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  King Corn, Sexual Abuse Victims Confront Benedict, East LA’s Taco Trucks, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Mon, Apr 14th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: los angeles, construction, beijing, pollution, olympics, corn, sexual abuse, street vendors, clean electricity, agribusiness, pope, mirrors, sunlight, catholic church, yale, tacos | 1

  Los Angeles cracks down on taco vendors, mirrors are the next big thing in sustainable energy, Yale grads release documentary on the pervasiveness of corn in American agribusiness, and more

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  Hospitals’ suburban push, fundamentalist children, blue-collar hybrids, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: transportation, headlines, downtown, construction, boston, china, oil, police, taxpayers, consumers, chinese, new york times, olympics, hybrids, sect | 0

  Hospitals’ stir fears, sect youths conditioned to deceive outsiders, Olympic torch relay switches route and more in today’s headlines.

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  Death-Defying Houses, Egregious Mortgage Schemes, Obama’s Lackluster Record, more!

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Apr 3rd, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: news, obama, headlines, california, education, seattle, foreclosure, legislation, chicago, foreclosures | 0

  More legislation news for homeowners, Obama’s education experience is reviewed, Seattle’s grocery bag fees and more in today’s headlines.

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  National parks 5-0, the Sesquipedalian spark of the Right, jailbirds, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 28th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, democrats, police, austin, agribusiness, incarceration rate, park service, farm bill, the scourge of liberalism, one percent, sxsw, william f. buckley, jr. | 0

  Dems work to keep subsidies for agribusiness

  The negotiators agreed Tuesday to find $10 billion in extra money in a last-ditch effort to save the farm bill, once seen as an opportunity to reform commodity programs and divert scarce funds to conservation, nutrition, organic research and California fruit and vegetable growers who are locked out of the Depression-era programs. The money is needed to appease these interests while still maintaining the commodity subsidies. Yet in proposals…

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  Microfinance in Queens, itinerant artists, Obamania in Milwaukee, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 21st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hillary clinton, san francisco, barack obama, meredith aska mcbride, election 2008, primaries, las vegas, dubai, mike huckabee, jackson heights, mohammad yunus, itinerant artists, sex offenders, voting gap, subway | 0

  Voting gap divides the parties

  “In Tuesday’s election, 73% of those who went to the polls voted in the Democratic primary, to 27% on the GOP side—a huge difference in a state that in November 2004 was decided by about 11,400 votes."To be sure, the race between Obama and Hillary Clinton was more meaningful than the all-but-wrapped up Republican battle between McCain and Mike Huckabee. And that may have served as a magnet for independents and crossover voters.”

  Mohammad Yunus…

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• The Daily Report

  Fake nation: On the border (2nd in a 4-part series)

  Meredith Aska McBride | Wed, Feb 20th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, los angeles, fake id, fake nation, macarthur park, social liminality, big brother, civil liberties, real id, 9/11 | 0

  There’s a lot of overlap at the margins of legality and respectability. A college kid’s fake ID lives in this zone—illegal for now, but not as sketchy as it could be given that its owner will legitimately be able to drink in a few years. But college kids aren’t the fake-ID owners law enforcement is especially worried about.

  As technology continues to improve, it’s getting easier and easier for illegal immigrants to get not just fake drivers’ licenses but also fake Social Security…

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  CRUNK!!! And pot, java, the popo, Obama, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 14th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: new york city, barack obama, meredith aska mcbride, nypd, coffee, aclu, original white trash, lucille ball, grassroots drive, koreatown, titanic, soul food, marijuana | 0

  Celebrity and Showmanship on a Soul Food Menu

  “Of a bag of ‘Original White Trash,’ a snack mix coated in white chocolate, he said, ‘If you put that in the article, you have to say it was made by a Caucasian.’

  “Among the collectibles there was a tin of Lucille Ball ‘Predic-a-mints.’ What, a questioner wanted to know, did that famous redhead have to do with soul food?

  “ ‘Soul is the very essence of who we are. And she had it,’ Mr. Willhoite explained. ‘We all love Lucy. I wouldn’t…

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• The Daily Report

  Fake Nation: Debauched youth and fake IDs (1st in a 4-part series)

  Meredith Aska McBride | Mon, Feb 11th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: meredith aska mcbride, maryland, fake nation, fakes, vladimir putin, vodka | 1

  

  Fake ID’s, long considered the province of underage college students, aren’t just for getting drunk anymore. Illegal immigrants are getting them, too, to help secure papers. Many fake-ID producers are attached to legitimate businesses—photo booths, copy centers, even some tattoo parlors. In this series, Next American City investigates the world of phony identification, from immigration to good old-fashioned anthropology (i.e. an excuse for our interns to go club-hopping) and an…

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• Headlines

  La Cosa Nostra, acts of god, perfectly fine transactions, tap that, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Mon, Feb 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, hillary clinton, meredith aska mcbride, minneapolis, crack, texas, la cosa nostra, god, gambino family, border fence, tugboat, mafia, siciliani, antonio villaraigosa, transactions, tornados, macy's | 0

  Big Mob Sweep Nets Gambino Hierarchy

  “The charges, which are being brought in United States District Court in Brooklyn and state Supreme Court in Queens, also include seven murders — three dating back more than a quarter century — along with racketeering, extortion and state gambling charges, officials said.

  “The arrests by the F.B.I. and investigators from several other agencies were coordinated with a sweep that netted dozens of accused organized crime figures in Sicily. Those…

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• Headlines

  Fragile China, urban trials, immigration backlog, Philly soccer, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Jan 31st, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, meredith aska mcbride, beijing, lake union, lunar new year festival, philadelphia soccer team, pro-soccer team | 0

  Chinese Blizzards Reveal Rail Limits

  “The snow and ice that have led to chaos at transport hubs as up to 200 million migrant workers and other travelers attempt to return home for the Lunar New Year festival next week have also restricted coal shipments along critical rail arteries feeding power stations in the southeast, China’s densely populated manufacturing heartland.

  “Food prices are increasing in major cities including Beijing as distribution bottlenecks and bad weather hamper…

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• Headlines

  Alcatraz invasions, the plastic bag backlash, psalm 1040, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Jan 24th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, meredith aska mcbride, epa, miami megaplan, alcatraz, bible tax, desert rock, navajos, bullfights columbia, plastic bags | 0

  At Amateur Bullfights in Colombia, Alcohol and Blood Flow Freely
  “ ‘I recognize that one cannot avoid the comparison with the Roman Colosseum,’ said Inis Amador, a lawyer who helped revive Sincelejo’s corralejas in the late 1990s. They were discontinued in 1980, when more than 200 people died after a wooden arena collapsed, crushing spectators gathered under the stands.

  “ ‘But why do some cultures race automobiles or climb Himalayan mountains or box each other to a pulp?’ Mr. Amador,…

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• Headlines

  Bakery corruption, baggy jeans, bike-only parking lots, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Jan 17th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Headlines | Tags: commentary, new york city, meredith aska mcbride, suburb, bikes, hispanic, fema, border fence, urban education, egypt, saggy pants, parking lot, bread, trailer | 0

  Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma

  “What is required, educators say, is nothing less than revolutionizing schools built for another century, when a high school diploma was a ticket to social mobility in a manufacturing economy, and students with only basic skills could make it into the middle class. But the task is daunting, and the outcome uncertain, experts say.”

  The Nano Challenge: What happens when the green movement crashes into the anti-poverty crusade?

  “I’m not…

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