop observing and start participating. As such, he smashed a bunch of hazardous antique windows.
Tags: media
The Bill for Alexandernew
The cost of educating kids with autism is high, and as the number of autism diagnoses skyrockets, schools and states are struggling to pay the tab. Second in a three-part series
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Rich Lord |
09-30-2004 |
Science
Cell Dividenew
In the wake of the Bush administration's refusal to fund stem-cell research, a California ballot measure proposes the biggest state-funded effort yet. Christian conservatives aren't the only ones who oppose the proposition.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tali Woodward |
09-29-2004 |
Policy Issues
George W. Bush and the Press in the Age of Chaosnew
The real media scandal is not the inauthentic memos at CBS but the way big news companies have evolved so at times their behavior closely resembles that of the government bodies and private power centers they are supposed to be examining.
The Village Voice |
Sydney H. Schanberg |
09-29-2004 |
Media
