After 24 years with East Bay Express, Editor John Raeside is hanging it up. Raeside has announced his resignation, effective March 1. Managing Editor Stephen Buel will take his place. Raeside says the paper has had some remarkable accomplishments in its first year under New Times ownership and that he feels he's leaving it in good hands.
It’s OK to protest again. The undeclared cooling-off period after Sept. 11 has ended, and the anti-globalization crowd is headed to New York City for a five-day summit of business and trade leaders. This special report from LA Weekly includes John Powers on the re-emergence of protest as a national pastime, Dean Kuipers on the protesters’ six-point manifesto, and Judith Lewis on why she deplores the humorless life of an activist.
Lisa Chamberlain has been let go as editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Free Times and has gone to work for an Ohio congressman. Publisher Matt Fabyan says the decision was his. The Free Times is conducting a national search for a replacement. In the meantime, Don Forst, editor-in-chief, of The Village Voice will be spending three days a week in Cleveland to help put out the paper.
In the first of a series, Baltimore City Paper's Molly Rath goes into the juvenile justice system -- deep in -- and finds a lost and angry generation of the young and the poor. "They are loud, because they want to be heard. They are angry, because nobody listens to them. This generation is in pain," Judge David Young tells Rath. Nevertheless, amid the pervasive despair, Rath finds glimmers of hope.
Eugene Weekly is planning to publish by committee for the time being after letting go Publisher Sonja Snyder early this month. “We just had insurmountable differences as to the direction of the paper, and you can’t run a paper that way,” says Snyder, who helped found the weekly 19 years ago.
