* Clean-up of the Le Letten chemical dump begins this spring
* New smoking clubs use a loophole in the anti-smoking law
* Fasnacht drummers hope to overturn an outdated law
* Basel lawmakers tolerate the recreational use of laughing gas
* University of Basel awards the first PhD in midwifery
* Fasnacht committee wants to censure songs
* Basel tests an underground garbage collection scheme
* Basel taxi drivers uneasy after several robberies
* Plan to eliminate free parking goes to referendum
* Patron of the arts Ernst Beyeler passes away in Basel
* Two Fasnacht cliques boycott the mandatory parade
* Clariant workers protest layoffs in Muttenz
* Baselland police make the third biggest drug bust in Swiss history
* Prisons in the basel area are overflowing
* Few muslim school kids exempted from swimming lessons
* Police conduct a training exercise in a Basel school
* The traditional Muba exhibition welcomes three hundred thousand visitors
Stephen