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The sure-fire pathway to economic recovery, we’ve been told for years, is to create more jobs. When unemployment is low and people are bringing home family-wage paychecks, everyone’s financial boat rises with the tide.

“Relentlessly innovative,” at the very least, is something we should try to be, says the gregarious president of Western Washington University Bruce Shepard. Innovative is what Washington’s public universities must be and what Western strives for. Try something new, fail if you must, then try…

Each fall, thousands of students from overseas apply to study at the University of Washington and other state schools. So why not charge them extra, then use that money to help solve higher education’s funding woes?

That’s the thinking behind a new Senate bill that…

After spending six years as a supermarket meat cutter, Chad Johnson is certain that demand exists for a locally owned butcher shop in downtown Bellingham, especially one that would offer a direct supply route between Whatcom County meat producers and local customers.

Western Washington University guard John Allen, a senior from Brier, was selected to the 2013 NCAA Division II Bulletin Men's Basketball All-America first team, announced Monday, April 1.

Western Washington University center Britt Harris, a senior from Marysville, received honorable mention on the 2013 NCAA Division II Bulletin Women's Basketball All-America team announced Monday, April 1.