Gov. Jay Inslee will have to find a new secretary of health.
Gov. Jay Inslee will have to find a new secretary of health.
Mary Selecky, one of the longest-serving Cabinet officials who was first appointed by then-Gov. Gary Locke in 1998, today announced plans to retire once Inslee appoints a new secretary.
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Gov. Jay Inslee continued to fill out his cabinet with the announcement of three more appointments on Tuesday.
Fewer Washington state students are drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes, but more report smoking marijuana than tobacco, according to a statewide survey of kids released Thursday, March 14.
It's likely because students believe marijuana smoke is less dangerous to their health than cigarette smoke, state Secretary of Health Mary Selecky said.
"What we know is smoke is smoke. It impairs the lungs," Selecky said of the impacts on student health.
Gov.-elect Jay Inslee’s transition team has hired headhunters who are shopping nationwide for talented people to run top agencies in the new administration.
Friends and family used a strong dose of humor to pay tribute to former Gov. Booth Gardner at a Saturday memorial service a day after a family funeral. Gardner died at 76 at his Tacoma home March 15 of complications from Parkinson’s disease.
The Army did not find a systemic bias against diagnosing post-traumatic stress disorder in a deep review of its psychiatric programs dating back to the start of the war in Afghanistan that was prompted by complaints about doctors at Madigan Army Medical Center.
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