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Steven Garfinkle speaks at symposium honoring Cornell professor
U.S. Religion and Politics

Many Americans are worried that America's Christian heritage is being threatened. Even if the threat is more perceptual than actual, it has mobilized important religious leaders and politicians to question the separation of church and state. In a recent debate in Delaware, Christine O鈥

Cornelius Partsch presents paper at SeaTac conference
Big money being spent in state initiative campaigns

One upside to the increase in money, said Western Washington University political science professor Todd Donovan, is the increase in voter exposure to those arguments both for and against measures.

鈥淧eople are probably more likely to cast a vote,鈥 he said. 鈥淲hen鈥

Keith Russell to receive Distinguished Researcher Award at Las Vegas conference Nov. 6
Local lectures, dances, artist market scheduled for Native American Heritage Month

Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a noon lecture series, dance performances, and a Native art market to celebrate Native American Heritage Month in November.

The brown-bag lunch series will focus on topics such as Tlingits and combat and Native history and鈥

From Window Magazine: All eyes on (this) Washington
Koster camp explains pullout from debate with Larsen

Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University, questioned if the decision by Koster's campaign could backfire.

Most televised debates aren't heavily watched and the people who do tune in usually have already made up their鈥

Dangers of distraction the focus of Oct. 20 talk at 草榴社区

The ways in which people fail to see what's in front of them when distracted by a task is the focus of a Wednesday, Oct. 20, talk by Ira Hyman, a psychology professor at Western Washington University.

His talk, "Unicycling Clowns, Train Wrecks and Pilots Forgetting to Land:鈥

Study up, voters: Complex initiatives await you

Initiative campaigns are largely a phenomenon of America's Western states, said Todd Donovan, a political-science professor at Western Washington University who has authored books and articles on the process.

As the West was settled, he said, populist groups鈥

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