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Ah, to have known then what we know now.  Ten years ago, if the presidents of Washington’s four-year universities had each taken a million dollars out of their budgets and gone to Vegas, they could have made some serious coin.  They could have gone to a casino with this bet: In the next ten years,…

In July Dr. Jill Biden, a part-time, non-tenure track community college instructor, gave a speech to the UNESCO Higher Education conference extolling community colleges as one of America’s “best-kept secrets” and the “way of the future” for higher education in developing countries.  A week later the World Bank, hewing closely to their mission to keep…

In the P. T. Barnum department, you gotta love a guy who has made a career of selling himself as a man of the people through the state initiative process.  That is, until you remember that Tim Eyman is doing more than selling tickets to see the reptile man and the bearded lady, he’s peddling…