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Petite with brown hair and big round eyes, Katie Corcoran looks like she could easily be an undergraduate student at the University of Tennessee. So, when she says she is 31 and has had two previous careers before pursuing her doctorate, it’s startling.

But it…

The City of St. Helens has a new city administrator at the helm. John Walsh, replacing former city administrator Chad Olsen, who left in January after accepting the city manager position in Carlton, Ore., officially joined the city staff on July 30.
Walsh comes to St. Helens from…

As we march into 2012, let's pause to remember some of the people who contributed to public life in Whatcom County, and who died the past year.

Far too often in academia, the faculty at colleges and universities overlook the central function amongst their professional activities: the education and development of their students. When I look back at my teaching career as a professor of geography at Western Washington University, what…

As a professor of geography, Michael Medler knows to ask "Why here?"
Combine that with his academic interest in fire, and Medler has developed an intriguing idea - what he calls a "speculation" - about why early ancestors of humans developed where they did.
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