In a rare post-show interview with Santa Fe Reporter's Dan Frosch and Jonanna Widner, legendary rapper KRS-One ruminates on hip-hop: from young turks trying to battle him to elder statesmen passing away. He also muses on how the industry perpetuates poverty among its own musicians and precipitates its own downfall with buffoonish caricatures of hip-hop life.
"'What's Ogden?' I said. 'It's the place where most of the boys pass thru and always meet there; you're liable to see anybody there.'" That's how Jack Kerouac described it 50 years ago in "On the Road," and he'd probably still feel at home today. But now, trendy 25th Street boutiques compete with downtown's empty storefronts and half torn down strip malls. And Kerouac's grimy railroad town has a new scourge. Kristy Davis writes about methamphetamine, money and mercy in Utah's second city.
Connie Wimer, owner/publisher of Cityview in Des Moines, is the first woman ever inducted into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame. Her company, Business Publicatons Corp., publishes the weekly Des Moines Business Record in addition to Cityview and six other publications.
As a critical vote draws near on the controversial Ahmanson Ranch development near Los Angeles, Michael Collins, reporting for Ventura County Reporter, unearths a slew of evidence that raises serious questions about possible contamination of the site's groundwater. With everyone from Gov. Gray Davis to activist/actor Rob Reiner calling for a halt to the project, members of the Ventura County board of supervisors face perhaps the most critical decision of their careers, Collins reports.
