In the Media
You know things are bad when the chamber of commerce holds its annual economic forecast luncheon without an actual forecast.
That’s what happened Thursday for the Everett-area chamber.
“I don’t want to make a forecast right now,” keynote speaker Hart Hodges said. “It’s too tricky.”
Larry Donovan hasn’t taken success for granted.
In a colorful 41-year career in coaching, Donovan has been accomplished at every level on which he has coached while working alongside names that are renowned and hallowed in the sport of football. He often reminds himself of a phrase that former player Eddie Lowe once told him.
Employee Benefits Planning recently purchased Blaine Insurance and has brought on Rod Bring, Ray Westfall and Lori Wilson as principals.
The company also has offices in Bellingham and Mount Vernon.
Bring, who will manage their Blaine office, is a life time resident of Whatcom County and earned his degree in education from Western Washington University.
Meanwhile, recent technological breakthroughs may make home solar power much more affordable. An interdisciplinary team at Western Washington University (WWU) announced in
September a $970,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for additional research on a new kind of solar collector. Traditional photovoltaic panels use only the red band of visible light. The WWU team’s collector uses colored polymers to gather light from the whole spectrum. The increased efficiency allows electrical generation on overcast days and will cut the cost of solar panels by as much as 90 percent, according to a WWU press release.
Western Washington University's College of Business and Economics has selected professor of economics Daniel A. Hagen as its 2010 Distinguished Research Fellow.
The Distinguished Research Fellow Award recognizes a tenured faculty member in the College of Business and Economics who has demonstrated sustained excellence through his or her scholarly contributions to research, creative scholarship, and publication while at WWU's College of Business and Economics, according to a press release from WWU.
When Haggen CEO and president Jim Donald pulls out a salmon during a business talk, he's not selling a fish, he's selling a story.
Knowing the power of a good story was just one of the business steps Donald presented Wednesday, Nov. 17, as the keynote speaker at Western Washington University's Bellingham Business Forum, held at the Hotel Bellwether ballroom.
"You've got to have the fish story," Donald said. "No matter what you do, you've got to be able to articulate how you get from Step A to Step B."
Washington, Oregon and California have what is known as “direct democracy.” That’s the political scientists’ term for the initiative and referendum. Voters can adopt state laws without help from the legislature.
The West Coast systems are not identical, though. One difference is that in Oregon and California, initiatives can be used to amend the state constitution. Voters in Washington can’t do that; they can only “initiate” and approve statutes that have the same standing as laws passed by the legislature.
While this clearly is a difference, does it make much difference in practical effect?
Todd Donovan seems to think so. A political science professor at Western Washington University, Donovan wrote a column on this subject for The Oregonian a week before the midterm election.
Learn, earn, return: Earl Settlemyer's philosophy was that simple.
National Philanthropy Day is Thursday, Nov. 18. It is a celebration of one of the most fundamental ties that binds us together - a love of humankind, foibles and all. It is a time when we reflect on the generosity of our community in supporting an impressive breadth of activities that directly or indirectly benefit all of us. For Earl Settlemyer, every day was Philanthropy Day. He passed away in May.
When Emily Jepsen was being recruited to play volleyball at Western Washington University, the Vikings were coming off a trip to the NCAA Division II national championship match and she just assumed that's the way it would always be.
Three years later and the Vikings are making their first trip to the West Regional since that trip back in 2007 when they finished second in the nation. Jepsen, now a junior, never thought it would take almost three years for WWU to get back to the national tournament.
The Great Northwest Athletic Conference chose Western Washington University soccer player Gibson Bardsley as its Player of the Year for 2010.
Bardsley is a graduate of Mount Si High School, where he won KingCo Player of the Year honors in 2006 and 2007.