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| Canadian Road Trippers Boycotting U.S. Could Mean A $4 Billion Economic Loss | Given the boycott, such an increase would be “almost impossible,” Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, told Forbes. |
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| Border-dwelling Americans worry about the fallout from a U.S.-Canada trade war | The trade dispute will have far-reaching spillover effects, from price increases and paperwork backlogs to longer wait times at the U.S.-Canada border for both people and products, said Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington… |
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| WA seeing fewer Canadians after Trump, tariffs and talk of ‘51st state’ | And while it’s impossible to blame that plunge entirely on politics, the timing is telling, says Laurie Trautman, director of WWU's Border Policy Research Institute. |
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| Trump’s tariff threats stress WA’s Point Roberts | Laurie Trautman, director at the Border Policy Research Institute with Western Washington University, said it is difficult to tell what impacts the tariffs could have on border towns like Point Roberts because things have not been normal since COVID. |
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| What a trade war with Canada could mean for Washington state | "The cost of goods will go up if tariffs are enacted. There is no doubt," said Dr. Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. She says the economic impacts of the border battle would likely… |
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| The U.S. is installing more rock barriers to target illegal border crossings. Will they work? | "My perspective is that much of what we see happening along the physical barrier is a little bit of political theatre," said Laurie Trautman, director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University. |
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| A new book looks at how border closures divided lives during COVID | It’s been five years since Covid 19 began spreading around the world from its origin in Wuhan, China. In that emergent time of the pandemic, there was widespread concern about clusters of the virus, in Italy, then Iran, then an outbreak at a nursing home in the Pacific Northwest. By… |
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| OECD to host WWU’s Laurie Trautman for opening remarks at Paris forum | |||
| A booming B.C. city known for its cultures, food — and an international crisis | Laurie Trautman, director of Western Washington University’s Border Policy Research Institute, describes it as “border blindness.” Despite robust commerce between Whatcom County and Lower B.C., “Our understanding stops at the border,” she says. The masses of participants at the… |
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| Did COVID doom isolated WA town? State and federal leaders asked to help save it | While McClatchy was in Point Roberts, researchers from the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University were there to interview residents about all impacts of the border closures. Dr. Laurie Trautman is the director of the program… |
