In King County, we’re facing major cuts in transit unless funding can be found. Sums up Seattlepi.com: “Without extra funds, a total of 600,000 hours of transit service would be eliminated over the next two years. This is about 17 percent of Metro’s entire system, but it would affect up to 80 percent of bus riders.” Continue reading After Carmageddon, The Buspocalypse
However, while endeavors like The Center for Performance Studies point to the entrepreneurship and resilience of our administration and faculty, the hard truth remains that the concept of an affordable, accessible and high quality university education here in Washington is in a precarious state. Quality in higher education has always centered on a single idea: a valued professoriat in regular contact with students. Continue reading Op-Ed: At the University of Washington, the Other Shoe Drops
The great cry of outrage at the University of Washington’s acceptance of higher-paying out-of-state students over in-state applicants gets an economic reality check: After years of declining public support, the UW has been effectively transitioning toward becoming a prestigious private school that seeks the best students nationally and internationally. It will be a school, you suspect, that Tim Eyman would not get into. But where, then, will state students go? Continue reading Bow Down to the University of Washington’s Budget Woes
At the time, Shoenfeld said, “the reason these people are there is we really can’t place them in the community at large. Of those eleven people, two have committed murder–one murdered a Seattle police officer–three are sex offenders, and four have committed arson. Trying to place these people in the community? Where are we going to find a place that’s going to be willing to take them?” Continue reading After PALS: Mentally Ill with History of Arson, Murder & Sex Offenses Return to King County
