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While the City Slept

a Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent Into Madness
Jun 17, 2016
The commenter, salsabrarian, makes an interesting comment: // How many more tragedies must occur before government provides full support for treating and supporting those with mental illness? \\ Since this book is being cited, perhaps one should examine the author, a reporter and the history of his publication, The Stranger? Both Eli Sanders and other reporters there have gushed on and on about Gary Locke who, as governor of Washington, seriously cut back on spending on the Western Hospital for the Criminally Insane; and signed the Interstate Compact on Parolees - - bringing three out of every four ex-cons into the Seattle and Puget Sound area [and only the families of four slain police officers in Lacey have settled with the state government, many others, and ignorant attorneys, evidently aren't aware of this, since other murders, assaults, et cetera, have also resulted from this]. And, Gov. Locke offshored a bunch of jobs from a bunch of state agencies - - not reported, and actually censored at times, by Eli Sanders and The Stranger paper! [This is important as it shrinks the state's tax base, although makes the government budget appear better for the short term - - but subtracts from spending on social essentials!] Also, the individual who wrote the legal brief for Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist to dump all the mentally ill out onto the streets back in 1978, Michael Young, was recently president of the University of Washington [now with U.T], but neither Sanders nor The Stranger would report on this, and did indeed censor remarks about this from the newspaper online. So if the author and his paper are aiding and abetting those involved, then receiving a Pulitzer for writing about it, the problem becomes collusion between elements of the media and the government!