HOW MANY AGGIES DOES IT TAKE TO FUND HIGHER EDUCATION?
So Mike Young has gone the way of Mark Emmert, leaving our fair state to chase every college president’s dream of someday getting paid like an assistant football coach. Much speculation has ensued as to why anyone would leave a badass research institution in cosmopolitan Seattle for a land grant agricultural and mechanical school in…
Read MoreJAY INSLEE’S BUDGET SCREWS HIGHER ED STUDENTS . . .
. . .but first the good news. Breaking with a longstanding Democratic tradition of poll-driven wimpyness (including that of his own campaign), Governor Jay Inslee has served up a revenue fastball. He’s not just nibbling around the edges with another half cent on the sales tax or a penny on a can of Coke, he’s…
Read MoreEIN BESCHEIDENER VORSCHLAG
Last week, the unlikely bedfellows Representative Marcus Ricelli and Senator Michael Baumgartner previewed legislation that would give Washington State University a down payment of $2.5 million to open a medical school in Spokane. Future historians will record this as the first shot fired in the Great Medical School War of 2015, the impending tussle between the…
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