Iconoclast calls for "Safer Deals"

Thanks to past Grits guest-blogger Rev. Alan Bean for pointing out a remarkable series of news reports critiquing the drug war from many perspectives in the current issue of the Lone Star Iconoclast, the local newspaper in Crawford, TX. Bean and his lovely wife Nancy were highlighted in the article on "The Pastors." Check out the whole series:

FEATURES

• Safer Deals: Communities Say Shelf ‘War On Drugs’
• Safer Deals: The Police
• Safer Deals: The Parents
• Safer Deals: The Patients
• Safer Deals: The Physicians
• Safer Deals: The Pastors

EDITORIALS:

• The Drug-War Addiction
• Drugs: Bureaucracy will maintain the current status quo
• The Costs of America's Longest War

The Iconoclast made headlines and angered some of its readers when the paper endorsed John Kerry for President in 2004 from the shadow of President Bush's Crawford ranch. These articles might shake up the locals further, one would imagine. It's an impressive set of features for a small-town paper - opinionated, but well worth reading. Good job, folks!