Candidate Filings - Wed Update + Fri final
Finale update 10 pm Friday - Some news worthy filings - well, all are newsworthy - and some final pieces falling into place.
Finale update 10 pm Friday - Some news worthy filings - well, all are newsworthy - and some final pieces falling into place.
Tony Larson may be the surprise candidate filing for office this week. A brief rundown on some of the high profile campaigns and personalities.
4 comments, most recent 4 years agoHousing equity is thrown to the wind. Vacation rentals for tourists will remove rental housing for Bellingham residents.
6 comments, most recent 4 years agoTrees are not expendable like weeds. We should not treat them as such.
An interesting city- and state-oriented strategy to solve the national corruption crisis.
A net gain of 264 on-campus dormitory beds two years from now will do virtually nothing to take the pressure off Bellingham’s rental market.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoBellingham’s Only Great Blue Heron colony Faces Human Threats - Again. Who Wants to Help?
6 comments, most recent 4 years agoVarious activities on Samish Hill suggest the future for a large area of land zoned single-family.
4 comments, most recent 5 years agoCommercial Shellfish farmers in Willapa Bay and elsewhere in the Salish Sea permitted by our “green” Governor to spray herbicides and turn healthy eelgrass beds into deserts.
1 comment, most recent 4 years agoMNAC should be restored by the next mayor to its role in the planning process, the review of the Comprehensive Plan, and neighborhood plans.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoCanada continues to push forward on its Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion despit overwhelming opposition and damning evidence — as well as serious economic headwinds — against it.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe Bells baseball team again chooses fireworks over the welfare of pets, vets, the psychologically fragile, and wildlife.
1 comment, most recent 4 years agoWe need immediate action to save the canaries in our coal mine, the Southern Resident Orca and Salmon. Take down obsolete salmon-blocking dams before it’s too late.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoAnderson would replace Terry Bornemann who retires from city council at the end of 2019
4 comments, most recent 5 years agoWhy do we let our grocery stores vet charities and direct our donations?
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoThere is a stealth invasion of stick-built apartment complexes in Bellingham. Few have any redeeming architectural merit.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoBellingham again wastes its time with a survey in which the respondents self-select, essentially negating the results.
4 comments, most recent 5 years agoPublic banking is moving forward again this legislative session in Washington state thanks to the efforts of Sen. Bob Hasegawa.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoRud Browne’s antics during the selection of Liz Lovelett for state Senator was only the latest weird act during his first year of his second term on the Whatcom County Council.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoOfficials from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan counties met Tuesday in Mount Vernon to appoint Liz Lovelett as state senator.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoBellingham Public Schools staff Greg Baker and Ron Cowan display contempt for public involvement, the environment, and public disclosure with the bus barn issue on Whatcom Creek.
15 comments, most recent 5 years agoRe-imagining Bellingham’s Waterfront
14 comments, most recent 5 years agoApproved by the City of Bellingham, a temporary tent encampment called Winter Haven will be operated by non-profit HomesNOW! through early April 2019.
16 comments, most recent 5 years agoProof that the COB is in bed with big telecoms. Here is an inappropriate COB Dig Once Policy that creates pathways for corporate welfare/abuse of the community.
Bellingham’s ban on consumer fireworks is simple. Fireworks are illegal. No time outs for holidays. And don’t forget the troops!
Our state treasurer is either extremely ignorant about public banking or openly shilling for corporate banks at the expense of citizens.
Jason Hickel asks “Can we have perpetual growth AND a healthy ecology?”
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoAlex McLean, who has served 6 years on the Greenway Advisory Committee, exposes Mayor Kelli Linville’s disdain for the community elected Greenways program.
22 comments, most recent 5 years agoIs it possible to even know where we are on climate change? Or is it too late already?
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe first of a set of articles outlining the process for a working-class family in Bellingham to try and fight our unfair housing values and the taxes linked to them.
13 comments, most recent 5 years agoWith the growth of commercial facilities, the number of risks and points of conflict for traffic and pedestrians have increase substantially.
4 comments, most recent 5 years agoFor months, Gene Knutson has seriously considered running for mayor. He has decided against it. The 2019 Bellingham mayor’s election continues to churn.
13 comments, most recent 5 years agoA brief overview of radiofrequency (RF) exposure tests taken in Bellingham at two locations.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe brewery management announced at a Sunnyland Neighborhood meeting it will stop the outside music until issues around the noise ordinance are resolved.
18 comments, most recent 5 years agoCalls to 911 are failing to stem the noise emanating from the Twin Sisters Brewery.
18 comments, most recent 5 years agoMeeting details about the existing public fiber-optic network with Eric Johnston and other COB officials for details they’re unnecessarily withholding.
8 comments, most recent 5 years agoOur running several day posting and comments on the election.
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoJustice reform will only come with the election of James Erb. Because Eric Richey has been a leader in the oppressive prosecutors practices for 10 years.
6 comments, most recent 5 years agoAlex Ramel sent an email to his political acquaintances on the racism in Michael Petrish’s campaign in the 40th district. We reprint it with his permission.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe city council should re-look its process for choosing replacements for vacant council seats.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoBrief overview of Atul Deshmane for Public Utility District 1, Commissioner District 2.
Updated Oct 23… Initiative 1631 creates a carbon tax, which is good, but gives the money to private political organizations and even exempts the biggest polluters from the tax.
18 comments, most recent 5 years agoLight pollution and special events seem to be the new normal at the Twin Sisters Brewery
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoA description of the many concerns surrounding 5G technology including, but not limited to, health concerns.
13 comments, most recent 5 years agoWhatcom County Deputy Prosecutor’s mismanagement of criminal cases costs victims, law enforcement, taxpayers, defendants and the justice system
13 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe have dawdled enough. Whatcom County and local municipalities must work with the legislature in Olympia to establish public banking.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe Point Roberts Registered Voter’s Association hosts Whatcom County’s first Formal Candidates Forum of the 2018 Election Season. 10 Candidates attend.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoA critical analysis of the Whatcom Regional Transportation Study. A study that falls under the category of lies, damned lies, and statistics for sure.
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoHannah Stone, a Bellingham immigration attorney, has been unanimously selected to serve out the vacated term of Roxanne Murphy.
12 comments, most recent 5 years agoA review of recently released documents showing corporate welfare to AT&T.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoAm delighted NW Citizen now has a solid future with its acquisition by a new LLC company
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoCandidates who seek appointment include two former City Council members.
18 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe are wallowing in a sea of debt. Affordable housing is a pipe-dream under these conditions.
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoCity Council member Roxanne Murphy resigns…on Facebook
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoThe Veteran Service Office at Western Washington University is working with a growing student-veteran population.
A brief essay on the dangerous lie at the heart of I-1639, which purports to regulate “assault” weapons.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoCity officials shut down the music at the official opening of Twin Sisters Brewing Company on Saturday. Illegal parking complaints also brought out the police.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoOur system of citizen participation fails the test of true dialogue. Exchange is practically ruled out by the process.
9 comments, most recent 3 years agoMonday eve, Aug 13, final update. Big ballot count today in Skagit county - but 40th remains the same.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoDo we mail our ballots or find a drop box to put it in? Do we trust the U.S. Postal Service? Do we?
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoFour excellent Democratic Party candidates are in the primary election for the 40th District House seat vacated by Kris Lytton. Browne goes negative at the last minute.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoA review of the privatization of communications by public entities, like the police and fire service, via the unnecessary use of AT&Ts questionable FirstNet service.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoDoug Ericksen and Vincent Buys are in Cambodia as we post this. What are these two Washington State 42nd Legislative District elected officials doing in Cambodia? What indeed!
11 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe uncover more public resources that are knowingly not being used and make more connections between the city and big telecom. All telecom items untimately go back to the committee for further discussion.
Voters have a choice of Richey or Erb for reform of our justice and jail mess. Who is saying what? Sounds like an echo chamber.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoHere are some thoughts on candidates for the August 7 primary election.
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoThe Linville administration won’t do right by its citizens when it comes to public infrastructure and telecom, but when it comes to following Ajit Pai’s and Verizons’ lead they say, “sure, no problem.”
Public banking can stop our dependence on commercial banks to whom we give our government revenue and receive little in return.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThis is yet another Dig Once Policy update outlining how the COB Public Works Department, under the direction of Ted Carlson, has been ignoring the advice and wishes of thousands of Bellingham residents.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe Bellingham Planning Commission has passed to the City Council a terribly flawed recommendation on vacation rentals.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoConsumer fireworks are illegal in Bellingham. Some would say it is difficult to tell.
8 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe are about local news at NWCitizen - but we are also citizens of the United States - or have we forgotten who we are?
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoIn many instances our police officers have become walking examples of post traumatic stress.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoMessaging by anecdotes, not facts, is becoming the watchword of creating ordinances in Bellingham
8 comments, most recent 5 years agoVeteran Television Journalist Ali Velshi talks about Culture, Identity Politics and his role in “Spotlighting the Political Circus in the United States”.
14 comments, most recent 5 years agoFactors to consider in incorporating an organization where the primary purpose is civic and profit is a secondary factor.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoMyopic leadership in the NFL is the problem.
The Seattle Times provides an in depth article on our local Nooksack Indian tribe’s new chairman, Ross Cline Sr. Bob Kelly is out and no where to be seen.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoFor my friend, the late Lewis Puller, on Memorial Day 2018.
4 comments, most recent 5 years agoSince 1917, Washington’s water laws have become increasingly complicated and counterproductive. Eric explains the major problems and suggests an alternative for a sustainable future.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoI am and you should be, too.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoAn update on the current status of discussions surrounding establishing a Dig Once Policy in Bellingham.
This article outlines how totally inadequate the low-income connections provided by the big telecoms are. Yet they are presented as a solution by many council members.
4 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe disease is greed. The cure to which seems to be beyond the ken of this city government.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoAfter 20 some years of owning and managing Northwest Citizen, I am retiring - and hopeful that some person or group will take ownership and go forward.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoA council call on landlords to reduce rents is in order.
12 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe goal of this article is to highlight a few amazing scientific discoveries in the hopes that it will motivate us to create an economy based on science instead of war.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoAn investigation of how the the DADU will destroy our Sacred Single-family neighborhoods.
22 comments, most recent 5 years agoBeware of the companies that will place that cute ADU in your backyard and turn you into a debtor overnight.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoTwo developable lots with over 50% of their property in Padden Creek and its wetland should be purchased by Greenways as they fit all the criteria.
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoAttendees at the campaign kickoff for Tim Ballew II, state Senate candidate, heard good things about Ballew, bad things about Doug Ericksen–and nothing about Pinky Vargas.
7 comments, most recent 5 years agoUpdate: comment extended to May15 for requesting public shorelines hearing, EIS, and public hearing - else city poised to approve townhouses by Derek Stebner be build virtually in Padden Creek.
5 comments, most recent 5 years agoThe COB has produced a new Fiber map recently that, like the old maps, is still totally inadequate, but has some new colors on it.
The consideration of the Dig Once Policy, I’ve mentioned in all of my articles, has been moved up to April 23rd. This can be either very good or very bad.
3 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe are now in a period of undefined censorship during the City Council’s public comment period. It’s called, “stick to the issue.”
9 comments, most recent 5 years agoWe take an early look at who is running for office this year in Whatcom County. Voters will elect a state senator, state representatives, a county councillor and prosecutor.
2 comments, most recent 5 years agoThis update in the 12 questions series covers the responses, or lack of responses, I’ve received from the mayor and other council members.
6 comments, most recent 5 years agoJim Peterson knows what it’s like to be homeless. He’s grateful to be on the other side now. But he won’t rest until every homeless person in our community is housed.
4 comments, most recent 5 years agoAn analysis of Senator Doug Ericksen’s alleged “double dipping” during early 2017 when serving as a senior adviser at the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC.
Toward a more comprehensive approach to human health and the environment
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoGas hit $1.55 a litre in Vancouver this week. The safe prediction is that pump prices will never go down.
11 comments, most recent 5 years agoThis is the 2nd interview in a series designed to help our readers better get to know our council members, and potential candidates for mayor.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoSandwich board signs proliferate in the Central Business District too but not the same way as in Fairhaven
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoThis article explains some of the shortcomings of wireless technology, and why we still need publicly owned conduit and fiber in Bellingham to support any broadband solution we use.
9 comments, most recent 3 years agoWhere did Doug Ericksen spend thousands of dollars in surplus campaign funds in Washington, DC, and what did he spend them for?
The Super Giant Slalom of the Olympic Games has nothing over the parkour of sandwich board signs on Fairhaven’s sidewalks.
9 comments, most recent 6 years ago40th state legislative representative, Kristine Lytton, not seeking reelection. South half of Bellingham is in 40th.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoIn the first of the 12-questions series, I interview Michael Lilliquist. My goal is to interview all officials using the same questions for the sake of governmental transparency.
5 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe lawsuit challenging the creation of the Chuckanut Community Forest Park District and the park district’s ability to preserve Chuckanut Ridge is finally over.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoHighlights the pros and cons of the recently passed telecom bills allowing our ports to more easily serve rural areas and protect net-neutrality: HB-2664, SHB-2664-S and SHB-2282
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoWe are never far away from glitches in our alert and alarm systems nationwide.
State Senator Doug Ericksen is alleged to have spent his excess campaign funds on his own personal endeavors, in violation of state law.
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoConnor Leib’s Life and Death: Stop jailing those with mental illness and get them treatment instead.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoPerception Clashes with Reality on the Prime Minister’s Latest Gambol to India
6 comments, most recent 4 years agoLate Thursday evening, Gov Inslee vetoed the bill - but he he has been busy this week putting together a compromise between the legislature and the news media - in secret.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoWe ask governor Inslee to veto ESB 6617 and let the legislators reconsider their panic driven secrecy bill.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoJames Erb and Eric Richey file to run for county prosecutor. McEachran will not run.
1 comment, most recent 5 years agoWhy did state legislators pass a measure, Senate Bill 6617, at breathtaking speed late last week denying public access to all previous records of their activities?
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoZoning laws do little to protect our residents while favoring businesses.
13 comments, most recent 6 years agoUpdate on efforts surrounding a publicly owned fiber optic network in Bellingham including a recently released fiber map from the COB including good news from the Port and State.
11 comments, most recent 6 years agoSen. Doug Ericksen’s blind fealty to a deeply unpopular president and his profligate use of taxpayer funds are likely to cost him dearly as he vies to get reelected in November.
8 comments, most recent 6 years agoDrug prohibition is the problem says this police officer. A saner approach would lead to justice and public safety.
It’s up to the western United States — which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton — to rescue our democracy from the ravages of the Trump regime.
Updated: Our Whatcom County Council is considering an ordinance tomorrow that will gut the provisions of state legislation that opened back up rural water wells for home owners and farmers.
9 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe first in a series on our Whatcom County justice system, with true stories from former jail inmates that highlight “touch-points” in the justice system in need of evaluation and reform.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe road gets rocky for the selfie-obsessed prime minister
10 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe Planning Commission, enabled by the planning staff, has seriously eroded neighborhood trust in the city’s zoning processes and commitments.
18 comments, most recent 6 years agoA good explanation of the amount of water in the Nooksack River on a seasonal basis - and the demands that people and salmon make on that flow. Eric is the expert.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoLocal news items from citizen journalists in Bellingham and Whatcom County.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoLisa provides us a primer. Bellingham city hall is struggling to find effective ways to address - to help - the homeless in our city.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoEric’s perspective on the state wide new rural water fix legislation, ESSB 6091. Governor Inslee signed it last Friday, and it went into effect immediately.
A critical look at the state legislature’s lame and deceptive effort to halt sexual harrassment and assault in - in the state legislature.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoPeter Gigante of Fairhaven says Donald Trump will take action on the USA’s trade imbalance with China. This action should come soon.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoSupposedly fighting for cheaper housing options in Happy Valley, Wendy Scherrer accepts an award from Whatcom Realtors.
17 comments, most recent 6 years agoIn 2018 a host of land/zoning issues come to the Bellingham Planning Commission and City Council, but cumulative impacts are ignored.
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed bipartisan legislation today that resolves the rural water permits for homeowner uses.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe Bellingham Neighborhood Coalition (BNC) thanks the 365 community members for signing the Community ADU Comment Letter on the City of Bellingham’s ADU Ordinance update.
Wherein your humble writer considers the argument over Detached Accessory Dwelling Units (DADU’s) which the City is proposing to permit in single family neighborhoods.
38 comments, most recent 6 years agoProminent local Republicans post a racist article on our local Lummi Indians.
9 comments, most recent 6 years agoLet’s put the asinine suggestion that Oprah is a viable presidential candidate in the dust bin of monumentally awful and destructive ideas.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoDick Conoboy has written for over 10 years about Bellingham city hall not enforcing its own laws and the slow destruction of single family neighborhoods. The award is well earned.
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoCommittee assignments will be voted on at tonight’s council meeting.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe Planning Commission attempts, poorly, to reconcile vacation rentals and housing for Bellingham’s own citizens.
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe Bellingham Neighborhood Coalition’s second public event on the currrent attempt to rezone the city.
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoCurrent County Council members will need to do their homework to separate the wheat from the chaff from the Eric Bostrom.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoIrrigation, the use of huge field sprinklers, is the big user of unpermitted water in our county. Not family households. Eric presents a solution.
10 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe Bellingham Council is considering the issue of public fiber for all of Bellingham. Jon presents a report on their struggle and urges action.
5 comments, most recent 6 years agoNine men and two women so far seek a one-year appointment to the County Council.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe city is beginning a process of densification to rezone/up-zone all single family neighborhoods. Pay attention.
5 comments, most recent 6 years agoWhy do national literature critics grossly underestimate the creative genius of great writers?
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoAppearing on the council agenda Tuesday, Nov. 21, is a proposed 2018 ballot measure to return Whatcom to countywide voting for council. Discussion is planned for Dec. 5.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoA report on what we hear (reliably!) about political appointments, firings and filing for offices. For political junkies only. (Not really.)
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoSocial Justice Warriors South of the Border Could Learn from Vancouver’s Experience with Reintegrating Sexual Offenders into the Community
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoWill Bellingham Neighborhoods wake up in time? Or will we experience the same failure of upzoning reform as our friends in Ballard?
7 comments, most recent 6 years agoDistrict-only voting for Whatcom Council is having its intended effect, as one conservative takes a seat.
Residents of several neighborhoods are organizing to preserve Bellingham’s livability and affordability.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoElection night info, links, and a bit of commentary.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoBallot boxes are insurance you can use to make sure your ballot is counted. U.S. postal mailing of ballots today or Tuesday has high risk of your ballot being ineligible.
One last Op-ed on the current Jail Tax proposal from the President of the Restorative Community Coalition
My final shot. Before you might vote YES, explore this site for more on the jail by Juliette Daniels, myself and others. Then vote REJECTED.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoA year-and-a-half after the inspections began, we have a black hole - missing almost 40% of the data.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoSaturday and Sunday, Nov 4 and 5, KMRE is hosting town hall meetings seeking ideas and help for the future of the radio station.
Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney David McEachran must lead reform of our criminal justice system.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoA critical analysis of our United States relations with Asian countries since WWII - and the China bashing we now hear from Trump and his supporters.
Effectively, the Bellingham Fire Department’s conclusion is that the cause of this horrific fire will remain unknown.
Todd Donovan, the expected winner of County Council election for District 2, has gone after his opponent Amy Glasser with absurd and over the top accusations. We have the posts.
9 comments, most recent 6 years agoDoug Karlberg, a savvy and informed fisherman and client of the Port of Bellingham, counters Servais’ article favoring Robbins with his harsh assessment of Robbins and the Port.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoAn examination of why only elected representatives are for this execrable tax proposition - was there ever a tax they didn’t like?
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoThe burned house had passed a rental inspection in October 2016 but still had many uncorrected health and safety violations.
11 comments, most recent 6 years agoWho I’m voting for, and briefly why, in the county, port and Bellingham elections. Also, a strong recommendation to REJECT the jail facility tax.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoDan Robbins is running for reelection and has used good common sense for decision making at the Port of Bellingham. Lets keep him.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoFossil-fuel loving climate-change deniers—including Doug Ericksen—who have taken over the federal government are seriously endangering our nation and planet.
6 comments, most recent 6 years agoNot the first Hansen/Lakeway Realty rental to burn. It ought to be the last.
28 comments, most recent 6 years agoTruckers are protesting in three states - and the news media is pretending it is not happening.
By presidential and governor proclamations, flags were lowered to half-staff today in respect for those murdered and wounded in Las Vegas last night.
13 comments, most recent 6 years agoThere is a myth in Bellingham that the city can build or zone its way into affordable housing but they are not in control…at all.
9 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe WWU alumni are planning an event with fireworks from atop the Herald Building without regard to animals, humans or the environment.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoNumbers: construction costs, bond interest costs, annual county costs, and more - all by a qualified CPA who has studied this issue for months.
7 comments, most recent 6 years agoAnd several good reasons why you should.
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoCNN interviews Darell Hillaire of the Lummi Nation about the Salmon Emergency, Rosalinda Guillen about the Detention Center hunger strike and Satpal Sidhu about the Arch of Healing
Cascadia News Now interviews Mayor Linville about Pickett Bridge, hate crimes in Whatcom, homelessness and updates on the Sarbandan farmworkers
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoCandidates gave back a donation and did not seek the party’s endorsement.
1 comment, most recent 6 years agoThere is more to the history of the Pickett Bridge
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoHow city franchises threaten net neutrality and affordable internet
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoAffordable housing is one part of a housing trilemma: housing cost, economic strength, and quality of life.
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoCascadia News Now explores the death of 28 year old farmworker Honesto Silva Ibarra, fresh perspectives on the Jail proposal, and interviews Rep. Rick Larsen.
IN praise of the sheer propagatory genius of the Himalayan blackberry.
The “Alt Right” movement must be condemned for its murderous actions in Charlottesville, Virginia. Their movement is not about “free speech.” Could it happen here? Yes, it has.
3 comments, most recent 6 years agoIn the confusing transition from 3 to 5 Whatcom County districts, a question arises: Who is eligible to replace Todd Donovan if he wins this fall and switches seats?
5 comments, most recent 6 years agoCascadia News Now digs into the Primary Election Results, our state budget woes, BC fires and the cancelling of “The Joe Show”
Honesto Silva Ibarra died while toiling in Whatcom County berry fields. The Herald does not report it. The Weekly does. Oh, and Margaret Bikman is let go by the Herald.
2 comments, most recent 6 years agoDoug Dahl explains the confused off/on ramps for north bound traffic at the Fairhaven exit of I-5. Dahl is the Target Zero Manager for the Whatcom County Traffic Safety Task Force.
Interviews with council candidates Roxanne Murphy, Eric Bostrum and Layton Murphy
4 comments, most recent 6 years agoSeveral primary contests of 3 candidates with only the 2 with the most votes going forward for the general election in November.
7 comments, most recent 6 years agoDoug Ericksen and Anthony Scaramucci were ill cast in the role of communications directors.
Do not bother looking at this place unless you are a group of 8 students splitting the cost.
7 comments, most recent 6 years agoThe Trump regime has turned its back on science and reason, endangering democracy in America.
A study on how home water usage management can target those using the most water. This may be a step towards a solution of our perceived county water supply and usage challenges.
7 comments, most recent 6 years agoEllen Murphy writes a requiem. The Joe Show on KBAI is being shut down. The noon every day show is the victim of a decision of large corporate media located 2,000 miles away.
3 comments, most recent 6 years ago