Of Broken Roads and Re-invented Wheels
I recently ran into Harry Skinner, long-time architect of some local reknown, now an octogenarian. His decades of design and planning experience have left him hard pressed to feel the [...]
Tip Johnson
Tip Johnson is a longtime citizen interest advocate with a record of public achievement projects for good government and the environment. A lifelong student of government, Tip served two terms on the Bellingham City Council and has worked on many community boards and committees. He travelled with the Federal Transit Administration and Department of Commerce on mass transit trade missions in SE Asia and Africa before settling down to focus on keeping public interests at the fore of local government and the course of growth and development.
Articles by Tip Johnson
Breaking News: City Council Changes
Roxanne Murphy has apparently announced her resignation from the Bellingham City Council on Facebook. Murphy notes she’s going to be paid substantially more for taking a position as an [...]
MERCURY VICTIMS OF WHATCOM COUNTY
Editor’s Note: Mercury Victims of Whatcom County is an anonymous, loose-knit organization that credits itself with having delivered the final blow that prompted Georgia-Pacific to end its Bellingham operations. [...]
Recent comments
"Good question, Dick. I pulled it from my waterfront files but it took some looking to retrieve the source. I should maybe have given some credit. I [...]
Of Broken Roads and Re-invented Wheels"Voters beware! Read your ballot measures carefully. The least thing written often surges to the fore once approved. I recall local scepticism toward the most recent greenways levy [...]
This Mayor Hates Greenways"And here is Erb’s https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/13YWoAWSmbEiu7dd38VlSaiStWirJwvyz?usp=sharing
The Cost of Prosecutorial Mismanagement"Hmmm. Ms, Flaherty’s comments, as she asserts, may not attain the status of ‘smear’ but they come awfully darn close. On the one hand she attempts to [...]
The Cost of Prosecutorial Mismanagement"So Richey may not have screwed up every case? Small comfort. More telling is the 98% plea rate. This is one of the ways they have kept the jail overcrowded [...]
The Cost of Prosecutorial Mismanagement
