Stories for Jan. 10, 2008

Vivian Phillips takes the helm at Langston Hughes Arts Center

Thu, Jan 10, 4:49 p.m.

Vivian Phillips, an experienced and respected arts manager and former director of communications for Mayor Paul Schell, is stepping into the top spot at the troubled Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, effective next Thursday. Phillips's title will be contingent manager of the Center, and the job lasts one year.

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Dear UW: Here's some dough, but there are strings attached

Thu, Jan 10, 3 p.m.

By Greg Palmer

Never one to let his sense of charity get in the way of his competitive spirit, our correspondent matches another UW donor's efforts to call the shots on campus.

You can't grow branch campuses by starving them

Thu, Jan 10, 2:57 p.m.

By Richard Morrill

Let's review some of the bidding in the controversy over building a new University of Washington branch campus at Everett. I and a colleague in the UW Geography Department, William Beyers, performed original analyses for possible branch campuses for the University of Washington.

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Getting rolling on road tolling

Thu, Jan 10, 10 a.m.

By Knute Berger

It was Edgar Allan Poe who wrote "tolling, tolling, tolling,/In that muffled monotone. ..." This year, talk of road tolling and congestion pricing will increase above a whisper. With the defeat of Prop. 1 and big transportation infrastructure decisions to be made on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, the 520 floating bridge, and with federal grant money a carrot for regions that embark on road pricing plans, the tolling of Puget Sound's roads will begin to move from theory to active discussion and implementation.

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These slacks were made for dropping

Thu, Jan 10, 6:22 a.m.

By Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett

It shouldn't surprise anyone that Portlanders are dying to drop their drawers for a cause. Well, not exactly a cause. OK, not a cause at all. But perhaps a case can be made that the "No-Pants on Max" event scheduled for Jan. 12 is a big, creative international improv event. Yeah, that's it! We're not flashers, we're artists.

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