As most people were kicking back over the holidays, Carla Josephson and other members of the local chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) were anxiously preparing for the arrival of a youth contingent of the anti-abortion group, Operation Rescue. While in Central Florida, more than 100 Operation Rescue protesters spent two days in…

Lawrence Budd

Rising sons?

United by race and region, a neo-Confederate revolution says, if at first you don’t secede…;;Standing atop the Charleston Battery — between the massive cannons that fired on Fort Sumter and touched off the War Between the States — Michael Hill notes the similarities he sees between a new band of Southern separatists and the militant…

Monte Paulson

Operation Rescue mission aborted

Lawrence Budd

The Club strikes back

After four months of relative anonymity, The Club at Firestone has pushed its way back onto the public dance floor with a lawsuit and a political-action plan aimed at reviving the late-night club scene downtown. And in hopes of competing for a piece of the business generated by activities supporting Gay Day at Walt Disney…

Lawrence Budd

The immoral of the cloning story

Once again, science marches on … and on … until it tramples right over humanity’s moral fences. It was less than a year ago that a lamb called Dolly was “born” — not through nature’s process of the egg and the sperm, but by being cloned in a laboratory from an adult cell. This had…

Jim Hightower

Reality check

“Sandy Skogland: Selected Works” and “Certain Grace: The Photography of Gary Monroe”, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Through March 11, 1998 Having just passed the season of Kodak moments, it’s easy to see why the concept of photography is usually stored in the mind’s file marked “reality.” To most of us, photo images offer a familiar…

Lindy T. Shepherd