As UW Provost Phyllis Wise joins Nike's corporate board, a campus advisory committee warns the apparel company it has violated the university's code of conduct.
The recent spate of police executions triggers a thought about the third rail of Northwest politics: gun control. What of those plans to ban, or allow, firearms in public parks?
"Don't panic" over swine flu, says the governor, producing just that reaction in our author. On the other hand, avoiding social contact should come easily to shy Northwest folks.