In today's paper, I reported on a scathing letter written by Patrick Striker, the director of the city's Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, that called Mayor David Condon "aggressive and angry and threatening." Here's Striker's full email, unedited: The Mayor’s assistant scheduled a meeting...
The Spokane Public School District is testing the water in all of its buildings in the wake of high lead levels discovered at several Tacoma schools.
The state agencies, meanwhile, are launching a coordinated effort with local health departments, schools and utilities to reduce the risk of lead poisoning from drinking water and other sources.