In the Media

"Whatcom Transportation Authority should cut management positions and a Washington, D.C., lobbyist, freeze salaries in 2011 for non-union employees and delay the release of online trip-planning software, staff recommended.

The transit authority's management also recommends eliminating rider transfers. To raise money, management suggested putting wrap-around advertising on buses and ads at bus stops."

"Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's endorsement of a 2nd Congressional District Republican has caused a written sparring match this 2010 election season.

Palin endorsed Snohomish County Councilman John Koster on Saturday, June 12, via Twitter, where she called him a "pro-family, pro-business, rock-solid commonsense conservative.""

"Earthbound Farm has established a new product innovation team and hired accomplished organic industry veterans Tracy Miedema, Alec McErlich and Peter LeCompte. This high-powered team will lead the Company's development of new product lines, capitalizing on Earthbound Farm's position as the leading producer of organic produce while also venturing outside of the produce aisle. All positions are newly created."

"Tomorrow night at the Bishop Center, Grays Harbor College will award 260 degrees.

The ceremony starts at 7 p.m. and the school has drawn a big name to deliver the commencement address — Gov. Chris Gregoire."

"A former Edmonds-Woodway High School graduate announced his goal to help fixed-based operator (FBO) businesses fly again with the start of a new web-based company.

Twenty-one year old Chase Larabee, Founder and CEO of ALLFBO.com, found passion for aviation as a young child with his father who is a pilot."

"The end of the school year brings goodbyes to favorite teachers and friends for the summer.

For retirees, they are often tearful goodbyes after long careers with friends, co-workers and generations of children."

"It's a collage built by committee, a cluster of images signifying a community.

So, like the yearlong celebration it announces, the Sequim centennial logo -- marking the city's 100th anniversary in 2013 -- is loaded with symbols of life here.

There's a bugling bull elk, lavender stems, sunshine, farm fields, the Olympic Mountains, a wide irrigation ditch and one of the city's first big boxes, the old Clallam Co-op granary."

"The 2011 and 2013 NCAA Division II Cross Country National Championships will be in Spokane, the NCAA Division II Championship Committee announced earlier this week.

The championships will be co-hosted by the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and the Spokane Regional Sports Commission in partnership with the Plantes Ferry Athletic Complex and the Mirabeau Park Hotel."

"The worst oil spill in U.S. history could have been prevented had basic risk assessment and a strict permitting process been followed, said an environmental toxicologist who spoke Tuesday at Southern Oregon University.

Wayne Landis, director of the Institute of Environmental Toxicology at Western Washington University, said the catastrophe was "entirely predictable" because the government agencies responsible for risk assessment and permits are underfunded and undermanned."

"If there were a poster child for pedestrian cell-phone hazards, Paige Odebralski might just be it.

In January, the Riverside teen was so absorbed in a phone conversation after school that she tripped on a dirt path, fell down and scraped her knee."