Saturday afternoon - and a rally is taking place in downtown Bellingham against bombing Syria. Riley Sweeny and his Political Junkie site cover it.
Saturday afternoon - and a rally is taking place in downtown Bellingham against bombing Syria. Riley Sweeny and his Political Junkie site cover it.
Saturday, Aug 31 - 3:15 p.m.
We learn this Saturday that President Obama made the decision only last night, and almost on the spur of the moment, to seek Congressional authority to bomb Syria. Finally, we Americans - we citizens - we voters - have a modest chance to exercise democracy.
A demonstration against war with Syria is going on right now in downtown Bellingham - and Riley Sweeney has it covered on his Political Junkie website. Riley will no doubt cover this issue well.
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Saturday afternoon - and a rally is taking place in downtown Bellingham against bombing Syria. Riley Sweeny and his Political Junkie site cover it.
Gee, can we make it any clearer? Publisher opinion. So sad that we have to write this to Obama - who got our vote in 2008 because he said we should not have optional wars.
The Feds gag an Email service owner - so he cannot even tell us why he is gagged.
Liberal talking head Lawrence O’Donnell went into a bullying rant against a well qualified guest - and showed he’s just like O’Reilly.
The explosion of hate and racist rhetoric is the saddest aspect of the verdict. The evidence was complicated and the verdict difficult to make.
Edward Snowden is a very courageous patriot, in the opinion of the publisher of NWCitizen.
New York Times columnist, Paul Krugman, has a masterful short article that explains why austerity is not working.
You are not likely to escape the coming transfer of $billions from your pocket to the health insurance industry. You will get little, if anything, in return.
A comparison of U.S. and Canadian attitudes and policies for taxes and fiscal integrity. By a Canadian citizen.
If you or a friend are in foreclosure, or an attorney defending someone, then hopefully you already know about this. If not… here it is.
Wherein that local political junkie, Riley Sweeney, has written up a comprehensive analysis of 2016 U.S. presidential election.
A light and short take on the Democratic Party celebration at the VFW Post meeting hall. And a heavy bit on national politics.
Here’s your shot at fame and glory as a political pundit
Precedent is plentiful of the Feds censoring free speech and videos - but double standard is protecting anti-Islam film.
Over at the Political Junkie, Riley Sweeney has posted a long and interesting interview with our U.S. Congress Rep Rick Larsen
Wikileaks founder spoke from a safe open window to the people of the world. His words are important to the future of democracy and freedoms.
New report suggests U.S. weather stations reporting higher temperatures because NOAA has poorly managed sensors and caused false higher readings.
The recall of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker failed - failed big. Here is another 2 cents worth of opinion - from a Wisconsin conservative.
Riley at The Political Junkie attends a forum of Congressional Candidates, and a town hall meeting in Lynden
There’s no profit in searching for causes, and we know there’s no real cure. But there’s big money in the detection and treatment of breast cancer.
Bellingham Public Schools Learns Evasive Maneuvers from City Hall
12 comments, most recent 2 years agoWhy People with Mental & Drug Addiction Issues are on the Streets: A Brief History and Solution
7 comments, most recent 2 years agoWann wird man je verstehen?
11 comments, most recent 2 years agoSatpal SIdhu Responds to Lisa Papp’s article of Oct. 21
Replacing all 71 buses would cost $6,035,000. Maybe later…
17 comments, most recent 2 years agoBeing a personal reflection on the impacts of the pernicious variant coronavirus.
10 comments, most recent 2 years agoRandy Petty on the dysfunctional structure of the U.S. Senate.
Bellingham and Whatcom County are going to try.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoAfter twenty years of fits and starts, there is a time-sensitive opportunity for the city of Bellingham ...
11 comments, most recent 2 years agoLong-time Bellingham City Council member, Gene Knutson, throws his support to Russ Whidbee for the City Council At-Large position
Former At-Large Bellingham City Council member, Louise Bjornson, writes in support of Russ Whidbee, for the City Council At-Large seat.
We have an opportunity to assure affordable housing in Bellingham; let’s not squander it!
14 comments, most recent 2 years agoGinger Decker writes in support of Russ Whidbee for Bellingham City Council.
What do the Hopi, the Lummi, broadband, and the Census have in common?
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoAnd our long-term approach to climate change is…?
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoFollowing the money on the race for the At-Large Bellingham City Council position.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoJudith Akins writes about her choice for Whatcom County Council.
Is our homeless population local or from out-of-town, and at what cost to Bellingham?
20 comments, most recent 2 years agoRuss is a decades-long resident of Bellingham. He knows our city much better than most and his record proves it.
12 comments, most recent 2 years agoVoting on a karaoke song contest offers an opportunity for a clear view of Ranked Choice Voting
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoIs it boosting* from the world’s poor to get a booster in the U.S.?
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoUnder Eric Johnston, they’ve been stalling, dragging it out, and protecting big telecom.
The first iteration of public comments, separated from City Council meetings, went off in relative calm.
9 comments, most recent 2 years agoDespite ADA requirements, proposed trail has no provisions for people with disabilities.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoA summary of the Douglas Avenue right-of-way petition effort.
Learning more about the managing editor of a new daily news source in Bellingham, coming January 1.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoMayor Fleetwood spent 10 minutes verbally attacking Tip Johnson’s petition to stop illegal city street vacations.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoA simple showing
The Save the Trails Referendum goes into Pandemic Mode
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoFriday, August 6, was the monthly Art Walk in downtown Bellingham. Kit Muehlman and I were asking people to ...
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoThe Push is on!
A first person account of the author’s experience at the time of the fall of Saigon
10 comments, most recent 2 years agoNeighborhoods beware: City Hall is selling our public rights. Your neighborhood could be next.
14 comments, most recent 2 years agoThis is the Save the Trails Referendum Page
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoGuest Writer David Donohue explains Sunnyland’s experience with City Hall’s promises, code enforcement, and follow-thru.
7 comments, most recent 2 years agoBut ever so s_l_o_w_l_y
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoBellingham to get a locally owned and professional daily news publication beginning in January 2022.
7 comments, most recent 2 years agoPlaying along with YouTube is a losing game for Bellingham. It is time to break the ties that bind … and blind.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoPreserve public property rights & save the trail
14 comments, most recent 2 years agoBetween the professional service of Comcast, and the “professionals” at COB, start training Carrier pigeons.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoIt is time for Bellingham City Hall to take control by dumping YouTube for having taken down a video of a City Council meeting.
8 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe Whatcom County Council is afraid to make an appointment of a temporary District Court judge before the Primary Election. Is the “fix” in?
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoYet another eyesore bunker-like building for bunking students at market rental rates.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe city granted building permits while the Planning Department knew this was a state historical Indian village site.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoBellingham website goes dead with one person taking a few days off. So much for an administration and a system. Third world government.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoEffective, efficient and low cost, high speed broadband service continues to elude Bellingham and Whatcom County
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoBellingham continues to have its mail dropoff options changed willy-nilly.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoTime to put the kibosh on the CityView private dormitory project for the good of the neighborhood and the good of the city.
Riley and Bryna Sweeney write about the petition to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Meridian School District.
How Mayor Fleetwood and his city attorneys are violating the basic laws that our nation was founded and built upon.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoCity attorney James Erb removed from legal case against Judge Lev for conflict of interest by Superior Court judge.
6 comments, most recent 2 years agoMail collection boxes seem to be a thing of the past. Why have one postal vehicle collect from the boxes when hundreds of people can drive to the post office to mail a letter?
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoA new and local county wide technology group of Internet and broadband experts has been formed. Jon explains why and lists the members.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoMary Kay Becker writes about the Bellingham Municipal Court Controversy
Tonight the Bellingham City Council - with no agenda notice - authorized the mayor to begin process to abolish the Bellingham Municipal Court
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoWhat does a little stream matter? Spoiler alert! It’s not a joke and, if it were, it would not be a nice one.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe presiding judge of Whatcom County District Court has suddenly resigned effective July first.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoA day to remember the US service men and women who have passed away.
6 comments, most recent 2 years agoDebra Lev, Bellingham’s municipal court judge, is suing Mayor Seth Fleetwood and the city
7 comments, most recent 2 years agoCity staff report outlines “issues” with megalithic CityView complex. You have a chance to comment.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoDouglas Gustafson guest writes. Our two tiny home villages, and the possibility of a third, are in jeopardy. Do we need them?
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoDespite willing property sellers, and Fleetwood’s campaign promises, and the unanimous Greenways Committee vote …. sigh.
6 comments, most recent 2 years ago“Differential Privacy:” A statistical adjustment system that may render 2020 census population data unusable.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoAn essay on climate change, millennials’ concerns, and large corporations and governments complacently stealing our kids futures.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoBAG - the Bellingham city hall Broadband Advisory Group is stacked in favor of mega corporations and against local public Internet service.
12 comments, most recent 2 years agoNew state legislation will cause cascade of changes to Bellingham’s codes
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoCityView, the project that will not die, will soon be subject to scrutiny during an extraordinary meeting of the Planning Commission.
2 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe more contagious and possibly more deadly B.1.1.7 and P.1 coronavirus strains appear to be leaking down into Whatcom County from British Columbia.
10 comments, most recent 2 years agoDaniel Kirkpatrick writes Mayor Fleetwood requesting he veto the council vacation of a street with a walking trail.
9 comments, most recent 2 years agoUgly and expensive. That is what we have brought to the Waterfront.
10 comments, most recent 2 years agoSB 5188 to establish a Washington state Financial Cooperative is in an uncertain state in the legislature
Broken promises, bad administration, and still NO access to our publicly-owned resources
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoWashington moves ever closer to public banking for the good of its citizens and the fiscal health of the state.
8 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe advantage of an “advisory” group, (as in Broadband Advisory Group,) is that you don’t have to listen to them.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoDoug Gustafson offers a point/counterpoint account of opposing strategies for tiny homes
27 comments, most recent 2 years agoFourteen February cases of the B.1.1.7 variant coronavirus strain suggest that it is beginning to surge in the county.
10 comments, most recent 3 years agoAfter clearing the Senate, Washington’s bill to create a public banking cooperative advances to the Democratically controlled House.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoRiley shares some thoughts, concerns, and observations on the uncommon phenomenon of mask-wearing during this pandemic.
7 comments, most recent 3 years agoAtul Deshmane guest writes and provides us with a resume of the internet infrastructure issues now being discussed in Bellingham
7 comments, most recent 3 years agoPart of a series of articles on the progress of a public banking cooperative in Washington.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoWith a recent dispute between the newspaper’s reporters and management over, the real work can begin.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoGarrett O’Brien guest writes about how Bellingham can learn from successful programs for the homeless elsewhere and would do well to abandon ineffectual approaches.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoCity council and planning commission meetings were poor arrangements to begin with, and with Zoom it is very much worse.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoIrene Morgan writes a public letter to Governor Inslee about a new director of prisons
A substitute bill for the original SB 5188 was accepted and moved to the Ways and Means Committee for further consideration.
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoCurrent legislation, moving forward in Olympia, would permit localities to adopt ranked-choice voting as an upgrade to their currently mandated top-two system.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoThe monumental, pre-COVID levels of cruise ships and world tourism were not sustainable.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoRay Kamada guest writes on how to have your cake and eat it too.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe city has instituted unnecessary restrictions on the Broadband Advisory Group’s discussion and outside input.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoBrian Martel on the issue of Internet broadband service to our homes and pending bills in Olympia.
The Whatcom Human Rights Task Force has sent an open letter to the Community regarding the sweep of Camp 210.
Marii Herlinger writes on this past Thursday’s clearing of the homeless camp by city hall.
For the first time in a decade a hearing on a public banking bill found more supporters than detractors.
Bellingham started clearing 24 hours earlier than announced days ago. Antifa has showed up in numbers to provoke. Heavy police presence
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoRegulatory standards in SB-5511 offer nothing but give the appearance of doing something.
New Roberts Bank container-ship terminal proposed by the Port of Vancouver would generate additional vessel traffic that will impact endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoMayor Fleetwood and outgoing council members could not handle the truth at last night’s Bellingham City Council meeting. Homeless people and their advocates spoke truth to power.
25 comments, most recent 3 years agoTip Johnson makes the case that the City’s cozy relations with developers and its neighborhoods-be-damned attitude is costing us all.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoA public bank in Washington is sorely needed for infrastructure projects and more especially with COVID-19 and the resultant severe economic downturn.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoSatpal Sidhu, our Whatcom County Executive, writes us a statement in response to attack on Capitol
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoGene Knutson today announced he will not run for reelection this year and is retiring from the Bellingham City Council.
8 comments, most recent 2 years agoWhile McClatchy appears ready to accept unionization among the Herald’s content creators, it would be on their terms.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoMark Ashworth writes about Trump and our current national situation.
There are no excuses remaining.
13 comments, most recent 3 years agoTwo photos of the same door, one taken about 2 p.m., the other six hours later at about 8 p.m., on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
10 comments, most recent 3 years agoPublic Works Director, Eric Johnston and Council Member Michael Lilliquist hand-picked their “perfect members” to determine our internet future.
14 comments, most recent 3 years agoGarrett O’Brien guest writes how a shift in housing policies is needed to avoid an escalation of our housing crisis.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoFrozen resistance in some quarters against public banking may find a thaw in 2021.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoSomething is amiss regarding the BNSF oil-train wreck in Custer on Dec 22, 2020. Why, after a week, are there no answers and a cause?
11 comments, most recent 3 years agoWWU, Western Washington University has a “Culture of Fear”. No, NW Citizen is not saying that - the Seattle Times is.
Even as our military veterans are dying at twice the rate of the general population, plans are being made to provide vaccinations through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
After a takeover by a hedge fund with a history of decimating newspapers, The Bellingham Herald’s news staff is taking a stand.
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoCOVID changed everything; let’s make policing better for everyone.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoCouncilman Lilliquist tries to rewrite history in Bellingham’s war over internet fiber.
A conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects appear to line up. A great conjunction is when that happens with Jupiter and Saturn.
Olivia Hobson gives us a reprise of the last year under COVID-19 from the point of view of a WWU student.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoWhatcom county - and Benton County - did better than expected in terms of the Covid-19 Post Thanksgiving surge
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoComcast inflicts $3/mo rate hike, data caps, and overage fees
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoCurrent flux in the composition of the Planning Commission means the group is overloaded with development-oriented members.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoDaniel Kirkpatrick guest writes how he, with encouragement in 1994 from the city of Bellingham, organized dozens of Happy Valley residents to build a trail on a city right of way.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoProposed Elimination of the Douglas Avenue Trail
10 comments, most recent 3 years agoA “clinical trials geek” speaks up
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoHow Bellingham Schools fail the poor.
Doug Gustafson guest writes, explaining that Bellingham’s homeless have no place to go. They need shelter now.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoRepublicans who are silent during this disaster of a transition should be held to account in the next elections: county, state, and national. Here’s one example of their hypocrisy.
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoStay home for the holidays in 2020 so that you and yours will be around for the holidays in 2021
Chuck Robinson provides his knowledgeable perspective on Christmas and Holiday shopping. We asked Chuck, who is now retired, to write this for all of us.
In the three Whatcom County school districts carried by Trump-Pence the covid-19 infection rate is 1.4 times higher than found in the 4 districts carried by Biden-Harris.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoState Senator Doug Ericksen parrots baseless Republican Party claims about non-existent voter fraud in the 2020 presidential elections.
8 comments, most recent 3 years agoAs is the case, nationwide, it appears that Trump assisted Democrats in carrying the 2020 presidential and gubernatorial elections in Washington
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe meaning of the original Armistice Day has been turned on its head. We lose a yearly history lesson as a result.
13 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe little park district commission wants to increase taxes in an effort to prolong their fiefdom.
13 comments, most recent 3 years agoFive years ago CenturyLink wanted their TV franchise to be in Bellingham in a big way. They failed and now want to pull out.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoTrump advocated behaviors that placed his followers at higher risk to being sickened and even dying from covid-19. Did a reduction in republican voters aid in the election of Joe Biden?
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoVeterans appear to be paying a price for COVID-19 at double the rate of the general population.
Diana Bradrick, our elected Whatcom County Auditor, leaves two ballot drop boxes in storage rather than install them in Bellingham - where they are needed.
8 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe novel coronavirus also attacks our need for community, which is the antidote to the epidemic of toxic individualism that has begun afflicting much of middle America.
6 comments, most recent 3 years agoIs it 219 days? Five years? It’s time to move forward on the Broadband Advisory Group. Now!
Six applicants for Bellingham’s Broadband Advisory Group are examined by Jon for their conflicts of interest with their business ties to the broadband industry.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoProposition 2020-14 allows us to support pedestrians and bicyclists by continuing the sales tax of a mere two cents per $10.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoJon explains why the Starlink satellite Internet service will not be so great and why fiber is still best for reliability, speed, cost, safety and the environment. Really.
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoSome candidates and issues can be a bit obtuse as we look at the campaign literature. These recommendations are for those with progressive, liberal, or moderate values and perspectives.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoBellingham is foot-dragging and Whatcom County gives nearly $1 million to “Big Telecom.”
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoOnly four US counties remain covid free, each of them rural. We discuss how the pandemic reached rural, isolated counties.
15 comments, most recent 3 years agoWinter quarter at WWU will look much the same as the fall quarter with mostly online classes.
Satpal Sidhu supports Ferndale School Levy
Daniel Kirkpatrick has a letter to the editor endorsing Christine Grant for Public Utility District Commissioner.
The novel coronavirus infects the US president and he responds, after a weekend visit to Walter Reed Military Hospital, with wild mood swings and reckless policy pronouncements.
Changing or eliminating the definition of “family” in our zoning codes is fraught with difficulties and likely inevitable unintended(?)consequences.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoSchools especially are losing out because of local government neglect of broadband access. And it isn’t getting better.
Let’s stop calling the president “our Commander in Chief.”
10 comments, most recent 3 years agoJC Mansfield explains how Bellingham and our police have chosen to deal with our homeless residents in unproductive, criminalizing, uncaring, and unconstitutional ways.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoCity hall is trying to keep planning commissioners on the job as vacancies mount in a game of musical chairs.
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoMike Pellicciotti is the one to replace the current, Trump-loving incumbent Washington State Treasurer.
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoWhy the Trump “administration” is responsible for at least half the 200,000+ US coronavirus deaths.
11 comments, most recent 3 years agoBellingham police are between a rock and a hard place. Resolution of issues will not be easy or pleasant given the history of policing.
6 comments, most recent 3 years ago4th Update posted. We will provide short updates to the article “Cougar Trapping … Maybe,” to keep you informed of the cougar’s status.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoAs of January 2021 only one planning commissioner will have served more than a year. Experience will be woefully lacking
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoAn effort to trap a cougar that has been hanging around the southside too long is in place.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoMarkis Dee guest writes as the County Council appointed Homeless Advocate for Whatcom County. This is a first person account of his experiences and recommendations.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoA Public Works document on Bellingham’s fiber optic network leaves much to be desired.
Neither innocence nor guilt will add much to our understanding of the deaths of these two men.
7 comments, most recent 3 years agoReal progress on broadband and fiber optics is not what is being sold to the public by the city.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoNot local, but we would be remiss to not speak out.
About two-thirds of all returning students will live in campus residence halls, but that does not mean they will be confined to campus.
12 comments, most recent 3 years agoClose questioning of the auditor’s office reveals the truth. Now the issue becomes, what will county leaders do with these two extra ballot drop boxes?
6 comments, most recent 3 years agoVoters prefer drop boxes to ensure their ballots are counted, yet our county auditor thinks that is not true. The numbers are against her.
8 comments, most recent 3 years agoStudents returning for the fall semester at WWU present the greatest threat to local residents during this pandemic.
An undemocratic process awaits a workgroup on broadband.
Dr. Bill Lyne guest writes how the curtain has been pulled back on the vulnerability of US higher education.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoIn a specific and obviously sternly written request for information, the city outlined the deficiencies in the CityView project proposal.
Enoch J. Ledet guest writes, advocating for a better method of cleaning Lake Whatcom of the phosphorus. The phosphorus that our drinking water must not contain.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoIrene Morgan guest writes. She is turning 80 this week and reflects on her many years of helping victims of our so called justice system.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoWA State Department of Commerce Internet Access Test is a Scam to Protect Big Telecom
7 comments, most recent 3 years agoWhite guilt in tow, the author treks 260 miles from Bellingham to Portland to see what all the fuss is about.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoSee link to map of Ballot Drop Boxes. It is too late now to mail your ballot. Postal Service is struggling. Drop your ballot in a Drop Box.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoVeterans honor veterans in this time of national mourning.
Only very limited number of experiential courses will be taught on campus.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoMoving to the governor’s Phase 3 reopening will very likely never happen. What we have is what we get, except for going back to Phase 1.
29 comments, most recent 3 years agoWhatcom Human Rights Task Force has sent an open letter to Mayor Fleetwood and Executive Sidhu expressing their concerns about the planned four Listening Sessions.
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoRelative to the state’s other 38 counties, Whatcom is doing reasonably well in terms of COVID-19 deaths
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoGuest writer, Dianne Foster, a self-described “old radical hippie, yearning for a better world,” shares her election choices and reasoning.
14 comments, most recent 3 years agoEven a partial opening of the WWU campus will threaten or reverse our progress in fighting the pandemic. Play with fire, get burned.
11 comments, most recent 3 years agoThe 30 Republican-leaning states now lead in total COVID-19 cases
4 comments, most recent 3 years agoNo kidding, this mature cougar was casually prowling backyards inside the Bellingham city limits this past weekend.
6 comments, most recent 3 years agoSo far, so good for San Juan County. The July 4th holiday visitors have not led to either a “Yellow” or “Red” alert for covid-19 cases among its residents
A writer has a conversation with an article about police unions.
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoBringing thousands of students back to campus in the fall is a recipe for a disastrous spread of COVID-19. Restart in the fall of 2021.
23 comments, most recent 3 years agoAlong with potential “super-spreader” venues, rates of interaction, and other factors, “being Republican” also could represent a COVID-19 risk factor.
6 comments, most recent 3 years agoWith this year’s crop about to fly the coop, it’s time to contact Mayor Fleetwood to seal the deal and create a permanent, protected wildlife reserve — the first of its kind in Bellingham.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoGuess what? Nobody has a corner on the use or abuse of the U.S. flag.
15 comments, most recent 3 years agoAuthors find that their method produces estimates of unconfirmed cases consistent with an announcement by the CDC that there are ten times more cases than reported.
Consumer fireworks are prohibited in Bellingham but already the sounds of fireworks are noticeable as the 4th of July nears.
2 comments, most recent 3 years agoState St roundabout will earn its keep with all the new neighbors.
3 comments, most recent 3 years agoWhere in Washington are the COVID-19 case increases higher? Republican-leaning counties or Democratic leaning counties?
12 comments, most recent 3 years agoDeep cuts are likely coming to our state universities. The financial storm has arrived.
6 comments, most recent 3 years agoAre politics driving new COVID-19 infections as Whatcom and Skagit counties reopen from the shutdown?
5 comments, most recent 3 years agoJohn and Janet Crews guest write how the Public Market building is in the middle of small downtown businesses. The mayor, after a secret process, now rushes this issue to the council on Tuesday.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoHong Kong freedom protestors are against Black Lives Matters protestors?? Our USA corporate media have not told us that. Ho See-wing links us to more news sources.
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