by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 25, 2008 | News
As you read this, remember that the melting of the ice caps that anchor the planet's climate is accelerating. Desertification is advancing, part of a warming action that threatens the next generation with grave shortages of water and arable land. Those conditions,...
by Alan Bisbort | Dec 29, 2008 | News
The Reverend Rick Warren wants us to lead "purpose driven lives." We, of course, would love to do this, but every time we turn around some member of the clergy, like the Rev. Warren, is quite purposefully pissing on our leg—metaphorically and...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 1, 2009 | News
In the 15 years since Greenfield voters famously turned back a Wal-Mart proposed for their town, the Big Box battle has played out time and again across the Valley, with mixed results. While the communities and corporations vary, the arguments are strikingly similar....
by Max Hartshorne | Jan 1, 2009 | News
Lily was late, but apologetic. I met her in the lobby of my Tehran hotel. She was out of breath from the long walk and the long bus ride from central to North Tehran, the area where the rich live in today's Islamic Republic of Iran. She says she's barely able...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 1, 2009 | News
Not widely known as a hot investigative publication, the AARP Bulletin offered a heartbreaking picture of homelessness in California around the time the large financial services crashed. Seventy-three thousand are homeless in the Los Angeles area alone—a number...
