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12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Mariners shut down by ... · 0 replies · +2 points

The final score was actually 4-2. The first paragraph of the story is in error when it reports 4-1.

12 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Video shows waterfall ... · 0 replies · +6 points

That is an epic video. I'm so impressed by the calm and confidence and bravery of the SAR volunteers. Incredible job, gentlemen.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Suspected killer\'s hu... · 2 replies · +99 points

"But Holly's only done like three years altogether,"

She's 24 and she's done three years. A regular soccer mom.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Samuel L. Jackson read... · 0 replies · +3 points

Download it here: http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00551W570

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Marie Callender\'s at ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Shutting the place down mid-meal? That's bizarre!

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Man charged with break... · 0 replies · +31 points

Sickening. I hope that Mr. Amant receives similar treatment at the hands of the general population.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Man in hospital after ... · 0 replies · +34 points

Rick: I came to post exactly that. A real man indeed.

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Budget cuts means fewe... · 1 reply · +6 points

>> Olympia needs to get their act together. This is a mess.

On this, you and I can agree!!!

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Budget cuts means fewe... · 3 replies · +7 points

Right. And in response to massive cuts in the amount of state funding coming to the UW, the University has to turn to sources other than our taxes to subsidize tuition for in-state residents. One source is out-of-state tuition dollars; the UW makes a large profit on out-of-state students and that profit is used to subsidize in-state students.

If people don't like increased taxes, and they don't like out-of-state students to cover the budget shortfall, they need to either find another source of funding for the university, or consider shutting it down. In my opinion the latter would be a mistake, but at least it would be a logically consistent position for someone to hold. Complaining about you tax dollars being wasted on out of state students is utter nonsense, given that not a single tax dollar goes to these students and rather their tuition subsidizes our in-state students.

As for funding a public university? It does bring an annual 1 billion in federal revenue into Washington state. That creates a lot of jobs....

13 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Budget cuts means fewe... · 5 replies · +5 points

You've got this backwards.

From the article: "However, if the school didn't admit more nonresident students, he said, it would have to cut the number of in-state students even further. Nonresident students subsidize resident students, Ballinger added."

Your tax dollars aren't subsidizing out-of-state and foreign students. Rather, out-of-state and foreign students are subsidizing in-state tuition and this is becoming increasingly necessary after many years of severe cutbacks in state funding to the UW.

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