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Heritage Turkeys of the year

Posted Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect, and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011? The envelopes, please...

Sequim mastodon creates mystery about the first humans here

Posted Mon, Dec 5, 2 a.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

The death of a mastodon nearly 14,000 years ago is helping reverse scientific thinking about the origins of human settlement in the Americas. Clearly, sophisticated hunting took place without any spread of culture from Alaska down the West Coast.

Cutting-edge research is whittled by state

Posted Wed, Nov 30, 2 a.m.

By John Stang

The state's Life Sciences Discovery Fund grew out of the tobacco settlement with big hopes for promoting health and jobs in Washington. But even with employment looking good in the biotechnology area, politicians are pulling back on investment.

Needed for Washington wines: better research

Posted Thu, Aug 25, 2 a.m.

By Ronald Holden

Other regions understand that you need world-class and localized research to support all those vineyards and winemakers. Now, there are signs we are figuring out how to "stay up with the big boys" in such wine-rich areas as California, Australia, and Europe.

Libyan students at WSU, elsewhere face end of educational chances

Posted Sun, May 8, 2 a.m.

By Kirsty Whitmore/Murrow News Service

WSU's Libyan grad students have taken key roles in national efforts to stay in school despite the cutoff of their government's funds.

Earth Day and beyond: WSU research could help rain gardens work effectively

Posted Fri, Apr 22, midnight

By Lisa Stiffler/InvestigateWest

A Washington State University research program in Puyallup will help determine what works and what doesn't in low-impact development aimed at reducing stormwater runoff.

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Short-term cuts pose long-term threats to state higher education

Posted Mon, Apr 18, 2 a.m.

By Dick Nelson

The presidents of the state's universities are united in stressing the need for adequate higher education funding, a key to the state's future. But they seem to want to ignore the state's revenue problem.

School soccer: heading for trouble?

Posted Sat, Mar 26, 2 a.m.

By Byron Edelman/Murrow News Service

Soccer season kicks off this month around the state. In a sport that was originally a ground game, the ball is spending more and more time in the air. Will head injuries increasingly plague the players?

Dreams of more irrigation meet the environmental questions

Posted Thu, Mar 24, 2 a.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

In Eastern Washington, decades of irrigation are depleting the Odessa Aquifer. Should the state and federal government lead a rescue built around what has been called "the big fix" of diverting even more river water for farming?

An irrigation project with New Deal echoes blooms in Eastern Washington

Posted Wed, Mar 23, 2 a.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

Anti-tax sentiment may have taken hold in much of the country, including east of the Cascades. But a stimulus-package irrigation project is reopening discussion of much-larger work.

Access to broadband is limited in much of rural Washington

Posted Fri, Feb 18, 2 a.m.

By Brier Gabriel/Murrow News Service

Sometimes having an internet connection means sitting in your car outside the local library to pick up a wireless signal.

Big sports weekend could even bring wins

Posted Fri, Sep 10, 7:48 a.m.

By Mike Henderson

Win, lose, even draw (Sounders), it won't be uneventful.

UW tuition debate carries heavy freight

Posted Tue, Feb 2, 2 a.m.

By Joe Copeland

The University of Washington views this year's budget crisis as time to gain greater control over tuition and school finances. But will proposed solutions hurt low-income students at community colleges?

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Do you know your Christmas tree?

Posted Fri, Dec 25, 6 a.m.

By Peter Monaghan

The Northwest grows 40% of America's holiday trees, as the science tries to keep up with a declining market.

Seattle's first Pearl Harbor Day

Posted Mon, Dec 7, 2 a.m.

By Feliks Banel

How World War II came to the Northwest: blackouts, interrupted broadcasts, and, finally, internment camps.

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U.W. is getting a big demotion

Posted Tue, Apr 14, 6 a.m.

By Pete Jackson

Scarcely any state, even those with worse economies, is punishing higher education funding more than the Washington Legislature is about to do. So long, first tier!

To Kelso by way of Pullman, Moscow, and Ireland

Posted Mon, Oct 22, 5 a.m.

By Austin Jenkins

It's been a long journey to the trial of Frederick David Russell, who is charged with vehicular homicide related to an awful 2001 accident on the highway between Pullman, Wash., and Moscow, Idaho. He fled to Ireland, and now the trial is being held in Kelso, Wash.

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Is a species endangered if you can't find it?

Posted Fri, Oct 12, 5 a.m.

By Knute Berger

That's just one of the questions raised by the mystery of the great white worm of the Palouse – a lilly-scented, spitting underground enigma.

A star rises in Eastern Washington

Posted Thu, Sep 20, 7 p.m.

By O. Casey Corr

Whatever the prospects for Cougar football, the hard-charging person to watch in Pullman is Elson Floyd, the new president of Washington State University.

Standing up to the big mag on campus

Posted Mon, Aug 27, 5 a.m.

By William Echols

Several Northwest colleges, including the University of Washington, did well in the imperfect annual ranking by U.S. News and World Report, but there's a revolt brewing, and Reed College is a leading dissenter.

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UW gets a president on a discount; lawmakers think about tax breaks

Posted Tue, May 3, 12:03 p.m. 2011

by Joe Copeland

Media Roundup: Osama bin Laden aside, finances dominate the public agenda.

McKenna attacks state's cuts to higher education

Posted Sat, Apr 16, 11:32 a.m. 2011

by Joe Copeland

Rob McKenna, a likely candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination as governor, criticized both parties for Olympia's weakening support of the state's universities.

Lots of talk about the problems of cutting higher education

Posted Tue, Apr 12, 2 a.m. 2011

by Joe Copeland

But will any of the talk protect the state's college students from more Olympia cuts?

Budget action: Less than three weeks to go and plenty to worry about

Posted Wed, Apr 6, 2 a.m. 2011

by Joe Copeland

If lawmakers and Gov. Chris Gregoire are going to reach a budget agreement that lets the legislative session end on time, the House Democrats' budget is a key step.

Pinch yourself: Two Seattle football wins in one weekend!

Posted Sun, Dec 5, 5:22 p.m. 2010

by Mike Henderson

The Huskies take the Apple Cup, and the Hawks beat the Panthers. Dare we hope for both a college bowl game and an NFL playoff spot?

A few kind words for government work

Posted Thu, Jul 1, 6 a.m. 2010

by David Brewster

By providing steady work and benefits to one partner, these jobs free up the other one to invent the next big idea in the garage.

A bigger Pac-10 makes no forward progress academically

Posted Thu, Jun 17, 1:04 p.m. 2010

by Mike Henderson

When judged by those U.S. News rankings, new conference member Colorado is in the middle of the pack. Utah will scrape along, right above the conference's academic laggard Oregon State.

A state college football rivalry for the ages

Posted Sun, Nov 29, 2:20 p.m. 2009

by Mike Henderson

What? The Apple Cup? No, not quite. Look south.

Washington's higher ed priority: posh dorms

Posted Mon, Mar 31, 3 p.m. 2008

by Lisa Brunette

Officials at Washington State University announced last week that the school plans to build new dorms. On the face of it, the initiative seems long overdue: The school hasn't built dorms in 37 years. However, the $26 million dollar residence hall adds only 229 beds, at a cost of $113,537 per bed. The residence hall is part of a larger plan to upscale the dorm experience.

How we fare in the quest for academic pork

Posted Mon, Mar 24, 12:59 p.m. 2008

by David Brewster

The respected Chronicle of Higher Education has just published a new report on the scramble for academic earmarks. A surprise, considering how well the University of Washington does in federally funded research and how well placed Sen. Patty Murray is: The UW is not among the leading porkers.