Posts by Bill Lyne

Adequate funding for higher education in Washington state is like a ship on the horizon, a dream that never seems to sail any closer.  Governor Inslee has now joined the long list of public officials pointing at that ship, telling the Seattle City Club that “We’re really at risk of having our colleges erode.”  Pretty…

Update: May 2013.Florida state spending per student is now ~$2 less than Washington.

Galileo Galilei was a professor at the University of Padua in the sixteenth century.  His fundamental contributions to mathematics, physics, and astronomy have been recognized by scientists across the continents and centuries, and celebrated in the smooth stylings of Bertolt Brecht, Freddie Mercury, and the Indigo Girls.  In 1633, he was fired and placed under…