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Courts & Crime Politics Health Housing & Development Religion & Race
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Courts & Crime
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 Exterminating Angel: For years, sisters Carleen Goodridge and Brigitte Harris battled over whether or not to confront their dad about his sexual abuse of them. It took a shocking act of violence -- Brigitte's grisly murder of their father -- to finally bring the sisters together . More >> |
 To Catch-22 a Predator: When New York began sending rapists straight from prison to psychiatric hospitals, a dozen men on Ward's Island were left in legal limbo. More>> |
 Face Off: A Harlem funeral home has been sued for losing bodies and filching corpses from nearby hospitals. Now it must answer charges that a dead man's body was chewed up by rats. More>> |
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Politics
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 Can You Guess a Person's Politics by Their Personality? Psychologist Team Says Yes: A map illustrating regional personality differences across America is surprisingly similar to the red/blue state map of the nation. More>> |
 A Hillary Hijacking: Sen. Clinton attempted to quell accusations of racial insensitivity by showing up at largely African-American union event. But for many of those present, she accomplished just the opposite—alienating many of the very African-Americans she hoped to charm. More>> |
 Eliot Spitzer's Crack Tax: Long before the jokes about Eliot Spitzer as sex dope, there were just the dope jokes about him. In response to one of the former governor's ideas—a tax on drug dealers—his critics wondered whether he was smoking something funny. More>> |
 The Long Goodbye: Among the casualties of a new crackdown on legal immigrants with criminal histories is Jean Montrevil. After legally emigrating from Haiti, Montrevil went on to start a business, marry a Brooklyn teacher and father four U.S.-born children. Now, he is being deported for a 19-year-old cocaine conviction. More>> |
 Where Politics and Hip Hop Collide: The slogan 'Vote or Die!' may have faded into obscurity, but hip hop's political movement didn't perish with it. Two factions of the hip hop community debate how to move forward. More>> |
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Health
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 Shock and Awe: Colleen Kelley's brain has been scanned, doused in experimental drugs, magnetized, and electrified. She has been cut open, prodded, and implanted with foreign objects. She has submitted to it all willingly, in hopes that the experimental treatments will finally relieve her severe depression. More>> |
 Shocking Behavior: Elizabeth Rivera thought her autistic and often violent son might accidentally kill her one day. After a series of placements at different special ed schools and psychiatric hospitals, she found the one thing that could keep his behavoir in check: an electric shock. More>>
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 Giving Us Crap: Treated sewage sludge is increasingly being applied to agricultural land as fertilizer. Farmers say it's nourishing. Critics say it's noxious. Either way, tons of California sewage is headed to Arizona. More>> |
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Housing & Development
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 The Hipster Landlords: A hip young couple clears out five low-income families from a Brooklyn apartment building to make room for their own 20-room mini-mansion. More>> |
 Motel Sucks: Exploiting a Depression-era loophole, more landlords are booting renters and opening up their buildings for tourists. One close-knit group of neighbors in Greenwich Village is fighting back. More> |
 Zoned Out: The city has proposed a major rezoning to 125th Street that could transform Harlem's thoroughfare into a canyon of high-rise luxury condos and national chain stores. City planners hail the plan as a boost to the local economy, but some Harlemites call it ethnic cleansing. More>> |
 How Not to Pay Rent: Two musicians and a yogi have are among the masses of New Yorkers living in illegal apartment buildings. Two years ago, they discovered that landlords like theirs who lease apartments in non-residential buildings cannot legally collect rent. Thus began a long, free ride. More>>
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Religion & Race
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 A Neo-Nazi Field Trip to the Met: Before a group of white supremacists made their planned field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they had decided to meet up at an undisclosed location in New Jersey. So, if the Voice was going to get into that meeting, we were going to have to trust a guy who calls himself Copperhead to take us there. More>> |
 A Whiter Shade of Christmas: Every December, Women for Aryan Unity, a Brooklyn-based group of white supremacist ladies, sends Christmas cards to their incarcerated "brothers" and raises money for needy Aryans. More>> |
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 Finding the Words to Talk About Race: Whenever I start getting lulled into the idea that maybe race and ethnicity don't matter, something happens to remind me of their power. A personal essay exploring my own bi-ethnic family and the problems with colorblindness. More>>
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 The Barely Legal Empire of Tony Alamo: Despite a stint behind bars, accusations of child abuse, and a raid on his former compound, Arkansas evangelist Tony Alamo just keeps going. Almost a decade after his release from prison, the 73-year-old has managed to rebuild his church, with significant help from supporters in New York and New Jersey. More>>
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