In the Media
Western Washington University’s Department of Theatre and Dance is teaming up with Fairhaven Middle School students to perform their own unique monologues.
Western Washington University is launching a new statewide recognition campaign called Washington Companies to Watch to honor outstanding second-stage businesses.
The artist's subject matter ranges from nature, people, ocean and landscapes, to impressionistic and abstract styles.
A collection of Roberton's works is on display at English Home and Garden, 102 29th St. SE, Auburn. The public is invited to a reception at the exhibit from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Sylvia Tag, head of the Children's Interdisciplinary Collection at Western Washington University; Bethany Hoglund, head of children's services at the Bellingham Public Library, and Aubri Keleman, teen services coordinator for the Whatcom County Library System, discussed their favorite new books for kids of all ages in recent phone conversations and emails.
Allison George, a counselor at the Renton Academy in Newcastle, has been awarded the Renton Rotary’s Teacher of the Month honor.
The night before Thanksgiving, I held my newborn granddaughter—my family’s investment in the future— and remembered something my mother often said to me: “Never sacrifice your future for your present.”
As a grand-mother and University of Washington Tacoma student, I’ve considered her words and believe that cutting state support for higher education would disregard that sage advice.
Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday warned that protesters at the state Capitol who break the law while demonstrating will be arrested.
"When I have six officers who've been injured and one other state employee who's been injured, something is wrong," she said.
Gregoire contends a small group of radical protesters are drowning out the voices of other demonstrators who want to discuss the impact of state budget cuts.
The Washington Education Association is withholding support from Gov. Chris Gregoire’s proposed half-cent increase in the sales tax to help schools and health care programs. Instead its leaders want lawmakers to look for other tax options that don’t hit the low-income taxpayer so hard.
Clearly I misunderstood.
I must be part of the 99 percent – those who thought the current emergency session of the Washington state Legislature would look like an emergency room. Except for the protesters, whose demeanor has varied from milling about to storming the castle, the place has looked more like a waiting room.
These things take time, I was told. Lawmakers have only just arrived, so they shouldn’t be expected to solve a $2 billion budget problem in just a few days. Or 30 even.
Until now, most seismic research on landslides has focused on how to identify individual slides among the general seismic din of the Earth. But in comparison with earthquakes, rockslides produce "kinda ugly signals", so they are difficult to detect, says Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a geologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham.