In the Media

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

"Rachelle Berry and Samantha Rutherford each had clutch two-out singles to plate the tying and winning runs and Sarah McEnroe pitched 3 1/3 innings of scoreless relief as Western Washington University rallied for a 2-1 extra-inning win over San Francisco State University in the nightcap of a non-league softball doubleheader Wednesday, March 24, in San Francisco."

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

"The city for the first time has received a rating on the effectiveness of its building code enforcement, and that could help save money on new construction.

Bellingham officials announced this week that the city's building code enforcement has received a "2" rating from the Washington Surveying and Rating Bureau. The rating is used by insurance companies to assess how well a municipality does the work.

And because of that, the insurance costs on a new home or business could be reduced by as much as 10 percent, though it would be up to the insurance company to determine that."

Thursday, March 25, 2010 - The Northern Light

"Ruth Lauman of NWcascades.com presented her redesign of the Blaine Chamber of Commerce’s website at their last luncheon. The easy-to-navigate website has a bright and fresh design and features beautiful photos of the area. New features include extended membership listing with social media connections, photo gallery for media releases, and a special section on doing business in Blaine. Also, downloadable maps showing restaurants and lodgings are available as well as a listing of local wifi hotspots. Congratulating Ruth on her design is Eric Grimstead of the Center for Economic Vitality at Western Washington University. Check it out at www.blainechamber.com."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - (Los Angeles) Daily News

"A firefighter's lungs burn as he huddles under a makeshift firestorm shelter. An Indian woman's back aches as she beats her clothes against a rock. A cyclist's legs grow weary on the way to work.

Such struggles were solved Tuesday by the nation's keenest young tinkerers at America's largest manufacturing trade show in Los Angeles."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - The Olympian

"Most state lawmakers stayed away from the Capitol on Tuesday as a House-Senate dispute over taxes remained stuck in a political ditch.

Top House and Senate negotiators were in Olympia to bring ideas for ending the impasse over how to raise $800 million in new revenue – without the temporary sales tax increase that the Senate has suggested. But no one publicly offered new ideas, and most rank-and-file lawmakers won’t be coming to Olympia today, either."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

"The son of a single mom from Federal Way, Matt Jarrell says he may never have made it through Western Washington University without the money he received from Pell Grants.

Virgilio Clinton of Olympia, like Jarrell a senior at WWU, says he has lots of friends who wouldn't have been in college except for the grants, which provide more than $260 million in financial aid to nearly 100,000 students in Washington state."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - The Bellingham Herald

"An Oregon deputy superintendent and a Colorado interim superintendent are the two finalists in the Bellingham School District's search for a new superintendent.

Gregory Baker, deputy superintendent of the Portland Public Schools in Oregon, and Steven Herzog, interim superintendent of the Douglas County School District in Castle Rock, Colo., were named finalists by the Bellingham School Board on Tuesday, March 23."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - Port Townsend Leader

"Leif Whittaker has always known that walking in his father's shoes would be a difficult chore.

But here he goes, at age 25, leaving Port Townsend this week to climb Mount Everest.

In 1963 Jim Whittaker, at age 34, became the first American to summit the world's tallest peak. Now, it's his younger son's first try at the mountain."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - ZDNet.com

"In the 25-plus years I’ve written about technology, I’ve interviewed fewer than 50 female Microsoft employees (by my rough estimate). In part, this is because there are less of them. Microsoft officials say women comprise 25 percent of the company’s total workforce. It’s also because many of the women who do work at Microsoft are in marketing, sales and support roles and aren’t among those who are 'authorized' to talk to us press/blogger types."

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - The Oxford Times

"That’s the Ambassadors, by the way, of Western Washington University, in the US city of Bellingham – though the photograph on the right might easily lead you to a different conclusion.

A group of seven young performers from this state-funded academy are in Oxfordshire this week on what has become an annual visit to Sophie’s Barn, a performance space commemorating Sophie Large, killed aged 19 in a road accident, at her parents’ home in Chacombe. Their Northwest Shorts were presented to a full house there last night, and will be given again tonight at The Mill in Banbury."