AAN News
"The Queer Issue"new
Outing Abe, Adolf, Jesus and
other historical greats. The life of a young
black dom on the streets in D.C. Gay
predators of the new millennium.
Homothugs on the down low
come out in Brooklyn. Finding a Jewish
mohel to circumcise a baby
coming into a family composed of one
lesbian and two gay men. It's all in The
Village Voice's "Queer Issue."
Santa Maria Sun Editor Comments
Steve Moss |
06-26-2003 3:01 pm |
Letters to the Editor
College President's Free-Fallnew
Lewis & Clark College President Michael Mooney resigns this week after revelations that he loaned $10.5 million in college funds to a former wildcatter looking for a way to reprocess waste oil. Willamette Week's Nigel Jaquiss wraps up a three-part series on the scandal with a visit to Environmental Oil Processing Technology's dormant refinery 22 miles west of Boise, Idaho, an unlikely spot to have marked the end of the respected college president's 14-year reign.
Blueprint to End Homelessnessnew
Partners in Housing, an Indianapolis non-profit developer specializing in housing for the homeless and other special needs tenants, will begin major rehabilitation work on several 70-year-old buildings this fall. Using the innovative concept of "supportive housing," the 106 units will be linked with an array of social services to provide counseling, job training and placement, access to mental and physical health care and other forms of assistance to help the low-income tenants stay housed and healthy. NUVO's Summer Wood talks to the developer, potential tenants, and community leaders about the plan and its pros and cons.
Right-Wing Group Subpoenas OC Weekly Photographsnew
Judicial Watch, which
buried Bill and Hillary Clinton in legal papers, has subpoenaed OC Weekly writer Gustavo Arellano for all the photographs he shot of a fight that broke out at an anti-immigrant rally in Anaheim, Calif., in December 2001. Judicial Watch represents the anti-immigrant group California Coalition for Immigration Reform, which claims the city of Anaheim didn't protect CCIR members when a melee broke out with counter-protesters. OC Weekly publishes the photographs in question, and it seems they may actually hurt CCIR's case.
OC Weekly |
06-23-2003 1:56 pm |
Industry News
Dallas Observer Wins Round One in Libel Suitnew
An appeals court panel rules that a March 2000 story about Dallas restauranteur Dale Wamstad's troubled family life was not libelous. Wamstad's advertising for his chain of restaurants promotes his "family man" image, which the Dallas Observer helped puncture with a story about his ex-wife's claims of abuse. The court found that Wamstad's advertising and court battles had made him a "public figure," and therefore a legitimate target for media attention.
Dallas Observer |
06-23-2003 12:23 pm |
Industry News
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Ultra-Sound: The Newest Weapon in the Anti-Abortion Arsenalnew
Crisis pregnancy centers are beginning to use the language and technology of modern medicine to help soften their appeal to clients -- but not their anti-abortion aims. Independent Weekly's Barbara Solow looks at how Christian crisis pregnancy centers use ultrasound images of a first trimester fetus to turn women away abortion. "Are pregnancy centers, as their leaders portray them, valuable community service organizations providing women with support and information they can't get elsewhere?" Solow asks. "Or are they, as abortion-rights activists describe them, 'fake clinics' that lure women in with free medical services, then use one-sided information to dissuade them from having abortions?"
Co-Founder of Alternative Paper in Spokane Dies at 37new
The Local Planet Weekly's
Founding
Editor and Co-Publisher, Connye
Miller, died June 15 of complications
related to the rare disease porphyria.
Matt Spaur, her husband and
co-publisher, remembers her in 475
words of poetry, pain and love.
Local Planet Weekly |
06-21-2003 1:33 pm |
Industry News
"She Had Evil Eyes"new
Coral Eugene Watts has confessed to 13 murders, and authorities in four states believe the true number of victims may total more than 50. They were all women, and they were strangled, stabbed, hanged, or drowned, all part of Watts' plan not just to take their lives, but to "kill their spirit." Today, at 49, Watts marks time in the Texas prison system, patiently waiting for May 9, 2006 -- the day of his scheduled release. Because, as Glenna Whitley of the Dallas Observer reports, Watts has made a career of staying one step ahead of authorities -- and of combining unspeakable wickedness with phenomenal luck.
Local Daily Warns Orlando Weekly Not to Out "Scabs"new
Orlando Sentinel says it will sue
its alternative weekly competitor if it
publishes the names of Sentinel
"replacement workers" who may take over
the jobs of unionized Baltimore
Sun
employees, who are threatening to strike.
Both dailies are owned by the Tribune
Co. Lawyers for the Sentinel argue
that "the only purpose" for publishing the
names is “to expose (the strikebreaking
workers') families to harassment
from
people in Central Florida" and claim
that such publication
would create a "palpable threat of harm to
those employees and their families."
Weekly Editor Bob Whitby
responds, "Trying to silence reporting on
a legitimate story is the worst form of
corporate behavior" and calls the
Sentinel's threats "nothing short of
disgraceful."
Orlando Weekly |
06-19-2003 4:13 pm |
Industry News
One of REI's "Owners" Asks Some Questionsnew
"Who owns REI?" the nation's largest recreational outfitter with 66 stores in 24 states, asks Seattle freelancer Andy Ryan, who once owned his own outdoor gear store. "It can't be the members. They aren't even privy to what the co-op's executives earn," Ryan, an REI member, writes in Seattle Weekly, as he takes off on a quest for answers about the Seattle-based co-op's operations.
