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I am and you should be, too.
An 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.
2 comments, most recent 6 days agoThe disease is greed. The cure to which seems to be beyond the ken of this city government.
4 comments, most recent 2 days 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 1 week agoA council call on landlords to reduce rents is in order.
12 comments, most recent 1 week 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.
2 comments, most recent 1 week agoAn investigation of how the the DADU will destroy our Sacred Single-family neighborhoods.
22 comments, most recent 2 days agoBeware of the companies that will place that cute ADU in your backyard and turn you into a debtor overnight.
3 comments, most recent 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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
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