We’re Screwed
For all the debate over spending and revenue, a few convenient facts seem to be ignored by most politicians and media. A simple graph shows the fundamental problem. [...]
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While writing his articles from 2008 to 2011, Craig lived near Lynden and taught at both Whatcom Community College and Western Washington University. He was active in politics and ran for public office on a couple of occasions.
For all the debate over spending and revenue, a few convenient facts seem to be ignored by most politicians and media. A simple graph shows the fundamental problem. [...]
There has been a lot of conversation about local food and one of the criticisms has been its high cost. Local meat does cost more, but it is important [...]
There have been lots of political conversations in recent days on the use of violent rhetoric and lots of calls to tone down the rhetoric. It got me thinking [...]
"I think two things are becoming increasingly clear. The democratic party is truly the statist party, the lover of big government and big business. The democrats claim it [...]
"John, by the way I also have to take issue with your “But that does not slow down you nor other conservatives on other blogs and online forums from [...]
"John, I was referring to this comment that he made below “This story needs to get out. I know the conservatives are deeply concerned about Washington Conservation Voters getting [...]
"I appreciate the hypocrisy. Washington Conservation Voters spending huge amounts of money on local candidates is only mildly distressing, but the coal industry now that is another story and [...]
"This is all just a game. The republicans are not going to shut down the government for very long. Obamacare will continue and will fall under its own [...]
Riley shares some thoughts, concerns, and observations on the uncommon phenomenon of mask-wearing during this pandemic.
6 comments, most recent 12 hours agoAtul Deshmane guest writes and provides us with a resume of the internet infrastructure issues now being discussed in Bellingham
1 comment, most recent 1 day agoPart of a series of articles on the progress of a public banking cooperative in Washington.
1 comment, most recent 2 days agoWith a recent dispute between the newspaper’s reporters and management over, the real work can begin.
3 comments, most recent 17 hours agoBellingham can learn from successful programs for the homeless elsewhere and would do well to abandon ineffectual approaches.
3 comments, most recent 3 days agoCity council and planning commission meetings were poor arrangements to begin with, and with Zoom it is very much worse.
2 comments, most recent 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 weeks agoThe monumental, pre-COVID levels of cruise ships and world tourism were not sustainable.
4 comments, most recent 3 weeks agoRay Kamada guest writes on how to have your cake and eat it too.
5 comments, most recent 1 week agoThe city has instituted unnecessary restrictions on the Broadband Advisory Group’s discussion and outside input.
3 comments, most recent 3 weeks 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 1 month 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.
2 comments, most recent 1 week 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month agoStatement by County Executive Satpal Sidhu in response to attack on Capitol
2 comments, most recent 1 month agoGene Knutson today announced he will not run for reelection this year and is retiring from the Bellingham City Council.
5 comments, most recent 1 week agoWhile McClatchy appears ready to accept unionization among the Herald’s content creators, it would be on their terms.
5 comments, most recent 1 month agoMark Ashworth writes about Trump and our current national situation.
There are no excuses remaining.
13 comments, most recent 1 month agoTwo photos of the same door, one taken about 2 p.m., the other six hours later at about 8 p.m., on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
10 comments, most recent 1 month agoPublic Works Director, Eric Johnston and Council Member Michael Lilliquist hand-picked their “perfect members” to determine our internet future.
14 comments, most recent 1 month agoA shift in housing policies is needed to avoid an escalation of our housing crisis.
4 comments, most recent 1 month agoFrozen resistance in some quarters against public banking may find a thaw in 2021.
3 comments, most recent 1 month agoSomething is amiss regarding the BNSF oil-train wreck in Custer on Dec 22, 2020. Why, after a week, are there no answers and a cause?
11 comments, most recent 2 months agoWWU, Western Washington University has a “Culture of Fear”. No, NW Citizen is not saying that - the Seattle Times is.
Even as our military veterans are dying at twice the rate of the general population, plans are being made to provide vaccinations through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
After a takeover by a hedge fund with a history of decimating newspapers, The Bellingham Herald’s news staff is taking a stand.
2 comments, most recent 1 month agoCOVID changed everything; let’s make policing better for everyone.
1 comment, most recent 2 days agoCouncilman Lilliquist tries to rewrite history in Bellingham’s war over internet fiber.
A conjunction occurs when two astronomical objects appear to line up. A great conjunction is when that happens with Jupiter and Saturn.
Olivia Hobson gives us a reprise of the last year under COVID-19 from the point of view of a WWU student.
1 comment, most recent 2 months agoWhatcom county - and Benton County - did better than expected in terms of the Covid-19 Post Thanksgiving surge
5 comments, most recent 2 months agoComcast inflicts $3/mo rate hike, data caps, and overage fees
4 comments, most recent 2 months agoCurrent flux in the composition of the Planning Commission means the group is overloaded with development-oriented members.
4 comments, most recent 2 months agoWith encouragement from the city of Bellingham, in 1994 Daniel Kirkpatrick organized dozens of Happy Valley neighborhood residents to build a trail on a city right of way.
3 comments, most recent 3 months agoProposed Elimination of the Douglas Avenue Trail
10 comments, most recent 2 months agoA “clinical trials geek” speaks up
4 comments, most recent 2 months agoHow Bellingham Schools fail the poor.
Bellingham’s homeless have no place to go. They need shelter now.
4 comments, most recent 3 months agoRepublicans who are silent during this disaster of a transition should be held to account in the next elections: county, state, and national. Here’s one example of their hypocrisy.
2 comments, most recent 3 months agoStay home for the holidays in 2020 so that you and yours will be around for the holidays in 2021
Chuck Robinson provides his knowledgeable perspective on Christmas and Holiday shopping. We asked Chuck, who is now retired, to write this for all of us.