Today the Seattle City Auditor released a report investigating and making recommendations on methamphetamine treatment in Seattle and King County. These days the news headlines are dominated by the very serious issues with opioid addiction and overdoses, but meth addiction and overdoses are also skyrocketing. The Auditor’s report argues that …
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Appointment of Dr. Faisal Khan as Director of Public Health
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has nominated Dr. Faisal Khan to be the new Director of Public Health for Seattle-King County. Dr. Khan must be confirmed by both the Seattle City Council and the King County Council. I hope you found this article valuable. If you did, please take a moment …
Continue readingCity ordinances to respond to Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade
The Seattle City Council has introduced a trio of bills to address the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court. The first bill mandates that the Seattle Police Department and City Attorney’s Office shall not cooperate with another jurisdiction’s law enforcement agency investigating or prosecuting abortion-related …
Continue readingWeekly state influenza report
The latest weekly influenza report from the Washington State Department of Health concludes that flu season is finally starting to fade. It got a very late start this year, coinciding with the lifting of COVID restrictions, and plateaued in late May — but cases have been rapidly decreasing over the …
Continue readingReport on White House mismanagement of coronavirus pandemic
Lost in last week’s January 6th hearings and the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade was a report published by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that details the role of Dr. Scott Atlas in rewriting the federal government’s coronavirus strategy — arguably spreading the virus more broadly …
Continue readingU.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling finding that there is no constitutionally-protected right to an abortion, overturning the fifty-year-old Roe vs. Wade and thirty-year-old Planned Parenthood vs. Casey decisions that had established that right. The majority opinion follows closely the leaked Alito draft, but this final …
Continue reading2021 Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities
In April the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released early statistics on motor vehicle traffic fatalities in 2021. Nationally, 42,915 people died last year, up 10.5% from the previous year. Here in Washington, there were an estimated 652 fatalities, up 16.4% from 2020. I hope you found this article valuable. …
Continue readingCDC mask mandate appeal
In April, a U.S. District Court judge in Florida struck down the Center for Disease Control’s mask mandate. Earlier this week, the U.S. government filed a brief with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to try to overturn the lower court’s ruling. I hope you found this article valuable. If …
Continue readingThe draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade
Last night Politico released a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, that would overturn the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision declaring abortion before viability of the fetus to be a legal right. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted that the draft is …
Continue readingSeattle scooter share pilot program, final report
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) recently released its final report on its one-year scooter share pilot program. As I wrote previously for SCC Insight when the draft report was released last December, you can get dizzy from all of the positive spin that SDOT adds to this report. In …
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