Vol: 17 No: 9 February 24, 2010
Feature
Park Code goes flip flop
The Parks Board votes to restrict smoking. The Superintendent bans it, then reverses, enacting a 25-foot rule for tobacco use in parks. A new rule causes some confusion — while others leave homeless with few options (Read more...)
Interview
Love and loss, in all their beauty
National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty examines our connections to our loved ones—even our pets (Read more...)
News
Kasota residents find checks in mail
Sound Mental Health makes good on promise, mailing tenants $3,000 in moving money (Read more...)
Foster care runaway?
Gregoire’s proposed budget hits at two programs aimed at getting troubled kids to gain independence (Read more...)
Desperate Somalis turn to prostitution in Yemen
Refugees from Somalia’s ongoing war, women find themselves with one option: sex work (Read more...)
Just Heard - Senate would slash General Assistance
Just Heard - No vote on bill to protect peds, bikes
Community & Editorial
No consent:
“Bodies” displays the remains of China’s dispossessed without their permission. (Read more...)
Columns
Director’s Corner - “Great Recession”
Dr. Wes: No joking, no smoking
Rev. Lang: America’s real war
Street Watch - 02/24/2010
Vendor of the Week - Susan McRoy
Arts & Entertainment
Kissinger’s totalitarian kiss
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