Eight years ago, Georgia lawmakers decided that children of a certain age who commit one of seven crimes are no longer children. Instead, they would be handed to the adult court system; a juvenile judge would have no say. If convicted, they would have to serve at least 10 years alongside adult murderers, rapists and molesters. Unlike the adults, they would never become eligible for parole. All has gone according to plan. That's exactly what many feared. Mara Shalhoup looks at the consequences of the controversial law.
Several months ago, the Portland police, without getting a search warrant, poked through the garbage of a fellow officer that they were investigating. They did so because, they argued, trash is public once the can gets to the street. They used evidence found in the garbage to indict the officer. Testing the "garbage is public" thesis, Willamette Week searched through the trash of Portland's police chief and a couple of other public officials -- and they aren't happy.
Fifty years ago, monks who chose to get away from it all to get closer to god opened a monastery in the middle of nowhere. Thanks to urban sprawl, "it all" is now poised to be their next-door neighbor. Matt Coker wonders if Sri Ramakrishna’s followers can stop the bulldozers in their once-quiet canyon.
In an important ruling on Internet publishing, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a Virginia prison warden's lawsuit against The Hartford Courant and the New Haven Advocate. The court ruled that articles posted on the papers' Web sites were not aimed at a Virginia audience. The decision reversed a lower court's ruling that the warden could sue in his home state "because that is where he claimed his reputation was damaged," E&P reports.
SF Weekly columnist Matt Smith had a simple idea back on November 27. Angered by former Iran-Contra conspirator Admiral John Poindexter's proposed electronic data-base on all Americans--a frightening effort to compile the financial, medical, employment, school, credit and government records of all citizens -- he proposed in his column that people do a little snooping on Poindexter himself. Smith helpfully provided the phone number -- and two weeks later, his suggestion is snowballing into a bona fide crusade for civil libertarians. In his latest column, Smith provides a fascinating progress report, and learns that, in the Information Age, when it comes to messing with someone who wants to mess with you, calling their home phone number is truly just the tip of the iceberg.
Patrick Baikauskas was a rising star in the GOP when he arrived in the Illinois state capital. He had worked for a Republican Congressman, two Illinois governors, and the first President Bush. But after being outed on the front page of the daily State Journal-Register, he noticed a "palpable, icy" change in the way he was treated at the statehouse, especially by his fellow Republicans, Pete Sherman writes in Illinois Times. Undeterred, he ran for Dick Durbin's Congressional seat and later made a run for City Council. He started the city's first AIDS Walk and hosted a cable-access show for the gay and lesbian community of central Illinois. Then he decided to become a Catholic priest. As Baikauskas settles into Dominican life, there are rumblings that the Catholic church may ban the ordination of homosexuals.
The Missoula Independent has hired alt-weekly veteran Brad Tyer as its new editor. Tyer, a native of Houston, takes over from Interim Editor David Madison, who will become the paper’s Flathead Bureau Chief in Kalispell, Mont. Tyer was previously editor of the Texas Observer and before that a staff reporter at the Houston Press.
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