Posted Thu, Dec 29, 6:58 p.m.

Insurers will pay for alternative care when alternative providers buy into scientific method. While some researchers (including the federal NIH) are separating the wheat from the chaff---locally, the Group Health Research Institute is finding that some alternative therapies are helpful in addressing lower back pain (I've personally participated in their ...

Posted Mon, Jul 12, 11:16 a.m.

Henderson is right on. The ultimate fighting commercials are disgusting. And my worst fear is that something will happen to Niehaus, and we'll be subjected to more platitudes ("great guys") from Rizz. Rizz is terrible, and there's a reason he was run out of Detroit. He might talk himself into ...

Posted Thu, Jan 14, 6:01 p.m.

"Quit building skyscrapers"? "Reconnect the city to nature"? That kind of 19th century romanticism belongs in the 'burbs and those who fundamentally don't understand or like cities. Cities should be, well, cities, not nature corridors. The way to make our skyscrapers work is to revise the land-use code and require ...

Posted Tue, Jul 8, 10:27 p.m.

A correction from the writer: From Don Glickstein: Just to correct a couple of commentators: I was the official spokesman for my employer---a nonprofit consumer-governed health care system---in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Currently, I work part-time in an office cubicle in Tukwila, and speak for no one but ...