Aliens Abduct Bellingham Mail Collection Box
Mail 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?
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Mail 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?
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Tonight the Bellingham City Council - with no agenda notice - authorized the mayor to begin process to abolish the Bellingham Municipal Court
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1 comment, most recent 3 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 3 years agoDespite willing property sellers, and Fleetwood’s campaign promises, and the unanimous Greenways Committee vote …. sigh.
6 comments, most recent 3 years ago“Differential Privacy:” A statistical adjustment system that may render 2020 census population data unusable.
1 comment, most recent 3 years agoAn essay on climate change, millennials’ concerns, and large corporations and governments complacently stealing our kids futures.
5 comments, most recent 3 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 3 years agoNew state legislation will cause cascade of changes to Bellingham’s codes
2 comments, most recent 3 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 3 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 3 years agoDaniel Kirkpatrick writes Mayor Fleetwood requesting he veto the council vacation of a street with a walking trail.
9 comments, most recent 3 years agoUgly and expensive. That is what we have brought to the Waterfront.
10 comments, most recent 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 3 years ago