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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø professor's family donates treasured reminder of 1963 church bombing | Rand Jimerson's father picked up some pieces of stained-glass window from the dynamited church. The date was Sept. 15, 1963. The place was Birmingham, Ala. Jimerson's father, Norman J. "Jim" Jimerson, a white Baptist minister, had moved his family to Birmingham two… |
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| Initiative 522: Familiar groups lead fight on GMO labeling | Monsanto and Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, the largest donors so far in Washington’s upcoming ballot contest over labeling genetically engineered foods, know this fight well. |
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| State actuary says Wash pensions in good shape – with some real risks in view | State Actuary Matt Smith’s latest report on the financial health of Washington’s public-employee pensions says the outlook is for continued improvement despite a financial dip over the past few years. But Smith still thinks the state needs to ratchet down its investment return assumptions to 7.5… |
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| After breakfast, Shepard delivers annual address | |||
| Northwest communities, including Sudden Valley, prepare for risk of wildfires | Wildfires have been big news this summer, from the massive Rim Fire by Yosemite National Park to the tragic Yarnell Hill Fire north of Phoenix that killed 19 firefighters. Western Washington has been spared major fires, but don't count on that lasting forever. While big fires are… |
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| Two-year initiative looks at disaster preparation | When the next big earthquake rocks King County, emergency responders have a plan. The first week or two is all mapped out. After that? It’s a mystery. |
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| Opening Convocation to kick off school year Sept. 18 | |||
| New EWU contract eases pay inequities | When students come back to school at Eastern Washington University later this month, they may be taught by a very happy professor who just got a big raise. The regional university isn’t celebrating a financial windfall. The new money comes from a creative new faculty contract that focuses… |
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| Piece of 16th Street Baptist Church being donated to Smithsonian | Randall Jimerson, an archivist and history professor at Western Washington University who lives in Bellingham, was 14 at the time of the bombing. The family, he says, was inspired to donate after hearing President Obama talk at the museum groundbreaking about how it would house artifacts that… |
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| Employee bus passes now on sale |