In the Media
The Bellingham Arts Festival will return this year from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. July 31 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 1. The Chalk ArtFest will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 31.
New this year, the festival will cover another block to allow over 20 more artists and food vendors. The festival will take over the 1200, 1300 and 1400 blocks of Cornwall Avenue in downtown Bellingham, and feature move than 60 Northwest artists, displaying works from pottery to fiber art to paintings.
Seattle Public Schools made several announcements today regarding personnel, but the most significant for West Seattle was the naming of the new principal at West Seattle High School, to succeed the departing Bruce Bivins. They also named new principals for Alki Elementary and Madison Middle School.
"Here's more evidence of discontent among the voters: Six initiatives appear headed for the November ballot after meeting the Friday deadline for turning in signatures.
Some would have major implications for the state budget if approved."
Sustainable motoring, powered by battery-electric, hydrogen, or hyper-efficient combustion, promises both the convenience afforded by conventional cars and the clear conscience of reduced fossil-fuel use. The technology is ever sexy, but is it ready for the market?
The Automotive X Prize, the finals of which take place this month, aim to find a car that is both eco-friendly and fun to drive. So far, it's proving tough, New Scientist reports.
Several major motor companies now offer electric cars, including Honda, Toyota and the newly floated Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors, with General Motors' Chevrolet Volt joining them from next year.
As expected, the recently concluded Automotive X-Prize Knockout Stage was not easy. The challenge was particularly brutal to the teams competing in the mainstream class. Of the nine teams that entered, the only team that will make it to the finals stage is Edison2 with its Very Light Cars (one of which is seen at the front of the line in the picture above). In the entire competition, only 15 vehicles from 12 teams are left. Pretty soon, we'll be able to pack everyone left competing into a mid-sized RV.
Research illuminating an ancient language connection between Asia and North America supports archaeological and genetic evidence that a Bering Strait land bridge once connected North America with Asia, and the discovery is being endorsed by a growing list of scholars in the field of linguistics and other sciences.
The work of Western Washington University linguistics professor Edward Vajda with the isolated Ket people of Central Siberia is revealing more and more examples of an ancient language connection with the language family of Na-Dene, which includes Tlingit, Gwich'in, Dena'ina, Koyukon, Navajo, Carrier, Hupa, Apache and about 45 other languages.
Cascade Bank, the principal operating subsidiary of Cascade Financial Corporation, has named Debra L. Johnson as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Johnson has served as consultant and interim CFO at Cascade since February of this year. She has nearly 30 years of banking experience, including 12 years as Chief Financial Officer for a major community bank in the Puget Sound region.
Many companies have been busy shedding jobs during this recession, but in Whatcom County high-tech employment growth has been robust, according to a new report.
When the Legislature gave the state's universities and colleges permission to raise tuition, lawmakers insisted it wouldn't reduce access to education.