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News/Media Fri, 24 May 2013 05:35:00 -0400 NUVO http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/still-life/Story?oid=7090276 If not for love and art, Ndume Olatushani would have died on death row.... From Nashville Scene. News/Features Fri, 24 May 2013 13:36:00 -0400 Nashville Scene http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/protest-city/Story?oid=7088258 Tired of being bullied by governments and corporations, Alberta protesters are ready to be seen and heard on May 25.... From VUE Weekly. News/Features Thu, 23 May 2013 06:05:00 -0400 VUE Weekly http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/the-battles-after-war/Story?oid=7088042 One woman's struggle for a PTSD diagnosis and how a now-suspended veterans program helped her.... From Boulder Weekly. News/War Fri, 24 May 2013 04:06:00 -0400 Boulder Weekly http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/overdose-nation/Story?oid=7087562 As the opiate epidemic continues to ravage Northeast Ohio, a small group of folks try to distribute medicine that will stop the deaths.... From Cleveland Scene. News/Drugs Fri, 24 May 2013 11:08:00 -0400 Cleveland Scene http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/cancer-interrupted/Story?oid=7087502 Genetically flawed, just like Angelina.... From LEO Weekly. News/Health Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:00 -0400 LEO Weekly http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/why-boston-police-didnt-think-tamerlan-tsarnaev-was-a-killer/Story?oid=7087099 If anybody had a chance of identifying the Tsarnaevs ahead of time, it would have been the Boston Police Department. Here's how they fucked up.... From Dig Boston. News/Crime & Justice Thu, 23 May 2013 23:46:00 -0400 Dig Boston http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/one-officers-struggle-with-the-texas-air-national-guard/Story?oid=7086343 The Texas Air National Guard decides to step in the middle of an officer's private business, tossing him after he dates an about-to-be-divorced woman.... From Houston Press. News/War Wed, 22 May 2013 23:45:00 -0400 Houston Press http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/bad-training-by-opd-led-to-three-deaths/Story?oid=7086305 An arbitrator rules that poor training by the Oakland Police Department — not poor decisions by police commanders — led to the deaths of two officers and a murder suspect.... From East Bay Express. News/Crime & Justice Fri, 24 May 2013 23:58:25 -0400 East Bay Express http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/cityscrapes-one-more-hotel/Story?oid=7086286 Just one more hotel, and the city will boom. That has long been the mantra of this city’s business and political leaders. With her decision to support a new hotel tower atop the Joske’s building, City Manager Sheryl Sculley has now joined the crowd, fully backed by newly reelected Mayor Julián Castro.... From San Antonio Current. News/Housing & Development Fri, 24 May 2013 23:57:11 -0400 San Antonio Current http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/texas-marine-corps-vet-still-awaiting-trial/Story?oid=7086207 The U.S. Marine Corps looked the other way when 27-year-old sniper Adan Castañeda attempted suicide while enlisted. Despite Castañeda's increasingly serious outbursts at home once discharged, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs routinely ignored his mental health issues, bouncing him from crisis to crisis.... From San Antonio Current. News/War Wed, 22 May 2013 23:18:28 -0400 San Antonio Current http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/ann-arbor-didnt-go-to-pot/Story?oid=7084485 As local municipalities and states decriminalize and legalize marijuana, the city of Ann Arbor, Mich., should serve as a model of how things can go right.... From Metro Times. News/Drugs Wed, 22 May 2013 23:35:00 -0400 Metro Times http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/penrose-rising/Story?oid=7084480 In a downtrodden section of Detroit known as Penrose, a transformation is taking place through a collaboration of public and private interests, and is poised to resurrect a neighborhood all but lost to drugs and despair.... From Metro Times. News/Housing & Development Tue, 21 May 2013 12:02:00 -0400 Metro Times http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/the-mothers-day-shootings/Story?oid=7083375 The week following a bloody Sunday in New Orleans.... From Gambit. News/Crime & Justice Mon, 20 May 2013 18:18:16 -0400 Gambit http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/we-can-turn-dna-into-music/Story?oid=7080306 An Eastern Washington University professor creates audio interpretations of living things.... From Pacific Northwest Inlander. News/Tech Fri, 17 May 2013 14:15:00 -0400 Pacific Northwest Inlander http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/the-cruel-mystery/Story?oid=7078121 Extreme tiredness is one of the most frustrating symptoms of lupus.... From Jackson Free Press. News/Health Mon, 20 May 2013 18:30:28 -0400 Jackson Free Press http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/triumph-for-the-humpbacks/Story?oid=7077824 Why a Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council member wants the whales removed from the endangered species list.... From Maui Time Weekly. News/Environment Fri, 17 May 2013 13:11:00 -0400 Maui Time Weekly http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/open-season-for-animal-abuse-videos/Story?oid=7076227 Ashley Nicole Richards, who filmed herself torturing and killing kittens, puppies, cats and dogs, was the first person brought up on revised federal crush-video charges -- which backfired magnificently.... From Houston Press. News/Crime & Justice Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:00 -0400 Houston Press http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/mr-sanford-goes-back-to-washington/Story?oid=7075776 You could feel it in the air. The cautious optimism that characterized South Carolina Democrats' anxiety over the prospect of Elizabeth Colbert Busch being elected to Congress was gone. Polling numbers be damned, it was anybody's race going into the special election on May 7, and by the end of the day, it was still a toss-up.... From Charleston City Paper. News/Policy Issues Wed, 15 May 2013 14:33:35 -0400 Charleston City Paper http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/new-laws-lay-out-the-path-for-amendment-64s-implementation/Story?oid=7075712 Reefer rulings... From Colorado Springs Independent. News/Drugs Wed, 15 May 2013 14:18:08 -0400 Colorado Springs Independent http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/addicted-to-guns/Story?oid=7074966 Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?... From Chicago Reader. News/Features Tue, 14 May 2013 12:32:00 -0400 Chicago Reader http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/miami-cold-case-murder-solved-with-recovered-memories/Story?oid=7069035 Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother's killer.... From Miami New Times. News/Crime & Justice Thu, 09 May 2013 21:55:00 -0400 Miami New Times http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/antibiotics-in-your-organic-apple/Story?oid=7068186 When people think of organics, they think that the food they buy is free from synthetic chemicals of any kind. However, as noted in a recent article in ACRES USA magazine, organic apples and pears may be treated with antibiotics.... From Jackson Free Press. News/Health Fri, 10 May 2013 16:24:20 -0400 Jackson Free Press http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/quashing-the-home-school-stereotype/Story?oid=7067684 Varied social interaction, one-on-one instruction and unusual courses are a few perks of home-schooling... From VUE Weekly. News/Education Thu, 09 May 2013 14:31:00 -0400 VUE Weekly http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/kicking-my-coke-habit/Story?oid=7067432 A loyal 'candy water' drinker tries to halt The Pause That Refreshes... From Creative Loafing (Atlanta). News/Policy Issues Thu, 09 May 2013 14:25:50 -0400 Creative Loafing (Atlanta) http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/american-dreamers/Story?oid=7067332 Four stories of immigrant mothers who braved hard work, perilous journeys, even separation to raise their children as U.S. citizens.... From Nashville Scene. News/Immigration Thu, 09 May 2013 11:54:00 -0400 Nashville Scene http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/koch-problem-can-the-dailies-quit-it/Story?oid=7066786 Anyone who is still slaving away as a full-time employee at a daily newspaper in 2013 is doing it because she has no place else to go. And you can bet your bottom dollar that the Kochs know it, too.... From Orlando Weekly. News/Media Thu, 09 May 2013 11:53:00 -0400 Orlando Weekly http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/debtors-purgatory/Story?oid=7066544 People who can't afford to hire an attorney have virtually no chance in court against well-heeled lawyers for banks and debt collection companies.... From East Bay Express. News/Crime & Justice Thu, 09 May 2013 14:24:55 -0400 East Bay Express http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/sterling-high-school-keeping-it-all-together/Story?oid=7066481 As Sterling High School's year comes to an end, merger talk has the community upset, critics say they can't trust HISD, and its latest principal is pulling out all the stops to try to get kids to graduation.... From Houston Press. News/Education Thu, 09 May 2013 11:56:04 -0400 Houston Press