Alt-weekly geeks everywhere can still remember the thrill we experienced upon first catching site of a Village Voice newsrack in the background of a shot in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Which helps to explain why we eagerly anticipate the recently released Courteney Cox-vehicle November, which, according to the Los Angeles Daily News, features "repeated shots of an alternative newspaper with a headline that reads 'Is Modernism Dead?'" Sounds like a real cliffhanger.
The coalition was formed in order to support the passage of several bills that have been introduced in Congress to improve the Freedom of Information Act. The group hopes to educate the public and lawmakers about FOIA by providing examples where its use exposed government corruption, or where a government agency denied or failed to respond in a timely manner to a FOIA request that had the potential to do the same. If you have such an example that you'd like to share, contact AAN Executive Director Richard Karpel at 202/289-8484 or rkarpel-at-aan.com.
R. Scott Moxley, a writer for the Santa Ana, Calif., alt-weekly, first reported on Dr. George Steven Kooshian (pictured) in July 2001, sparking an FBI investigation. The article detailed allegations of illegal practices, which included administering saline solution -- passed off and billed as expensive medication -- to AIDS patients. Because of the doctor's good reputation in the local gay community, Moxley's series of six investigative stories was at times bitterly criticized. Kooshian (and one of his former nurses) will be arraigned Aug. 1 on 25 counts of health-care fraud and other charges.
A team of reporters from the Mississippi alt-weekly and a documentarian from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation accompanied Thomas Moore during his recently concluded trip to Jackson, Miss. Moore's brother, Charles, and his friend, Henry Dee, were killed there by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. During his visit, Moore convinced U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton, who served under Moore in the Army, to commit to forming a task force to re-investigate the case. Read the Free Press story here.
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