Funding cuts have to be newsworthy - Khaled Mohamed, Opinion Letter to Everett Herald

We were hoping that the Everett Herald would cover the meeting with Rep. Larry Seaquist in Everett Community College last Thursday. Rep. Larry Seaquist the Chair of the Higher Education Committee in the House of Representative in the Legislature. The meeting was about the rising cost of higher education and EvCC raising tuition fees 24 percent over the last few years. I contacted the Herald last June and told the political reporter and newstips about our meeting with Rep. Seaquist during Higher Education Stakeholder meeting at the University of Washington, Tacoma. We handed Rep. Seaquist a letter signed by over 750 EvCC students to express our concerns on the rising cost of higher education and request that the Legislature make no further cuts to Community & Technical Colleges. I told the Herald that Rep. Seaquist would be coming to EvCC to meet with students. http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20121231/OPINION02/712319991