The Bellingham Herald

• WTA wants to increase bus fare to $1
  Cash fares would increase from 75 cents to $1, and riders could no longer use transfer slips to switch buses without paying a second time, under a proposal by Whatcom Transportation Authority staff.
  Western Washington University charges each student $25 a term to pay for universal bus passes and late-night shuttle service, among other costs. Currently WTA gets between $14 and $15 of that fee for passes, totaling $561,928 per year, said Rick Nicholson, WTA's director of service development.
  The agency wants to increase WWU's contribution to $702,411 per year, which would mean WTA would get between $17.50 and $18.75 of each student's fee. The increase would require the university and transit agency to renegotiate the contract, he said.
  

Seattle Weekly

• Low-budget impact of Abraham and Hawkins
  At age 32, Braden Abraham recently became associate artistic director at Seattle Rep and is now staging a stripped-down Harold Pinter. Most of Abraham's work prior to his new job was at Seattle's small fringe venues, including Theater Schmeater, CHAC, and Washington Ensemble Theatre. He managed to win an internship at Seattle Rep just a couple of years after graduating from the Drama program at Western Washington University. He directed only one show at the Rep, but made his mark with it: the highly successful 2007 production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie.

US Golf Association Insider

• This teacher's always been a class act
  Teaching and the game of golf are intrinsically linked. Regardless of age or skill level, you are a student. And, as golfers will tell you, lessons learned on the course translate well in life. WWU alumnus Bill Wright, the first African-American to win a PGA event, has lived his life to that tenet.