Political Science Department
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| Who's paying? | Four years after the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United rulings unleashed floods of cash into our political system by shadowy "dark money" groups vying to influence elections, Washington state's own campaign finance disclosure laws may become more transparent under… |
2014-01-23 | |
| Consolidation Voting Case Still Complex in 3rd Year | Three years after all the votes were counted in dual votes on an attempt to consolidate city and county governments, the federal lawsuit over the dual-vote requirement in state law continues. And a look at the depositions and other written statements in the case file from the experts for… |
2014-01-06 | |
| Hungary moves towards opening Communist spy files, 23 years on | Twenty-three years after the end of Communism in Hungary, the country has taken a tentative step towards opening the secret files of the era to the public, the last former East Bloc country to do so. |
2013-12-03 | |
| Politics makes us dumb | Two questions for the morning after: Who’d you vote against yesterday? And are you feeling smarter yet, now that the fog of politics is lifting? The day after Election Day is, perhaps, not the most opportune time to point this out, but despite our lionization of citizenship and… |
2013-11-06 | |
| Civic education the focus of 3-day WWU seminar | Western Washington University is hosting a three-day seminar this week on civic education, which will feature speakers including current elected officials, public-policy experts and media representatives. |
2013-11-05 | |
| Wash. local elections have national implications | Washington state's off-year election features a series of local votes with national implications. In the airport city of SeaTac, a campaign backed by labor unions seeks to raise the minimum wage to $15 for many workers. In Whatcom County, an unprecedented amount of outside money is… |
2013-11-04 | |
| Pressing issues to see debate Nov. 5-7 at seminar | 2013-10-31 | ||
| Whatcom County coal controversy sees outside money pouring into coffers of local election campaigns | An unprecedented amount of outside money pouring into local elections in Whatcom County may shape whether the area becomes home to the largest coal shipping terminal on the West Coast. A $600 million Gateway Pacific Terminal project proposed outside Bellingham could export as much as 48… |
2013-10-24 | |
| Outside money, coal shapes Whatcom Co. races | An unprecedented amount of outside money is pouring into local elections in Whatcom County that may shape whether the area becomes home to the largest coal shipping terminal on the West Coast. |
2013-10-23 | |
| The County Council Election That Could Mean Big Things For Coal Exports | Whatcom County could one day be the home of the largest coal export facility on the west coast –- which would transfer up to 54 million tons of coal from trains onto ships bound for Asia. |
2013-10-17 |