Quality of life is the focus.
It's hard to benefit from college or vocational-technical training, of course, without a solid elementary and secondary education. Thus our next two objectives are to improve basic education and preserve Washington state's performance-based education reforms. The Pacific Northwest's growing population is putting increasing pressure on the environment that draws many people here in the first place. The mind races at the news that gender bending is going on among Hanford Reach fish. So far, the researchers who discovered 80 percent of the Hanford Reach's spawning female chinook salmon likely began life as males don't have the answer for that one.