Study: Newer antipsychotic drugs are little improvement.
Pioneer Square alcohol rules don’t seem to have much effect.
Livid over the vague voter-enacted state law allowing use of medical marijuana, a crusading lawyer tries to untangle unintended consequences. The law has driven the supply system underground, pot patients are getting busted, and some cops, prosecutors, and judges just don’t get it.
The challenges of an outdoor smoking ban.
Again, state cuts threaten King County services for indigent mentally ill people.
Lawmakers seem likely to pass a mental-health requirement for insurance providers.
Environmentalists take the commissioner of public lands to court.
Mayor Greg Nickels says a taller, denser downtown is inevitable, even desirable. But critics like Peter Steinbrueck say bigger isn’t better unless you do it right.
There are those in our civic whirl who would prefer to keep Seattle a veritable pre-Kevin Bacon Footloose and poop…
Seattle vs. The Feds.
Seattle pot is produced with pride by growers who say that B.C. bud sucks.
People, Politics, and Media
Convicted of assault, a kink aware AIDSHIV physician could lose his license.
City government and homeless group SHARE/WHEEL face off.
At Western State Hospital, a hundred patients are in mental health purgatory. They should be freed, but the bureaucracy won’t budge.
The state’s biggest newspaper lays it on the line for a union.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, & MEDIA
You’ve surely heard the hype about the 2000 Bordeaux wines: the best vintage since 1961; the greatest vintage of the…
Mayor Greg Nickels and the City Council have heard the public’s 911 calls loud and clear.
Sue Rahr says the paper’s series on her department has been ‘biased, unfair.’
