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| How Military Services Impacts Returning Veterans | More than 200,000 individuals leave military service each year and face the challenges of readjusting to civilian life. Sociologist Jay Teachman and his colleagues at Western Washington Universitystudy the employment, health and family lives of veterans of World War II, the Vietnam War and the… |
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| Western's Hodges to talk about economic trends Jan. 29 | Western Washington University's Hart Hodges will give a presentation on the economic trends of Whatcom County and the Seattle area. The breakfast buffet event runs from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 29 and will be at the Bellingham Golf & Country Club at 3729 Meridian St… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø professor to study psychological impact of typhoon in Philippines | An interesting story from Western Washington University about one of its professors: "When Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, devastated the Philippines last November, it literally tore apart communities and challenged the country's ability to… |
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| Who's paying? | Four years after the Supreme Court's controversial Citizens United rulings unleashed floods of cash into our political system by shadowy "dark money" groups vying to influence elections, Washington state's own campaign finance disclosure laws may become more transparent under… |
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| Forget to Remember | You must not remember this. Indeed, it may be key to having a healthy brain. Our gray matter evolved to forget things; otherwise we’d have the images of every face we saw on the subway rattling around our head all day long. Yet we’re building computers with the capacity to remember everything.… |
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| Border traffic into Whatcom County up 5.7 percent in 2013 | It was another big year for southbound border crossings into Whatcom County, but the traffic may start to level off if the Canadian dollar continues to weaken. Last year more than 16.2 million people crossed the Canada/U.S. border into Whatcom County, a 5.7 percent increase compared to… |
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| Sinking Canadian dollar worries some Washington State businesses | As the Canadian dollar continues to dip in value, Lower Mainland residents are more inclined to stick around rather than skip across the border. And that’s beginning to cause worry for some Washington State businesses. |
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| Decline in Bellingham Bay marine life eludes quick diagnosis | To the non-scientist, it looks obvious: The decline in marine life at the bottom of Bellingham Bay is what we would expect in a bay used as a dump for industrial waste, human sewage, garbage and polluted stormwater over many decades. But marine researchers say it's not that simple.… |
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| Damming the Skykomish River: a resurfacing battle | A new hydroelectric dam may be erected in the South Fork of the Skykomish River — one of the last free-flowing rivers in Washington. |
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| The Costs of Costco | Mayor Kelli Linville came one step closer to her goal, convincing her own City Council, at least, to request $2.5 million from Whatcom County’s Economic Development Investment (EDI) fund to help finance a large regional stormwater facility to serve a planned retail expansion in the city’s north… |