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 [...]

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. [...]

"I think these camps are a great transitional housing resource and thank Homes Now for their persistence and hard work.  However, I’m not sure that location is well [...]

"It is a very good idea to get your family and friends to sign up for this “further notice”.  These things have a habit of returning around holidays or [...]

"Spot on.  This MNAC castration, together with past planning director Vargas’ gutting of the neighborhood plans, abrogated more than thirty years of City guarantees of neighborhood integrity to homeowners [...]

"We use the Puget Sound as a sewer.  It is a cul de sac, and cannot “refresh” itself.  Everything we dump accumulates in the water column [...]

"It’s just so obvious the creek is a bad place for a bus barn. Besides possible water quality impacts and lost habitat opportunities, just the emissions from all those [...]