SUBURBAN

Canada Geese Drawing Shoppers to Store

Buyer beware: A pair of Canada geese guarding their nest outside an Illinois furniture store are attacking unwary shoppers, even drawing blood from a few people.

Police in NYC Suburbs Face Charges

Manslaughter, rape, assault. A recent spate of allegations against police officers on the outskirts of New York City has raised fears that a big-city problem has invaded the suburbs.

Judge Backs Town's Animal Sacrifice Ban

A federal judge on Monday ruled against a Santeria priest who challenged an animal slaughter ban on the grounds it interfered with his right to perform religious sacrifices in his home.

Texas Sex Club Sues Over City's Ban

A man who holds sex parties in his home sued the suburban Dallas city where he lives Wednesday, claiming that a recently approved ban on sex clubs unconstitutionally targets his lifestyle.

Suburban Sex Parties Draw Complaints

The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock's split-level home, which has a group sex room and attracts as many as 100 people to swinger parties featuring "Naked Twister" nights.

France's Ghettos Hope to Beat Sarkozy

Many blacks and Muslims in the troubled neighborhoods ringing French cities voted for the first time, saying they were motivated by one desire: to stop law-and-order, tough-on-immigrants Nicolas Sarkozy from becoming president.

12 Million Suburbanites Live in Poverty

As Americans flee the cities for the suburbs, many are failing to leave poverty behind.

France Sends Riot Police to Marseille

France's interior minister sent riot police to patrol the southern port city of Marseille on Sunday after a group of marauding teenagers torched a bus, gravely burning a young woman.

Timeline of Unrest in French Suburbs

A timeline of the violence in French housing projects populated largely by Arab and African immigrants and their French-born children, and the government's response:

2 Public Buses Torched in Paris Suburb

Police deployed 4,000 reinforcements as marauding youths torched at least two public buses Friday, the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France.

500 Extra Police Sent to Paris Suburbs

French officials pledged to deploy hundreds of extra police on buses and streets in restive Parisian suburbs on Friday, the first anniversary of rioting that raged through heavily immigrant housing projects on the outskirts of cities nationwide.

Clash in France Leaves 7 People Injured

Police northwest of Paris used tear gas, rubber pellets and fired a warning shot to disperse a crowd that surrounded their vehicle after they tried to stop a driver for not wearing a seat belt, a police union official said Monday.

Cartels Use Surburban Homes to Grow Pot

Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.

Handyman Gets Life in Suburban N.Y. Murder

A laborer who raped and murdered a suburban homemaker in her bedroom after being hired to clean a backyard deck was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the chance of parole.

Are Expanding Cities Killing the Planet?

Source: The Nature Conservancy

According to a new study, at least 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and humans are building the equivalent of a city the size of Vancouver every week.

At OpEdNews: Going 55, Approaching 60

Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive

A great snapshot of Israel in time. The politics, the wonder, the atmosphere and the longing for frontier zionism that seems to have waned from Israel's youth today.

How to Fertilize Urban Food Deserts

Source: worldchanging.com

The urban "food desert," a neighborhood in which residents typically must travel twice as far to reach the closest supermarket or other mainstream grocer as people in better appointed neighborhoods, is not just a problem of social or economic justice; it's about public health as  …

Schools and race | Still separate after all these years | Economist.com

Source: The Economist

Five decades after the Supreme Court struck down school segregation, black and white children continue to learn in different worlds. And it could get worse

Courtesy Chevrolet –dealer for new and pre used Chevrolet vehicles in San Jose and Morgan Hill, CA.

This is a well-established dealer for all ranges of Chevy in two prominent places, San Jose and Morgan Hill, CA. I would recommend this for the range of vehicles and variety of finance options here. I found the 2007 Tahoe enticing enough at this dealership

The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair

Source: AlterNet.org

Millions of Americans live trapped in soulless exurbs which lack any kind of community, leaving them feeling isolated and vulnerable. Without alternatives for their social despair, they flock to demagogues promising revenge and a mythical utopia.

Aerial Photographs of Mexico City (English)

Source: Digg

A former Mexico City helicopter pilot has posted a stunning gallery of his aerial photos of the city and environs. Some of these photo's are amazing!