Tom Grant, editor of the Local Planet Weekly, announces that he's leaving his job and running for mayor of Spokane, Wash. Grant has been a journalist for 23 years, primarily as an investigative television reporter. His reporting helped free more than a dozen innocent people from jail in the mid-1990s, and he recently helped uncover a secret deal in Spokane by which millions in taxpayer dollars were being diverted to the richest family in town. He has been with The Local Planet for two years.
Assistant News Editor Chris Lydgate has been chosen by the University of Michigan's Knight-Wallace Fellows program to be one of 12 journalists who will take a nine-month sabbatical to study in a field of their choice. Lydgate's specialty is emerging diseases and syndromes.
Nashville-based NWA/TNA, an upstart wrestling organization, is taking on the giant of the pro wrestling world, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Robert L. Doerschuk looks at this mythic business struggle that's playing out with all the spectacle of the wrestling ring -- complete with "faces" -- the good guys -- and "heels" -- the bad 'uns. "Growing numbers of viewers are burning out on WWE's weekly programming, in which [the] stars are run through skits involving necrophilia, murder, racism, blasphemy and other ponderously provocative angles," he writes. "This weariness, measured by WWE's plummeting ratings, may give NWA/TNA its best chance to bring the giant down."
Jay Smith and Buddy Solomon, Cox Newspaper executives who sit on the Creative Loafing board as a result of Cox's 25 percent ownership in the alt-weekly chain, were apparently taking notes during the board meetings. The proof? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Cox's flagship daily, last week rolled out accessAtlanta, a free-circulation weekly aimed directly at CL's young readers. John Sugg dubs the new paper Creative Loafing's Mini-Me and says CL has taken steps to freeze out Cox's Trojan Horse board members. "This action has exposed [Smith and Solomon] to charges of conflict of interest and the appearance of bad faith and ethics," says CL President and CEO Ben Eason. "We intend to wage this war with everything we have."
New York is mired in the biggest budget shortfall in its history. Village Voice writer Sydney H. Schanberg says Gov. George Pataki put political gain way ahead of the pain this fiscal hemorrhage will cause, especially for the state's poorest residents. "The scandal-tinged governorship of George Elmer Pataki is now caught in its biggest scandal of all — how he, apparently to ensure his election to a third term last year, kept from the voters the gravity of the state's financial situation and thus worsened the crisis by not taking early emergency measures to deal with it," Schanberg writes.
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