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Local author William Dietrich will sign copies of his latest book, “The Murder of Adam and Eve,” from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Burlington Costco, 1725 South Burlington Boulevard, Burlington.

A young Tanzanian girl sits in a concrete classroom crammed full of blue steel desks. In her hands is a clarinet, the sun reflects off its shiny keys as she shifts her hands to form an F note. The sound of music fills the room.
Although the African Blackwood, known as Mpingo, used to craft…

Have we reached Dr. King’s goals? After all, we have an African-American President and across the country, women and members of minorities are governors, senators, representatives, mayors, and chief executive officers of major corporations. In his last speech, delivered in Memphis, the day…

Most professors’ workloads don’t look like they did even 10 years ago, but institutions still largely evaluate faculty members by the age-old teaching-scholarship-service model. So what would happen if faculty members were assessed for the work they actually did, rather than by a system that…

The Canadian dollar tumbled on Wednesday, Jan. 21, and that could mean fewer cross-border shoppers in Whatcom County.

In what many investors and economists consider a surprise move, the Bank of Canada lowered the benchmark interest rate target from 1 percent to 0.…