Posted mid January at bottom of home page

About 240 citizens check NwCitizen each day and regular readers check about once a week. Over 4,000 unique - different - citizens check this site every month. Examining where you come from reveals 1/3 of you are from government offices - meaning bureaucrats, elected representatives and officials visiting during business hours. My my. Local, state and federal. While I have known this for several years, I thought it time to tell you.

To regular citizens: If it is posted here, your government knows about it. They want to keep track of what you know about them. And they are concerned about my ability to help create public issues. In casual conversations with many of them over the years they have told me so. I never post the name or any specific information about anyone who provides me with information. Except with their permission. I protect my sources and in 20 years of activism none have ever been discovered. The Port of Bellingham fired three employees they thought were my inside sources during two years in the 90s but missed my two sources.

For this website to be effective, let government bureaucrats know you read it. Let them know you are concerned about the issues reported here. If they tell you this site is unreliable, ask them for an example. And let me know of the example. I make very sure of my facts and am able to help create public issues because my postings prove in the end to be correct.

Our governments are supposed to serve us. City, county, state and federal. We need to know what they are doing and why. We need to know of projects they are working on now that they plan to announce later when all is ready and too late for us to have meaningful input. Public hearings are charades with the process rigged. This secrecy is the main reason our taxes are so high - and so poorly spent.

This website is doing what it can to correct this. Please do what you can to help make our government processes open to citizens. The results will affect you very personally - in your home, your neighborhood, your freedoms and your pocketbook. -jan2004