Soldier's Heart Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to face
serious psychological problems and a system that may not be ready to help them. By Dan Frosch
In This Issue Gary
Webb was more right than wrong in his San Jose Mercury series alleging that the
crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles had its roots in the U.S.-backed Contra
war in Nicaragua
A
debt to Gary Webb Former A.P. reporter Robert Parry on Gary Webb's work
and the mainstream media smear campaign against him
No
thanks to the LA times Marc Coooper of the LA Weekly explains how the Los
Angeles Times mangled its reporting on Webb's series -- and then mangled the obit
The
other homeless Care Not Cash helps some by hurting others By Rachel
Brahinsky
Power politics A push to renegotiate
PG&E's low franchise fee could give the city money and leverage By
Matthew Hirsch
Obituary: Beverly Kees 1941
- 2004 Plus links to other obituaries, tributes and remembrances, and details
on the memorial service. By Bruce B. Brugmann
Gifts
on the fly A guide to 11th-hour holiday shopping.
By Starla Estrada
Music:
Crosstown traffic Galaxy Records reissues look back at a critical intersection
of Bay Area R&B and rock ’n' roll — and "Foxy Girls in Oakland." By Lee Hildebrand
Art:
Empire wreckers “Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya” and an exhibit
of works by Sue Coe summon violent hallucinations, past, present, and future.
By Stephen Beachy
