Local politics in Spokane can get ugly, especially when a reporter scrutinizes a development deal involving a scion of the city's reigning Cowles clan. "An e-mail exchange between real estate developer and Cowles Publishing chair Betsy Cowles and her PR lackey Jennifer West shows the disturbing tactics they employ to coerce local media, including AAN- member The Local Planet Weekly," Editor/ Publisher Matt Spaur writes.
Police and school officials usually start and stop drug education courses at promoting a "drug- free society," which has about as much relation to reality as promoting sexual abstinence. The Georgia Straight's Roberta Staley looks at the reality of how teenagers learn about drugs -- from each other. Young people need better information -- not only to protect themselves and their friends from addiction and overdose, but to complete the complex process of growing up, she argues.
Creative Loafing's Scott Henry unwraps the latest twist on the mail-order bride: American men looking for love in Russia. Eastern European women, raised in a male-dominated culture, appeal to many American men who want the old days back, when wives kept the house and raised the children. European Connections' "romance tours" bring together desperate (and often beautiful) Russian women and needy American men. Henry talks to one such couple whose unlikely match has survived.
Editor Pete Kotz says the two ad department employees had been out drinking and were just "trash-talking over the phone." Cleveland Free Times Editor David Eden claims they threatened to murder a Free Times employee and rape his wife. Whatever it was, it's now in the courts. Adam Simon and Brian LeBlanc face charges of aggravated menacing, telecommunications harassment and making threats over the telephone, The Plain Dealer reports.
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