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Police were searching for a man who stole a woman's purse during a strong-arm robbery near Laurel Park Tuesday evening, Jan. 31.
The woman was walking near the park northwest of Western Washington University just before 6 p.m. when the robbery occurred, according to a university alert.
A couple of four-legged, furry officers of the Bellingham Police Department will make an appearance at the downtown location of the Bellingham Library for a presentation Thursday, Feb. 2.
The Greater Good Campaign hosts a conversation with six public university and college presidents and key business leaders Wednesday at Town Hall on what it means for Washington citizens to have a high-quality, well-funded higher-education system and the risks of continued cuts.
As a Mountlake Terrace High School senior in the spring of 2008, John Allen was looking to play college basketball. He was courted by several schools, including Western Washington University, but the chance to walk on at Washington State University was too tempting to pass up.
Two years later, having redshirted in his first season with the Cougars and playing sparingly the next, Allen was ready to give WWU a second look.
Now another two years later, he could hardly be happier.
After Apple reported its blockbuster $46 billion revenue quarter last week, we had a bit of fun here at GeekWire with the headline: “Apple posts three Yahoos, two Googles and a Microsoft.” Turns out, we weren’t alone in trying to put that massive amount of money in perspective.
Western Washington University student Nicholas Quinlan and Colorado iPhone app developer Ryan Orbuch developed a Web site at AppleMadeMoreMoneyThan.com where anyone can draw up their own comparisons about Apple’s results.
Community newspapers, those familiar once- or twice-weekly papers that line family scrapbooks with tales of athletic glory, county-fair ribbons and Main Street parades, are as much a part of the region's history as courthouse statues and church steeples. A newspaper was often among the very first businesses in a new town.
In the past two decades these small publications have created online editions as a rearguard defense against the Internet, merged and sold to corporate publishers, and in a few cases closed their doors forever. Somehow, most survive and some even prosper, but it's always a sometime thing and good news can become bad news in a financial as well as journalistic sense.
Elsevier, the global publishing company, is responsible for The Lancet, Cell, and about 2,000 other important journals; the iconic reference work Gray’s Anatomy, along with 20,000 other books—and one fed-up, award-winning mathematician.
Timothy Gowers of the University of Cambridge, who won the Fields Medal for his research, has organized a boycott of Elsevier because, he says, its pricing and policies restrict access to work that should be much more easily available. He asked for a boycott in a blog post on January 21, and as of Monday evening, on the boycott’s Web site The Cost of Knowledge, nearly 1,900 scientists have signed up, pledging not to publish, referee, or do editorial work for any Elsevier journal.
A genuinely good idea tends to pop out from among the nondescript crowd of been-theres and done-thats. State Sen. Derek Kilmer’s proposal to create jobs without new taxes looks like that kind of idea.
The Gig Harbor Democrat – an economic development specialist who plays down his Oxford doctorate – knows that government best builds the economy by building infrastructure. Such things as sewers, water lines, highways, ports, schools – the necessary foundations of private businesses.
LIKE many states, Washington continues to battle significant budget challenges. Unlike many states, however, our constitution declares that it's the state's paramount duty to provide for the public education of all children. Unfortunately, steady declines in public resources now threaten our ability to live up to that commitment.
As a state, we should not allow our budget situation to permanently damage our schools' ability to prepare students for their futures. But the truth is that significant actions would be needed even without our budget crisis.
Washington state's educational system is imperiled by the Legislature's failure to prioritize learning from cradle to college. Skimping on the prekindergarten budget, cutting the K-12 system without reforming it and draining funding from higher education are shortsighted budget decisions that threaten our economic future.