With President Bush's proposed marriage initiative, Uncle Sam turns matchmaker. But does government-sponsored marriage support actually work? Chisun Lee reports in The Village Voice on the politics behind the programs, and Sharon Lerner shows how they fall short of reducing poverty. Plus: profiles of five unmarried women -- potential "targets." The plan is the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, "who derides 'the underclass' as criminal, oversexed, and lazy, makes a feint at remedying such 'dysfunctional behavior,'" Lee writes.
Started as a hell-raising environmental, liberal weekly in 1968, the venerable Maine Times published its last issue last week. Christopher Hutchins, the weekly's latest owner (a conservative), told the staff he was no longer willing to cover the paper's losses, Editor Jay Davis tells the Portland Press Herald. "The Maine Times that folded yesterday isn't the Maine Times that we started in 1968," said [John] Cole, who lives in Brunswick. "Readers no longer were absolutely sure what the Maine Times stood for," the Press Herald reports. The Maine Times, formerly an AAN-member paper, hosted the 1987 AAN convention.
Kiki Yablon, who plays guitar in a punk rock band, has been promoted to managing editor of the Chicago Reader. She has been on the Reader's staff since 1996, directing the alt-weekly's music coverage, the Chicago Sun Times reports. Editor Alison True says Yablon is "perfect" for the job and won the position over a host of outside applicants. True has also promoted three Reader associate editors to senior editor: Holly Greenhagen, Kitry Krause and Laura Molzahn.
Susan Atkins, a Manson Family disciple, is seeking parole after 33 years behind bars. OC Weekly's R. Scott Moxley reviews her parole hearing file and finds testimonies to Atkin's prison redemption. A devout Christian, a married woman who needs a hearing aid, a mentor to other prisoners, a favorite of her jailers, an accomplished artist. Quite a trip from the woman who once testified that she'd stabbed pregnant actress Sharon Tate because the sound of Tate's voice pleading for her life was irritating.
Award-winning political writer and columnist Jim DeFede has resigned from Miami New Times, the Daily Business Review reports. DeFede, who has been at the paper for more than 10 years and says "(i)t was a great place to work," plans to write a book about the diversion of commercial air traffic to Newfoundland on Sept. 11. Local journalist Ed Wasserman says, “[DeFede] electrified municipal coverage in this town. He was simply the best I’ve seen in my 20-some years here.”
There's no question serial killer Cary Stayner is a monster. Currently serving life without parole for a homicide during which he kidnapped and raped 26-year-old Yosemite National Park environmentalist Joie Armstrong before decapitating her with a knife, Stayner faces new charges this June for the similarly misogynistic, brutal murders of Carole Sund, her 15-year-old daughter Juli, and Silvina Pelosso, a 16-year-old Argentine exchange student. Few people are likely to shed a tear should Stayner be put to death for his crimes. But this week the San Francisco Bay Guardian asks whether the satisfaction of revenge is worth the price tag. With the costs of capital punishment cases superceding those of incarcerating people for life by millions in taxpayer funds, even Armstrong's mother doesn't think so.
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