Democratic congressional candidate and LEO publisher John Yarmuth seems to have gained some ground in his challenge to five-term Republican Rep. Anne M. Northup. A New York Times article indicates that the GOP stronghold of Kentucky's third Congressional District may now be less so. The Times observes that CQPolitics.com has downgraded the race from "Republican Favored" to "Leans Republican," while another poll gives Yarmuth a 48-47 point advantage over Northup. Northup's zealous support of the war in Iraq and the congressional-page scandal appears to have eroded Northup's voter base, the Times suggests.
Geov Parrish, a Seattle Weekly columnist who resigned in August, is airing his grievances with the alternative weekly. In a column in Eat the State!, a twice-monthly Washington state political and opinion journal, Parrish laments the acquisition of his paper's parent company, Village Voice Media, late last year by New Times. "The new Seattle Weekly is being run by an enormous corporation that will run it the same way they'd run a widget factory," he writes. While much of Parrish's criticism of the reconstituted, 17-paper VVM is familiar, he offers an up-close-and-personal account of the impact of the merger on a single paper.
Bill Moyers' recent PBS special on environmentalism among progressive Christians seems to have roots in a progressive newspaper. "Is God Green?" aired Oct. 12, the Boise Weekly notes, nearly 10 months after it ran an article under the same title. Therein Jill Kuraitis wrote about Boise's Vineyard Christian Fellowship and their "green" pastor, Tri Robertson, who was preaching the gospel of good earth stewardship. The paper was soon fielding calls from PBS about Robertson and his faith-based conservation. During the program, Moyers talked to Idaho Statesman reporter Rocky Barker, who gave credit where credit was due: "The Boise Weekly, which is this kind of liberal, alternative weekly, did the first story on it."
After the weekly ran an Oct. 12 cover story about a wheelchair-bound man who filed more than 200 onerous lawsuits against small businesses failing to meet accessibility standards for the disabled, a lawyer for the profile subject has lashed back. Marc E. Angelucci, a Los Angeles attorney who represents David Allen Gunther, calls R. Scott Moxley's investigative article
"one-sided, sensationalistic opinion-disguised-as-news," in a post on the OC Weekly staff blog.
Mike Lacey, VVM and a host of other alternative papers have been sucked into the Byzantine persecution complex of perennial libertarian presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. A column blasting a number of alt-weeklies for their anti-Larouchian tendencies appeared last week in something called the Executive Intelligence Report and has been circulating in the blogosphere. Lissa Harris, a blogger for Boston's Weekly Dig, among those papers named, gamely attempts to respond with a straight face.
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