Steve Fennessy received a notice that his license had been suspended for a DUI in Sarasota, Fla. He'd never been to Sarasota. This was the door that led the reporter into "a strange netherworld of law enforcement, where the normal rules of American jurisprudence are suspended." After about 100 hours of hassling with bureaucrats, Fennessy is no longer linked to a con with an arrest record miles long. "I was me again. Not him. "
"I don't want to get in the Guinness Book of World Records for money buried in a small-market weekly newspaper," explains CBW owner Dodge Morgan after closing the paper he bought in 1990. "The losses continue and the actuarial tables plod on," the 71-year-old Morgan tells the Portland Press Herald. According to Morgan, CBW's ad revenue dropped 20 percent after the Portland Phoenix arrived in 1999, and the paper continued to lose $5,000 a week even after he cut the editorial budget earlier this year. Staff writer Theresa Flaherty says that Morgan -- who lost over $2 million publishing CBW -- provided the paper's 14 employees with a "generous" severance package.
The face of homelessness in cities around the country is changing. Families now represent the largest growing segment of our homeless population, and in South Carolina, each night one in five children falls asleep hungry. Homelessness does not discriminate. Several photographers and artists from the Lowcountry responded to an invitation from Crisis Ministries to use their cameras and their talents to provide a visual essay on just who are the women, men, and children caught in the web of homelessness. Charleston City Paper reprints some of these images.
