Spokane Deputy Mayor Jack Lynch returned to work Monday from an unexplained medical absence and criticized The Spokesman-Review for its coverage of his disappearance from City Hall last month. "Am I angry? You bet. Am I upset? You bet," Lynch said in an interview Monday afternoon about newspaper coverage of his leave. Lynch left his job with undisclosed health issues on Sept. 18. Through his wife, he requested and was granted a medical leave on Sept. 25 by Mayor Dennis Hession. The leave came after Lynch had suffered a black eye and broken rib in a bicycle accident on Sept. 3 and two of his vehicles were spotted by police in August at a city park known for lewd conduct. Last Thursday, the newspaper reported that Lynch's request to be placed on paid medical leave came at a time of questions about his visits in August to High Bridge Park at the confluence of the Spokane River and Latah Creek, a park long known for nude sunbathing, lewd conduct and drug use. The story was accompanied by a photo of Lynch with a blackened right eye. For the rest of Mike Prager's SR story, click here.
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
returned to work Monday from an unexplained medical absence and criticized The Spokesman-Review for its coverage of his disappearance from City Hall last month. "Am I angry? You bet. Am I upset? You bet," Lynch said in an interview Monday afternoon about newspaper coverage of his leave. Lynch left his job with undisclosed health issues on Sept. 18. Through his wife, he requested and was granted a medical leave on Sept. 25 by Mayor Dennis Hession. The leave came after Lynch had suffered a black eye and broken rib in a bicycle accident on Sept. 3 and two of his vehicles were spotted by police in August at a city park known for lewd conduct. Last Thursday, the newspaper reported that Lynch's request to be placed on paid medical leave came at a time of questions about his visits in August to High Bridge Park at the confluence of the Spokane River and Latah Creek, a park long known for nude sunbathing, lewd conduct and drug use. The story was accompanied by a photo of Lynch with a blackened right eye. For the rest of Mike Prager's SR story, click here.
