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Nothing flashy about the number 31, but the 31st season of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is special nonetheless.

During its fourth year under music director Brett Mitchell, associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, the distinguished pre-professional ensemble will take…

Quick: name an innovative firm headquartered in Canada.

Maybe you came up with BlackBerry. A decade ago, you might have thought of Corel, which owned WordPerfect. Twenty years ago, Nortel might have come to mind.

And therein lies Canada's problem. There is often one innovative…

A white-haired politician who came of age during the civil rights movement and was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War has inspired a handful of Southwest Washington millennials to try to change today’s political landscape.

Bernie Sanders has “catalyzed a movement,” said…

Todd Donovan, a professor of political science at Western Washington University, said voters seemed to take a keen interest in Washington’s primary this year, despite that it won’t have much influence on the presidential race.

He said part of that interest may be the effect of outsider…

“With Animal” by Carol Guess and Kelly Magee. A reviewer says the short story collection by the Western Washington University professors “take their readers into a world where human parents give birth to animal babies. Yet the underlying concern of ‘With Animal’ is wholly human. ...”