Cedar

The story of Cedar the goat, seized by Shasta County, California, sheriff’s deputies from the sobbing nine-year-old girl who raised him, sharply focuses competing views of animals. Cedar's passage from a county fair to a community barbeque garnered reactions that depended on whether you regard the goat as a stolen family pet or as livestock destined for slaughter. Cedar was raised in 4-H, a youth program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Over a year, kids bring commercial breeds of cattle, pigs, goats and sheep to…

The complaints residents of Cedar Run Apartments in Denver have about their aging complex came to a head in January when many units lost heat during a cold snap. It was the latest in a list of grievances tenants had expressed both to management and to the city’s department of health — no heat, no hot water, cockroaches, leaks, black mold — with asbestos even discovered in one of the buildings after a fire in December. So, residents have taken the uncommon step in Colorado of organizing, albeit informally, to bring…