Eight Reasons Not to Hold the 2012 Republican National Convention in Salt Lake City
8. The downtown Olive Garden can’t accommodate 30,000 fine-diners over a week. 7. Mitt Romney has a whole lotta unpaid SLC parking tickets from 2002. 6. The Wasatch Front only has six 24-hour right-wing talk radio stations...... From Salt Lake City Weekly.
Will New Mexico Offer Drug Users Treatment Instead of Jail Time?
There might be some good news on the horizon for those caught in the revolving door of drug addiction. Proposed state legislation would give judges the discretion to offer people with drug-possession charges a treatment program instead of jail time.... From Weekly Alibi.
Colorado Lawmakers Look to Shake Up the Recycling World, With Millions of Tires Nearby
Our goal is to break even," Chris Houtchens says, describing the financial tightrope he walks each day so that the company he runs with his father, American Tire Exchange, can turn a profit selling usable tires in the states or in Mexico.... From Colorado Springs Independent.
Writer Captures New Dimensions of Old West Legends Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
To Hell on a Fast Horse: Growing up in a small Missouri town in "the heart of Jesse James country," Mark Lee Gardner and his friends would chase each other through the schoolyard pantomiming holdups, manhunts and violent showdowns. "We all wanted to be Jesse James," he muses.... From Colorado Springs Independent.
Health-Care Practitioners Explain Why They're Willing to Go to Jail for Health-Care Reform
As the discussion about health care has shifted from coverage for all citizens to a system that will force people to purchase private health insurance (without the "public option") pockets of unlikely activists are mobilizing.... From Baltimore City Paper.
