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Do you have any irrational fears? Do you fear gnomes or puppets? Do you imagine overpasses or bridges collapsing when you're driving? Do check the toilet for rodents or ritually look under the bed for spiders? How do these fears affect your behavior? Why do people have irrational fears? How do they develop? Does everyone have something that they worry over that is unlikely to happen?
A small-business conference that provides networking and training opportunities will be held at Whatcom Community College Sept. 9-10.
Western Washington University's Small Business Development Center, Whatcom Community College and sponsor Whidbey Island Bank, will host ThinkBiz 2010.
District voters last elected a Democrat — former state Sen. Kathleen Drew — in 1992. Dino Rossi edged out Drew four years later. Republicans rode to victory in ensuing elections for the statehouse seats.
While Anderson led the field by a large margin, that lead might not be as big in November, said Todd Donovan, a political-science professor at Western Washington University.
Working with Western Washington University, the district used ground-penetrating radar over both cemeteries to figure out which unmarked plots were empty and which contained caskets that may not have been included in the district's records. All of the plots with notices were found to be empty.
Western Washington University continues to be among the top universities in the country, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking.
For the third year in a row, WWU was ranked the third-best public, master's-degree-granting university in the West, a region stretching from Texas to Alaska. WWU was the highest-ranking school in the Pacific Northwest on the public school list.
Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University, said the state not only has a strong Republican base, but voters who are more than willing to toss out an incumbent, even one in a leadership position. House Speaker Tom Foley, a Democrat, lost his re-election bid in 1994, and in 2000, Sen. Maria Cantwell beat GOP incumbent Slade Gorton.
Craig Henderson is back on the road, hoping to drive from the Canadian border to the Mexican border on about 14 gallons of fuel.
He set out Sunday, believing he can better his performance from 1986, when on a similar trip, Henderson's specially engineered car grabbed the Guinness world record for mileage, getting an average of 103.7 miles per gallon.
Gov. Chris Gregoire recently appointed a Higher Education Task Force. It has many laudable goals, including making higher education funding more reliable and making colleges more affordable.
A Western Washington University journalism assistant professor just got some major protection from a federal judge, and she's calling it a win for all reporters. Carolyn Nielsen will not have to turn over information about her reporting on a story about a 13-year-old boy convicted of murder and sent to prison for 50 years who has since been exonerated, in part, because of her stories.
Climate change, growth and the search for new sources of energy appear daily in headlines and news reports. But the next show at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art is unusual in that it asks artists to respond to these issues. "Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment" is a collaboration between Willamette University's museum and the Western Gallery at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash.