Student leaders, state organization encourage student voter registration
ANDREA GONZALEZ, Evergreen reporter
September 29, 2020
ASWSU, Young Democrats and the Washington Student Association are encouraging student voter registration using social media and a voter engagement hub. Voting is important because it is how politicians are chosen, Young Democrats President Duncan Thomson said. There is a direct impact for residen...
County candidates debate on COVID-19 response, small business assistance
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
September 25, 2020
Candidates for the Whitman County Commission debated Thursday night about the county’s role in handling the pandemic, support of small businesses and developing long-term plans for rebuilding towns impacted by the Washington state fires. Incumbent Dean Kinzer and business owner Tom Handy answered each...
Local hospital to seek public input before expanding its district
LOREN NEGRON, Evergreen reporter
June 5, 2020
Pullman Regional Hospital has put on pause the consideration of enlarging its tax base by expanding its district boundaries. PRH Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday evening to accept the strategic planning committee’s recommendation of engaging in a public involvement process before deciding on the exp...
County candidates file for election
JAKOB THORINGTON, Evergreen reporter
May 26, 2020
A total of 49 county candidates have filed to run in the upcoming 2020 primary election on Aug. 4. There are 38 offices available in Whitman County including Congress and state representatives, state senators, state supreme court and county commissioner positions, according to a Whitman County candidate l...
Scholars discuss voting politics in a pandemic
LAUREN ELLENBECKER, Evergreen reporter
April 17, 2020
Political scientists discussed the politics of voting in a pandemic and possible voter suppression during a Thomas S. Foley Institute online forum Thursday. Cornell Clayton, WSU Foley Institute director, said recent Wisconsin elections presented both technical and political challenges posed by the ...
No stopping for ASWSU
JAKOB THORINGTON, Evergreen reporter
March 25, 2020
Running the day-to-day tasks of the ASWSU executive staff and transitioning into it can be a daunting task, even more so with a stay-at-home order from Gov. Jay Inslee. “The transition is like drinking from a fire hose,” ASWSU President Quinton Berkompas said, “and that’s on a normal year ...
WSU reminds employees rules regarding political activity
BRADLEY GAMBLE, Evergreen reporter
March 13, 2020
Election season is a time for people to reflect on their ideals and discover their alignment on the political spectrum. Although for WSU, it serves as a reminder to remain neutral. Recently, WSU’s Office of Internal Audits issued a press release reminding employees that while they are free to su...
ASWSU 2020: students chose Cohen & Doster
JAKOB THORINGTON, Evergreen reporter
March 12, 2020
Curtis Cohen and Sean Doster will be ASWSU President and Vice President for the 2020-2021 school year. “I just want to thank everybody for all their support,” Cohen said. “[This last month] has been bittersweet. It’s been a long month.” The watch party room at Phi Kappa Sigma explo...
ASWSU 2020: Waddill and Velez-Fucal reflect on loss
LUKE HUDSON, Evergreen reporter
March 12, 2020
Kylie Waddill and Donavyn Velez-Fucal lost the ASWSU election for President and Vice President for the 2020-2021 school year. “It sucks,” Waddill said. “I hope that Curtis [Cohen] and Sean [Doster] do everything that they have said.” Waddill and Velez-Fucal lost by a vote of 891 to 1...
Introducing GPSA candidates
MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen GPSA reporter
March 10, 2020
GPSA candidates for executive, college representative and senator positions shared their vision for next year at the general debate on Monday night. Candidates were allowed five minutes to share information about themselves and ideas they would bring to the senate if elected. This was foll...
ASWSU candidates: multicultural debate
JAKOB THORINGTON and LOREN NEGRON
March 6, 2020
Students from multicultural organizations on campus asked the ASWSU presidential candidates questions about leading underrepresented groups in the first presidential debate on Thursday. Kylie Waddill and Donavyn Velez-Fucal debated against Curtis Cohen and Sean Doster. Both teams answered questio...
Public schools sponsor ballot measures
KAITLYN TEJERO, Evergreen reporter
February 6, 2020
The Pullman Public School board has included a bond and two replacement levies on the upcoming ballot. Shannon Focht, Pullman Public Schools communications coordinator, said the ballots were distributed on Jan. 24 and must be submitted by Feb. 11. Focht said the first ballot item i...
Three individuals tested positive for COVID-19 today, bringing Whitman County’s total to 1,312 cases. Of the new cases, one female and two males...
