Debbie Eason, founder of the Creative Loafing chain of alternative newsweeklies, is planning a new venture after selling the chain to her children. She intends to launch a new paper, either weekly or biweekly, covering intown western Atlanta, appropriately called West Side Story, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. She tells the daily her new paper won't compete with Creative Loafing-Atlanta.
Columbus Alive, in a thorough investigative report, reveals how secret experiments for both war and weather control are spewing weird chemicals into the air. The residue of the mysterious chemtrails includes toxic chemicals and carcinogens, sources tell the alt-weekly. One scientist tells the paper that original experiments with seeding clouds with aluminum oxide were conducted to prove that this should not be done. The same source cites rumors that the Bush administration will soon announce a program of weather modification and says that would be "political suicide."