Odds & Ends: Sweden’s Trans Bigotry, That’s A Lot Of Garlic, The Melting Ice Cream Defense, This Is Not His Beach Odds & Ends: Sweden’s Trans Bigotry, That’s A Lot Of Garlic, The Melting Ice Cream Defense, This Is Not His Beach A Swedish Court has found a 61-year-old man not guilty of rape because his intended victim turned out to be biologically male, rendering [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 12, 2012 Read More
How Exploitation In Health Care’s History Informs Medicine Today Henrietta Lacks is quietly famous in the medical world. She lived only three decades, but her genetic material was harvested—without her knowledge or [...] Margaret Wright \ Jul 12, 2012 Read More
Letters: Gary Johnson Should/Should Not Be Prez, Actualizing Jobs Trillion-Dollar Shortfall [Re: Feature, “Righter Than Right, Lefter Than Left,” July 5-11] Gary Johnson will never be president. Why is he running? He doesn’t seem [...] Alibi \ Jul 12, 2012 Read More
Letters: In Defense Of Don, Big Oil, Greg’s To Bill And Taxing Cognitive Dissonance In Defense Of Don Books could be written on the subjects that Don Schrader and I disagree. However, sometimes I find myself in agreement with him, especially [...] Alibi \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More
Odds & Ends: World’s Tiniest Carjacker, Fuel Dangers, Wrong Place To Shoot Heroin, Farts Infuriate Odds & Ends: World’s Tiniest Carjacker, Fuel Dangers, Wrong Place To Shoot Heroin, Farts Infuriate The littlest carjacker has just been crowned. Police in the Gothenburg suburb of Kortedala say a 9-year-old used a pellet gun to steal [...] Devin D. O'Leary \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More
Major Changes Loom For The Developmentally Disabled Jenna Montoya is an active 25-year-old who likes going to the movies, the mall and the zoo. She was born with cerebral palsy [...] Margaret Wright \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More Jenna Montoya (right) and her mother June scan headlines. Jenna Montoya will likely lose some of her health support benefits under the redesigned state program for people with developmental disabilities. Some of her friends will see more severe cuts. “I feel bad for them,” she says. “They’re not going to receive very much help.” (Margaret Wright)
Gene Grant: How Do We Make Downtown Go? How Do We Make It Go? We woke up one glorious day and discovered that some book named The Rise of the Creative Class had something extraordinary to say [...] Gene Grant \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More ( mtungate )
Tribes Want A Say In Health Care Overhaul The Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act is front and center nationally, but debates about health care have taken on extra [...] Margaret Wright \ Jul 05, 2012 Read More ( Ano Lobb )
Get Out!: The Surreal Life In Marfa, Texas Sometimes I like to pretend I’m David Byrne exploring the fictional Texas town of Virgil in the 1986 art-house classic True Stories. That’s [...] Elizabeth W. Hughes \ Jun 28, 2012 Read More
Letters: In Defense Of Apd, Pave The Bosque Already, Cellophane Foodscape In Defense Of Apd [Re: Letters, “Don Schrader on APD,” May 17-23] For years I have tolerated the self-righteous rantings of Don Schrader and wondered if he [...] Alibi \ Jun 28, 2012 Read More
