The Monumentally Moronic Mindlessness Of YouTube
It is time for Bellingham City Hall to take control by dumping YouTube for having taken down a video of a City Council meeting.
Citizen Journalist and Editor • Member since Jul 20, 2009
It is time for Bellingham City Hall to take control by dumping YouTube for having taken down a video of a City Council meeting.
8 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe Whatcom County Council is afraid to make an appointment of a temporary District Court judge before the Primary Election. Is the “fix” in?
1 comment, most recent 1 year agoYet another eyesore bunker-like building for bunking students at market rental rates.
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe city granted building permits while the Planning Department knew this was a state historical Indian village site.
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoBellingham website goes dead with one person taking a few days off. So much for an administration and a system. Third world government.
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoEffective, efficient and low cost, high speed broadband service continues to elude Bellingham and Whatcom County
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoBellingham continues to have its mail dropoff options changed willy-nilly.
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoTime to put the kibosh on the CityView private dormitory project for the good of the neighborhood and the good of the city.
Riley and Bryna Sweeney write about the petition to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Meridian School District.
How Mayor Fleetwood and his city attorneys are violating the basic laws that our nation was founded and built upon.
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoCity attorney James Erb removed from legal case against Judge Lev for conflict of interest by Superior Court judge.
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoMail 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?
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoA new and local county wide technology group of Internet and broadband experts has been formed. Jon explains why and lists the members.
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoMary Kay Becker writes about the Bellingham Municipal Court Controversy
Tonight the Bellingham City Council - with no agenda notice - authorized the mayor to begin process to abolish the Bellingham Municipal Court
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoWhat does a little stream matter? Spoiler alert! It’s not a joke and, if it were, it would not be a nice one.
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe presiding judge of Whatcom County District Court has suddenly resigned effective July first.
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoA day to remember the US service men and women who have passed away.
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoDebra Lev, Bellingham’s municipal court judge, is suing Mayor Seth Fleetwood and the city
7 comments, most recent 1 year agoCity staff report outlines “issues” with megalithic CityView complex. You have a chance to comment.
1 comment, most recent 1 year 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 1 year agoDespite willing property sellers, and Fleetwood’s campaign promises, and the unanimous Greenways Committee vote …. sigh.
6 comments, most recent 1 year ago“Differential Privacy:” A statistical adjustment system that may render 2020 census population data unusable.
1 comment, most recent 1 year agoAn essay on climate change, millennials’ concerns, and large corporations and governments complacently stealing our kids futures.
5 comments, most recent 1 year 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 1 year agoNew state legislation will cause cascade of changes to Bellingham’s codes
2 comments, most recent 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year agoDaniel Kirkpatrick writes Mayor Fleetwood requesting he veto the council vacation of a street with a walking trail.
9 comments, most recent 1 year agoUgly and expensive. That is what we have brought to the Waterfront.
10 comments, most recent 1 year 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 1 year agoWashington moves ever closer to public banking for the good of its citizens and the fiscal health of the state.
8 comments, most recent 1 year 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 2 years agoDoug Gustafson offers a point/counterpoint account of opposing strategies for tiny homes
27 comments, most recent 1 year 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 2 years agoAfter clearing the Senate, Washington’s bill to create a public banking cooperative advances to the Democratically controlled House.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoRiley shares some thoughts, concerns, and observations on the uncommon phenomenon of mask-wearing during this pandemic.
7 comments, most recent 2 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 1 year agoPart of a series of articles on the progress of a public banking cooperative in Washington.
1 comment, most recent 2 years agoWith a recent dispute between the newspaper’s reporters and management over, the real work can begin.
3 comments, most recent 2 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 2 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 1 year 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 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 2 years agoThe monumental, pre-COVID levels of cruise ships and world tourism were not sustainable.
4 comments, most recent 2 years agoRay Kamada guest writes on how to have your cake and eat it too.
5 comments, most recent 2 years agoThe city has instituted unnecessary restrictions on the Broadband Advisory Group’s discussion and outside input.
3 comments, most recent 2 years agoBrian Martel on the issue of Internet broadband service to our homes and pending bills in Olympia.
