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The American researchers studied the marriages and income of more than 2,500 women who married for the first time between 1979 and 2002.
They found that those women who consistently made more money than their husbands were up to 38 per cent more likely to divorce than others.
Jay Teachman, of Western Washington University, said there could be several reasons behind the statistic.
Ethel Stockton, the business owner steeped in contentious debate about the future of downtown Bellingham after Bellis Fair opened, died Wednesday, Sept. 1, in Mount Vernon. She was 94.
After her career in the paint and design business, Stockton moved to Mazatlán, Mexico, where she ran a bed-and-breakfast and wrote five novels about an elderly widow who lived life to the fullest.
Peninsula College is now fully accredited to offer its own four-year degrees, said Tom Keegan, college president.
The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities of Redmond evaluated the community college over the course of the spring quarter and granted the status to the school last month, Keegan said Tuesday.
A few weeks ago, student leaders from schools around the state gathered at Western Washington University for an event, the theme of which was, "Civic Engagement and Voting."
If some of that energy translates to the broader student body, this year will not be such a bust, although the numbers may not reach 2008 participation rates until 2012, a presidential year and when Washington elects a new governor.
Western Washington University middle blocker Emily Jepsen was named all-tournament at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Volleyball Challenge which took place over the weekend in Monmouth, Ore.
Two Bellingham friends are making waves in the educational system of Kenya.
Several years ago, Jeana King and Debra Akre organized a free high school in a dirt-poor area east of Nairobi, the capital. Last March, the school celebrated its first graduating class of 27 students, 18 of whom qualified for university entrance.
Overall, the school scored high against others in its region, with far fewer dropouts, pregnancies and cases of AIDS.
The soda industry has become aggressive in fighting any new tax around the country as legislatures and Congress looks for new sources of money to balance budgets, Todd Donovan, political science professor at Western Washington University, said. “They’ve got a target on their backs because you can only tax cigarettes so much before people stop buying them.”
There is some orange starting to show up on the edge of leaves and many of us are counting down the days before school begins. We've been shopping for a few new things to wear and stocking up on supplies. We are getting out those backpacks, which just may be a little bit lighter this year as kids and teens start research projects and homework.
Smooth-jazz guitarist Bryan Forsloff, 47, has been performing regularly at the Hotel Bellwether's Harborside Bistro for several years. He's recently released his new CD, "The Final Touch," which features local musicians Bill MacDonough, Mark Kelly, Tom Anastasio, Mike Black and Paul Baron, performing songs by Stevie Wonder, Jeff Lorber and some originals by Forsloff.
Academic researchers say there are too many other factors -- money and media being the chief ones -- to say whether such changes would temper the ideological fervor that has defined this election season. But either way, they expect to see proposals similar to ranked choice voting and Proposition 14 spread to other states.
"Some people think it's the magic bullet -- it may or may not be," said Western Washington University political scientist Todd Donovan, an expert witness in a pending court challenge in Washington state.