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The Village Voice this week tells a story that sounds old but is brand new: mob control of New York City's waterfront. "Nearly 50 years after On the Waterfront, a dozen years after [a] prosecutorial full-court press, here was the Brooklyn U.S. attorney last month, flanked by the local head of the FBI and the city's top organized-crime cops, at a press conference announcing the indictment of no less a figure than Genovese crime family boss Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, his son, and six other alleged mob figures in a new round of waterfront crimes," Tom Robbins writes in the Voice.

Miami New Times looks into the controversy around charter schools. In "Resegregation Now, Resegregation Forever," Rebecca Wakefield takes apart the pitch to "go charter" at Snapper Creek Elementary School in Dade County. "As [charter schools] have grown in popularity, most of their grassroots elements have been replaced by a new industry of national management companies, many fueled by venture capital and marketing hype reminiscent of the late-90s dot-com boom," she writes.