Afefe Tyehimba of Baltimore City Paper profiles the ongoing struggles of Danielle, a former prostitute and recovering drug addict. In this second installment of a two-part series, Danielle recalls the circumstances that have led her to relapse on more than one occasion. Despite strong support from family and friends, Danielle, like so many refugees from the world of street hustling, has found maintaining normalcy even more of a painful challenge than attaining it.
Amy Jenniges, a reporter for The Stranger, was denied a marriage license to legalize her relationship with her longtime lesbian partner. To make a point about the so-called sanctity of marriage, Jenniges' gay editor, Dan Savage, asked if he could get a license to marry her. Because the two met the man-woman criterion, the King County Clerk's office granted the license. Savage told Matt Markovich of KOMO 4 News in Seattle that he and the woman he doesn't love planned to stay married just 55 hours and 10 minutes in order to best Britney Spears.
Oubai Shahbandar has upset some people at Arizona State University in Tempe by posting names and photos of professors on a Web page titled "The Socialist Professor of the Month." He called his campus chapter of the Muslim Students Association "Taliban in training" and wrote a guest column for the Arizona Republic accusing the association and another organization of being out to destroy the U.S. Joe Watson of Phoenix New Times profiles the ambitious, provocative 22-year-old student and explores his ties with leading white conservatives.
Alternative newsweeklies may fill more than half of their editorial space each week with contributions from freelancers. But how do editors go about finding the writers who are willing to work erratic hours for modest pay and yet are professional enough to deliver prose that not only comes in on time but sings? Writer Marty Levine collects the wisdom of several AAN editors who explain how they found their best freelancers, how they keep them content and what pitfalls to avoid.
Jeralyn Merritt, a Denver criminal defense lawyer who uses her Web log to promote her liberal views about the criminal justice system, never considered selling space to advertisers. Then she got a call from Henry Copeland. Since then, the Democratic National Committee, presidential candidate John Kerry and congressional candidates have advertised on her blog, www.talkleft.com. In March, the ads generated $1,000 in revenue
In 1999, when Debra DeCarlo became principal of a Providence, R.I., high school, she was faced with problems common to many urban school districts. State and local budget cuts had reduced or completely eliminated resources once deemed essential. Confused curriculum standards made it daunting for teachers to create lesson plans. Truancy and disciplinary problems turned class time into a discouraging, even life-threatening experience. There were more dropouts than graduates. The building itself was coming apart. It still is. Marion Davis reports for The Providence Phoenix on how educators like DeCarlo are addressing such challenges by taking chances and making a difference, not so much in test scores, but in how their students feel about learning.
Creative Loafing Charlotte "is still waiting for some kind of clarification or retraction after a March 16 WCNC-TV report that had a Charlotte-Mecklenburg vice officer saying that CL is kind of a pimp for illegal 'spas,'" Shannon Reichley writes. No one on the broadcast accused the daily Charlotte Observer, which runs the same ads, of pimping, the alt-weekly's media columnist complains. Still, she's never liked the fact that the two papers earn cash from businesses she describes as legitimate but "sleazoids."
Patients' private medical or psychiatric records could go up on the Web, and there's little the victims could do to get them down, Tara Servatius reports in Creative Loafing Charlotte. Jignesh Tanna of Vashi Transcribe in India threatened U.S. doctors that he'd publish their patients' records if a North Carolina firm, Accuscribe, didn't pay his company the money he felt it was owed. Although he later retracted the warning, the dispute remains unresolved. Servatius describes how outsourcing dilutes the privacy protections contained in the Health Insurance Portablity and Accountability Act.
On Wednesday, Publishers Information Bureau reported that total magazine rate card revenue totaled slightly more than $4 billion in the first three months of the year, up 7 percent year-over-year, even as the total amount of ad pages sold fell 2.3 percent to about 48,000.
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