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The $1.4 billion budget crater left by the state revenue forecast last week may require new cuts of up to 10 percent in many state government programs over the next few months.
But cuts of any size might be impossible at some agencies, such as the Department of Corrections. Secretary Bernie Warner said that to make cuts, he would need to trim prison sentences by up to 120 days for all inmates except sex offenders and people imprisoned for violent crimes.
In 1861, 28 years before Washington became a state, the smattering of people who lived here decided that the territory needed a university. On 10 acres of donated land in downtown Seattle, the school that would later become the University of Washington was created.
On Tuesday, the UW launched a school-year-long celebration of its founding 150 years ago. The kickoff took place at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle, the approximate location of the UW's first building.
Seattle Pacific University President Philip Eaton will vacate his post next summer, saying "it is time now to hand over this strong university to the next leader."
Eaton's depature was announced Tuesday, one week before classes start at the Christian college in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood.
The city's Public Development Authority board is developing plans that could transform the old downtown Federal Building into a home for a Western Washington University program to help local artists develop successful art-based businesses.
Mayor Dan Pike recently named Dan Guyette, dean of WWU's College of Fine and Performing Arts, to the authority board.
At a Tuesday, Sept. 20, board meeting, Guyette said the center would serve as an "arts business accelerator" in which groups of artists would get help from students and faculty from the College of Business and Economics to develop business plans.
Rachel Ballard shares her first published novel, "A Long-Forgotten Truth," the story of a young woman's search for her biological father (and ultimately, herself) at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at Village Books, in Fairhaven.
Ballard grew up on Mercer Island, where, she says, she collaborated at an early age writing ghost stories and political satire with her two best friends. She has lived in Bellingham since 1998. For more on her life and her writing, go to http://rachelballard.net/content.
Western Washington University's Associated Students Pop Music presents the first show of the season, a free outdoor concert open to the public featuring Ra Ra Riot, an American indie rock band from Syracuse, N.Y. that opened for Death Cab for Cutie at Mount Baker Theatre in 2009.
Students returning to Western Washington University will see plenty of changes when it comes to campus dining.
After being awarded the university's dining contract last spring, Aramark spent the summer working with Western to revamp its dining operations. The result is six new restaurants, a few expansions, and a variety of renovations to cafeteria areas.
Along with changes to the food options, technology is also playing a role in the changes: At the new Burger Studio in the Viking Union, students can build their own burger through touch-screen kiosks. Students also will be able to text the staff at the Ridgeway Commons dining area, with staff responses posted on a digital screen in the dining room.
In Seattle, the rich may get richer.
But the poor get pollution.
A recently published study by academics from the state shows that the most dangerous air pollution in Seattle is becoming concentrated on the vulnerable residents of poor neighborhoods.
The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Women in Safety Engineering (WISE) Common Interest Group has honored Nicole McOmie, M.S., of Vancouver, WA, for making a difference in the safety, health and environmental (SH&E) field as part of the WISE ‘100 Women, Making a Difference in Safety’ project. Women from around the world and throughout history have been honored for their dedication to protecting people, property and the environment and for going above and beyond to make a difference.