AltWeeklies Wire
HIV's New Normalnew

Christina Rock was born with the dreaded virus. Now she's a mother of two starting the holy grail of drug regimes.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
05-30-2013 |
Health
Tags: HIV Treatment
The Next PTSD Crisisnew

Can the Armed Forces afford to accurately diagnose soldiers--and their families--with psychological issues stemming from war?
Seattle Weekly |
Keegan Hamilton |
08-08-2012 |
Health
Tags: Military Mental Health
Tales from the Housing Bustnew

When people walk away from an underwater mortgage, they don't always walk away.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
05-09-2012 |
Features
Jared Hagemann's Hellnew

One soldier's death, and what it says about the problems facing returning veterans.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
11-11-2011 |
War
The Evolution of John McKaynew

How a Republican aristocrat turned into a marijuana activist.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
09-29-2011 |
Drugs
Washington's Screwed-Up Sex-Offender Registrynew

How leaving cops to sort out who's dangerous can change lives in an instant.
Seattle Weekly |
Jonathan Kaminsky |
09-07-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Hustle & Woenew

Aspiring rap mogul Shyan Selah stands accused of fleecing Jimi Hendrix's best friend and his associates.
Seattle Weekly |
Keegan Hamilton |
05-09-2011 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Shyan Selah
Seattle Police Chief Punched Out of Job?new
Seattle Acting Police Chief John Diaz earned a few points toward a permanent appointment when two Seattle police officers were caught on tape last month kicking a wrongly detained suspect, Martin Monetti, and threatening to "beat the fucking Mexican piss out" of him. Then came the punch that may have knocked him out.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
06-16-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Downed By Law: An Immigration Attorney's Predatory Practicenew
Immigration attorney Antonio Salazar's clients got more than they bargained for--namely, deportation.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
04-26-2010 |
Immigration
Tags: Antonio Salazar
Attorneys are Looking to Extract Everything They Can From a Bankrupt Jesuit Ordernew
Kate Sanchez, a member of the Colville tribe, still feels revulsion when she comes here, remembering the sexual, physical, and emotional abuse she says she experienced at the hands of Jesuit priests at a school that was once a thriving boarding school four decades ago.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
03-01-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Haitian Chaos: Of Course Aid is Difficultnew
Recently, an Italian official labeled the American response in Haiti "pathetic." And an NPR report described the food distribution of international agencies generally as "irregular, inadequate, and often violent and disorderly."
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
02-08-2010 |
Disasters
Citizen Action: An Army Vet Goes After the Officers Who Held Him at ICEnew
Imagine that you, as an American citizen, were plucked from normal life and taken to a detention facility for illegal immigrants. Now imagine that it took seven-and-a-half months for officials to figure out that—as you'd said all along—you were not only a citizen, but had honorably served in the U.S. Army.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
01-25-2010 |
War
Seattle's Program for Handling Injured Workers is in a World of Hurtnew

Employers complain that Washington's workers'-comp system is generous to the point of crippling employers. They believe rates are being raised to support ever-expanding benefits that are too easily obtained, and a bloated bureaucracy.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Onstot |
01-25-2010 |
Business & Labor
In Seattle, Local Somalis Struggle to Understand Why Young Men Would Return to a Country They Never Knewnew
23-year-old Abdifatah Yusuf Isse's family thought he was visiting his girlfriend in Minneapolis during an extended break from studying economics at Eastern Washington University. In fact, he revealed, he was calling from Somalia.
Seattle Weekly |
Nina Shapiro |
12-21-2009 |
War
Can an Apparently Law-Abiding Citizen Be Arrested For Having a Bulge in his Pants?new
It happened to Dustin Warren Harrington around 11 p.m. on Aug. 13, 2005. Police Officer Scott Reiber thought Harrington looked suspicious walking through a neighborhood at night. He then flipped a U-turn and asked Harrington if they could talk.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
12-21-2009 |
Crime & Justice