PUBLIC OPINION SPLIT ON FUTURE FIVE DEVELOPMENT

City denies access to public documents on 5 Pts. garage

Before President Bush’s state of the union addresses, I used to write the words “terror” and “freedom” on a log sheet and put little checks next to them every time he said one. Standing in the back of city hall on March 19, with Doug Quackenbush, city planners, and the Five Points Association slated to speak at a Five Points zoning hearing, I wrote the words “funky” and “eclectic” in my notebook and made sure my pen had plenty of ink left. Instead, there was a different term that kept popping up: “new urbanism.”

City jails to improve flawed bond system

“I know it happens,” Austin told Columbia City Council on March 19, “because I’ve had to intervene in the past"

This here is the story of a man, a powerful man who run the whole dang country for a while, then, not too long ago, he jus’ up and disappeared; his name was Deadeye Dick Cheney.

Crimes By Zip Code

We’d love to correlate random isolated incidents of people going ape shit in the streets with the growing paranoia of an economic downturn and rapid rate of home foreclosures across a frightened American middleclass landscape, but unfortunately sometimes it’s probably just a case of too much crack cocaine...

THE UNMADE

By Jennifer Lynne Ziemann

“Vera understands that sadistic violence not only shatters but actually unmakes the world of the survivors.” I read this line in a book review written for Dissent magazine by Susie Linfield titled “The Bleeding Wound: Zimbabwe’s Slow Suicide.” The Vera she refers to is Yvonne Vera and the book The Stone Virgins.

During the night and day after reading it, I kept returning to the magazine to this page and this sentence, “…sadistic violence not only shatters but actually unmakes the world of the survivors.” I’ll go one step further : it not only unmakes the world of the survivor, it unmakes the survivor.