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.
Shampoo makers, brewers and other companies that generally pitch products on television are turning their sights to newspapers, helping foster a nascent advertising recovery for the medium after a stubborn slump.
When the prostitute realized she would never have children, she chose the name she had fantasized about giving to her daughter as her escort name. The unnamed woman, telling her story to Eileen Loh Harrist of Gambit Weekly, says at first it was easy to service men. But the trade became more complex after escorts launched their own Web sites, featuring client-written reviews. The subject describes what it's like to be arrested by a naked cop and how the burdens of secrecy finally made her leave the profession.
The low-income residents who relied on Wayne County's taxpayer-funded health plan found that medical help was too often not forthcoming. Metro Times news editor Curt Guyette studies the dilemma of patients who were supposed to get service through a health maintenance organization but couldn't find doctors who would treat them. One woman begged doctors for six months to take out the drainage tubes that were supposed to be surgically removed a few days after an emergency kidney operation, but no one would do it until the governor's office intervened.
Backers of a new model hope to tap one of the last ad-free frontiers of the Internet -- the text of articles and message boards -- in what they bill as the ultimate contextual advertising play. Industry watchers question whether the new form of pop-up ads will be tolerated by online readers. But the IntelliTXT system, which rolls out today, is drawing the ire of journalists and others who say it not only blurs the line between advertising and editorial, it erases it.
After a student made harsh remarks about homosexuals in a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill class, lecturer Elyse Crystall apologized to her students by e-mail. Now the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is looking into whether Crystall's message, which referred to "white heterosexual Christian male" privilege, constitutes harassment. Independent Weekly writer Barbara Solow explores this and other campus incidents in which, she writes, "a well-financed conservative machine" battles what it considers "liberal orthodoxy" in higher education.
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