In the Media
Why is this decline in trust happening? We certainly don’t believe that city and state governments have actually become less trustworthy over time, notwithstanding perceptions. Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University, has one notion that makes a lot of sense to us. He believes the constant barrage of information has contributed to the trend. “People don’t like politics, and now it is on the news 24/7. A generation or two ago, they didn’t see that,” he says. “Maybe government has always been doing things people wouldn’t like, but they didn’t see it back then and now they see it.”
A Western Washington University student has pleaded guilty to felony harassment after being arrested this spring as part of a Canadian online child exploitation investigation.
Duane E. Stewart, 24, was sentenced in Whatcom County Superior Court Monday, Nov. 28, to one month of jail time that could be served with work crew or work release.
The flames were sparked about 2:30 a.m. by a heater behind a couch on the first floor of the house at 718 E. Maple St. while three of the renters were asleep, said Bellingham Fire Chief Bill Boyd.
Two other roommates were elsewhere at the time of the fire; all five women are believed to be students at Western Washington University.
The University of Washington made $69 million in license income from business spinoffs in 2010, the eighth-largest amount among universities across the country, according to a report released today by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM).
Inside the capitol on Tuesday, a different and hopefully more effective approach was being deployed.
Leaders of the Associated Students of the University of Washington were quietly going one-on-one with legislators, more than 30 by mid-afternoon. They are, reluctantly, backing Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposed half-cent sales tax increase as the only way to ward off soaring tuition and more deep cuts.
Shouting protesters disrupted a public hearing on proposed budget cuts Tuesday afternoon and several had to be forcibly removed by state troopers.
Of 11 people arrested Tuesday, six are accused of disorderly conduct, most for disrupting a budget hearing.
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.
Why is this decline in trust happening? Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University, has one notion that makes a lot of sense to us. He believes the constant barrage of information has contributed to the trend.
A trained teacher, Rachel Lynette no longer spends her days in a classroom. Even so, she's hard at work on lesson plans.
Those work sheets, it turns out, are valuable commodities.