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The Washington House has released its $3.13 billion construction budget for the 2011-13 biennium, including $718.5 million in construction assistance grants for K-12 schools and $626.7 million for projects at colleges and universities.
Nearly half of the budget is paid for by bonds. The overall plan is down about $200 million from the previous biennium's budget.
The Western Washington University women's golf team is tied for third, just six strokes out of the lead, after Monday's first round of the Grand Canyon University Spring Invitational Tournament being played at the Palm Valley Golf Club.
Two Western Washington University softball players, pitcher Erika Quint and second baseman Stephanie Fox, were all-tourney picks at the 10th annual Cal State Stanislaus Tournament of Champions.
House Democrats rolled out a budget plan Monday that closes a $5 billion-plus budget gap by slashing funds for public schools, colleges, hospitals and other pieces of the health-care safety net.
House Democrats on Monday proposed closing a $5.1 billion budget shortfall through cuts, use of reserves and by privatizing the state's wholesale liquor operation.
Highlights released by lawmakers propose cutting $4.4 billion in spending over the next two years. They also would raise $300 million with the liquor privatization proposal and bring in millions more by raiding accounts outside the general fund.
Western Washington University's departments of theater and dance has been honored for a fourth time with a National Endowment for the Arts grant to restage a Masterpiece of American Modern Dance.
Dance faculty member Susan Haines was awarded a grant for WWU Dance students to learn and perform two dances by famed choreographer Martha Graham.
Western Washington University's Western Gallery premieres the Washington Art Consortium's newest collection, featuring just over 100 works on paper by 82 artists, with the theme of the Pacific Northwest's distinct geography and topography, urban habitats and inhabitants, and the long-standing wish for humanity.
With admission to the University of Washington becoming harder to attain, what should college-bound high-school students do?
Linda Jacobs, a private college adviser with College Placement Services in Seattle, says students should always apply to more than one college, and not fall in love with a single campus.
"You can do great at any school," she said. "Maybe if you don't get into your first-choice school, you can be a superstar" at your second choice.
Though it is simply a line on a map, the border between Canada and the United States is an important part of Whatcom County. What happens at the border — and on either side of the border — affects the local economy. Take as an example last year’s brouhaha over exempting residents of British Columbia from paying Washington sales tax.
So it naturally follows that it would be in our best interest to know about our neighbor to the north, who also happens to be Washington’s number one trading partner.
This is where the Center for Canadian-American Studies enters the picture. Forty years ago, a group of people at Western Washington University recognized a need to better understand the relationship between the U.S. and Canada.
Soon after the University of Washington's acceptance letters for undergraduate admission went out in the mail last month, the rumors started flying at local high schools.
High-school seniors with top test scores didn't get in.
Students who got into more prestigious schools were wait-listed at the UW.
Valedictorians with straight-A's were denied admission, while out-of-state students with lower grades were accepted.
Turns out all those rumors are true.