The Walla Walla police department has seen some big changes over the last few months, chief among them a newly constructed station and a newly hired chief of police.
Walla Walla's Violence Prevention Coalition hosted their second annual conference at Whitman on Tuesday, March 27. The conference included a variety of workshops presented by community experts which addressed...
In late April, Whitman students will teach fourth and eighth graders about climate change in the fourth year of Cool the Schools, a program that gives Whitman students the opportunity to teach local elementary school students more about climate change.
A group of around twenty Walla Walla democrats gathered in the First Congregational Church tonight, March 6, to meet with John Culton, the Eastern Washington Director for U.S. Senator Patty Murray.
When the new facility for the SOS Medical Clinic opens, it will provide a much-needed expansion of uninsured health care services in Walla Walla. The larger facility, with a new adjacent dental clinic, is tentatively scheduled to open in early to mid summer of this year.
Voters passed the Walla Walla School District Replacement Levy Tuesday, February 14, with 63.88 percent voting in favor. Total turnout was 8757, which represents 46.2 percent of registered voters in Walla...
Walla Walla has emergency shelters for women, men and families who find themselves without a place to stay the night. But there is nowhere for homeless youth to go.
With an election coming up, Walla Walla has been blanketed by campaign signs urging residents to “Vote YES for Kids". On February 14, 2012, voters will decide whether to replace the current school levy, which expires at the end of 2012, for another four years.
On Nov. 8, 2011, thousands of Walla Walla County voters filed into the elections building to fill out their voting ballots. According to the Walla Walla County website, approximately 53 percent of the...
Community-Based Research as a Democratic Practice, commonly known as State of the State, is a politics class with a focus on community involvement. Recently, the class attended a prominent conference in Seattle, Wash., where it learned from and discussed immigration issues with community leaders in Washington State and researchers from across the nation and around the world.
Whitman got a taste of one of America's more provocative political flavors on Friday, Sep. 16, 2011 when members of the LaRouche movement, a political action committee known for its extremism, paid the campus a visit. The two activists spent several hours on the corner of Boyer Avenue and Park Street, exchanging passionate words with a crowd of students drawn by the LaRouche posters that depict President Barack Obama with a Hitler mustache photoshopped onto his face.
