In the Media
The Whatcom County Courthouse was evacuated Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 14, after an envelope labeled "anthrax" was sent to the Superior Court clerk's office.
Streets around the courthouse, 311 Grand Ave., were closed to traffic as the Whatcom County Sheriff's Office, Bellingham Fire Department and Hazmat teams were responding.
The envelope with "anthrax" written on it was inside another envelope, said County Administrator Dewey Desler.
A resume is not a necessary component of your college application. However, I generally advise students to create one. The most important reason I ask for resumes is that it forces students to reflect back on their four years of high school and take note of all their extracurricular activities, community service, work and school involvement.
KUDOS to the University of Washington for 150 years as a provider of educational excellence and access to our state's best and brightest.
The sesquicentennial offers a compelling glance back at the school's remarkable history and accomplishments, but the occasion can also serve as a reminder of the UW's valued role as one of the region's biggest economic engines.
The UW supports nearly 70,000 direct and indirect jobs and created 7,600 non-publicly-funded jobs in the past decade. The school gives better than it gets: Every dollar invested in the UW creates $22 in economic activity and $1.48 in tax revenue.
Gov. Chris Gregoire’s call to plan budget cuts of up to 10 percent sounded draconian a month ago. But they may become reality – as the governor and others now fear Thursday’s revenue forecast will erase $1 billion to $2 billion more from state coffers.
The governor’s worst-case scenario called for cuts across all of state government totaling $1.7 billion. The state Health Care Authority’s share at the 10 percent cut level was $445 million – a situation that is putting some Medicaid programs and the Basic Health Plan firmly on the chopping block.
Washington's prepaid tuition program now costs $163 a unit. The Guaranteed Education Tuition Committee set the new rate this week, to make up for this year's college tuition increases.
One GET unit cost $117 before the increase.
People can learn about a piece of federal health care reform known as the Health Benefit Exchange during a public meeting Wednesday, Sept. 14, at Western Washington University.
The exchange will create a new "one-stop shop" for individuals and small businesses to buy health insurance. Washington state officials hope to have the exchange up fully by Jan. 1, 2014.
The University of Washington is ranked 42 among public and private universities, according to a list released Monday by U.S. News & World Report.
Washington State University is listed at 115th, the state's only other school to land on the national list.
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, caused profound shock, horror, fear, anger and sorrow for Americans — and for some, lasting change. Six Puget Sound-area residents tell us how the events of that day played out in their lives.
In the days after she stood on a debris-strewn street in Lower Manhattan and watched a plane fly into the World Trade Center where she worked, Dana Macario began to think of home.
The Burien native had graduated from Western Washington University in 2000 and, "looking for a post-college adventure," followed her boyfriend to New York.
She'd landed a job with a law firm that occupied floors 37-40 of the South Tower.
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The funniest plant hybrid has to be "tomacco," a blend of tomato and tobacco plants, inspired by an episode of "The Simpsons." Tomacco has been created at least twice in real life; once by Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Ore., back in 2003, who based his work on a 1959 experiment by researchers at Western Washington University.
Don Grant was the type of guy who would call up a friend out of the blue, ask if he was doing anything and then inform him he was standing at his front door.
Friends and family describe the former Marysville man as a prankster, a risk-taker and a button-pusher who, from an early age, craved speed and adventure whether climbing trees, riding motorcycles or learning new tricks on his skateboard.
"He lived at Warp 9," said his brother, Ralph Grant.
Don Grant, 29, fell off a 300-foot cliff on Mount Pilchuck on Tuesday. He had been hiking with friends when he separated from his group and went missing. His body was recovered Wednesday by a Snohomish County sheriff's helicopter crew on the north side of the mountain. His death was ruled accidental.