Election info online is starting to appear in addition to the candidate sites.
- Whatcom Independent - Candidate Forums - except for the one on July 12.
- Cascadia Weekly - candidate interviews. Very strange no link to this page from the Weekly home page. Maybe he wants us to pick up the paper first. Anyway, only council candidates. Maybe mayoral next week.
- Bellingham Business Journal - to post Q&A online later this week - plus this Friday's Journal will have a special pullout election section.

The Herald? The last post on their special Election page is dated June 19 - over 3 weeks ago. Expect their coverage to start next week - with just two weeks to the start of voting. We have pointed this out in earlier posts but want to note a more sinister aspect to this very late start of campaign coverage by our daily newspaper. By squeezing all coverage into a very few weeks, the Herald gains more leverage in swaying elections their way. How? By not allowing the normal development of issues via dialog between candidates, news coverage, citizen letters and forums. We get a very static presentation of candidates and the Herald endorsements and we have little else.

The Cascadia Weekly out today has some good candidate summaries. Unfortunately, Tim Johnson, in listing the forums, could not bring himself to list the Whatcom Independent forum on July 31. Maybe he forgot.