Rushdie writes, "Liberty is the air we breathe, and we live in a part of the world where, imperfect as the supply is, it is, nevertheless, freely available, at least to those of us who aren’t black youngsters wearing hoodies in Miami, and broadly breathable, unless, of course, we’re women in red states trying to make free choices about our own bodies."

The police chief has been asked to draft stricter privacy policies before the council gives any further consideration to a plan to put cameras around Old Town and Chinatown.

Video has surfaced of the rather inflammatory address The Stranger's Dan Savage gave to the National High School Journalism Convention, hosted in Seattle a few weeks ago, causing students to walk out. Did he go too far?