The Heralds editorial board has a long history of urging cooperation among local governments and lauding the benefits of presenting a united front.
Soggy Snohomish County offers a cautionary tale on choosing divisiveness instead. Infighting over whether to build a University of Washington branch campus in Everett or Marysville appears to have dragged on so long that the point has become moot at least for the foreseeable future.
The January edition of UW Newslinks, an alumni association newsletter, reports:
Disagreements among Snohomish County lawmakers over where to build a new UW campus have kept the plan from moving forward. The state Higher Education Coordinating Board was expected to announce a location in early December, but legislators failed to settle on either of two favored sites near Marysville or in downtown Everett. Now, with budget cutbacks affecting all areas of the UW, some fear that the window of opportunity to approve startup money for the new campus may have closed.
Last month, an editorial in the Seattle Times pointed out that Gov. Christine Gregoire had put $1 million in the budget to start classes at a temporary location. Her only prerequisite final, local agreement on a site never happened.
Ouch.
Expect a lot of talk around the Tri-Cities about unity in 2009. In tough economic times, pulling together will be more important than ever.
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CBC students can get free transit bus passes
CBC students can get free transit bus passes
Ben Franklin Transit and Columbia Basin College have teamed up to provide bus passes for all students and staff.
The goal is to increase ridership and decrease the number of single occupancy vehicles parking on campus.
Columbia Basin College students can receive a special sticker on their student ID that serves as a bus pass. Stickers are available at the cashier's desk in the HUB at the college's Pasco campus.
HomeLink group meet to discuss curriculum
HomeLink group meet to discuss curriculum
Three Rivers HomeLink is having an ice cream social to discuss the K-12 Virtual Link curriculum for homeschoolers.
The social is from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday at the HomeLink campus, 517 Jadwin Ave. in Richland.
For more information, contact Eric Sobotta at 509-943-7340.
See behind the numbers at WSU Tri-Cities
See behind the numbers at WSU Tri-Cities
By Brad Fisher and Mike Kluse, Special to the Tri-City Herald
Washington State University announced last week that enrollment at the Tri-Cities campus remained flat this year, but these numbers do not tell the full story of WSU Tri-Cities and the many things we have to celebrate about our local campus.
WSU Tri-Cities has gone through significant growth and change over the past several years and has fostered closer ties to its alumni, the community, region and state.
See behind the numbers at WSU Tri-Cities
See behind the numbers at WSU Tri-Cities
Washington State University announced last week that enrollment at the Tri-Cities campus remained flat this year, but these numbers do not tell the full story of WSU Tri-Cities and the many things we have to celebrate about our local campus.
WSU Tri-Cities has gone through significant growth and change over the past several years and has fostered closer ties to its alumni, the community, region and state.
WSU Tri-Cities continues to be the most diverse campus in the WSU system. This fall, nearly 23 percent of the overall enrollment is made up of students of color, with the majority being Latino.
Data center plans to build campus in Washington
Data center plans to build campus in Washington
QUINCY -- A California company that develops data centers is buying 63 acres of land for a campus in rural potato country in Washington.
Vantage Data Centers marks the latest high-tech company to take advantage of central Washington's low-cost hydropower from Columbia River dams to build data centers. Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Dell Inc. and Sabey Corp. have all either built data centers or purchased land for construction in the area.
Vantage said in a statement Tuesday that it already has signed a lease with a Fortune 50 leading manufacturing and technology company to be the first customer at the new Washington campus. The company says it selected Quincy because of the area's low-cost and low-carbon hydropower.
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