Citizen Journalist • Member since Mar 23, 2018
Tom Dohman is a retired food industry professional - schooled as a microbiologist - who spent three decades working for various food companies, in the disciplines of food product development, quality assurance, food safety and regulatory affairs. He moved to Bellingham for its stunning natural beauty and desirable quality of life. He continues to believe that an informed public can influence its local government to make better decisions for its citizens and that - just maybe - reason can prevail in the end.
As stated in the language on the ballot recently received in the mail, two levies, Proposition 2020-9 and Proposition 2020-10, are designed to replace expiring Bellingham School District 501 (BSD) levies [...]
Approximately 68 acres of forested land on Samish Hill (east of 40th St) are slated for timber harvesting with follow-up plans to replant the logged areas with new tree seedlings within 1[...]
"Anytime I see it mentioned that the U.S. was SCREENING for COVID-19 symptoms back in January (or perhaps even to this day), I feel the need to put such [...]
"Dr. Swanson: Having lived for 22+ years in the Tri-Cities, I am a bit perplexed when you state Benton County data in numerous places in your latest update. My [...]
"Well, the election is ending tonight so we’re not likely to influence many other voters at this point. I do appreciate the points of view presenting a different [...]
"My article was replete with lots of
White guilt in tow, the author treks 260 miles from Bellingham to Portland to see what all the fuss is about.
3 comments, most recent 2 days agoSee link to map of Ballot Drop Boxes. It is too late now to mail your ballot. Postal Service is struggling. Drop your ballot in a Drop Box.
5 comments, most recent 3 days agoVeterans honor veterans in this time of national mourning.
Only very limited number of experiential courses will be taught on campus.
4 comments, most recent 4 days agoMoving to the governor’s Phase 3 reopening will very likely never happen. What we have is what we get, except for going back to Phase 1.
29 comments, most recent 3 days agoWhatcom Human Rights Task Force has sent an open letter to Mayor Fleetwood and Executive Sidhu expressing their concerns about the planned four Listening Sessions.
3 comments, most recent 1 week agoRelative to the state’s other 38 counties, Whatcom is doing reasonably well in terms of COVID-19 deaths
2 comments, most recent 1 week agoGuest writer, Dianne Foster, a self-described “old radical hippie, yearning for a better world,” shares her election choices and reasoning.
12 comments, most recent 4 days agoEven a partial opening of the WWU campus will threaten or reverse our progress in fighting the pandemic. Play with fire, get burned.
11 comments, most recent 1 week agoThe 30 Republican-leaning states now lead in total COVID-19 cases
3 comments, most recent 7 hours agoNo kidding, this mature cougar was casually prowling backyards inside the Bellingham city limits this past weekend.
4 comments, most recent 2 weeks agoSo far, so good for San Juan County. The July 4th holiday visitors have not led to either a “Yellow” or “Red” alert for covid-19 cases among its residents
This brief article will appear on days when Old Glory is at half-staff.
A writer has a conversation with an article about police unions.
5 comments, most recent 3 weeks agoBringing thousands of students back to campus in the fall is a recipe for a disastrous spread of COVID-19. Restart in the fall of 2021.
23 comments, most recent 2 weeks agoAlong with potential “super-spreader” venues, rates of interaction, and other factors, “being Republican” also could represent a COVID-19 risk factor.
6 comments, most recent 1 month agoWith this year’s crop about to fly the coop, it’s time to contact Mayor Fleetwood to seal the deal and create a permanent, protected wildlife reserve — the first of its kind in Bellingham.
1 comment, most recent 1 month agoGuess what? Nobody has a corner on the use or abuse of the U.S. flag.
15 comments, most recent 1 week agoAuthors find that their method produces estimates of unconfirmed cases consistent with an announcement by the CDC that there are ten times more cases than reported.
Consumer fireworks are prohibited in Bellingham but already the sounds of fireworks are noticeable as the 4th of July nears.
2 comments, most recent 1 week agoState St roundabout will earn its keep with all the new neighbors.
3 comments, most recent 1 month agoWhere in Washington are the COVID-19 case increases higher? Republican-leaning counties or Democratic leaning counties?
12 comments, most recent 1 month agoDeep cuts are likely coming to our state universities. The financial storm has arrived.
6 comments, most recent 1 month agoAre politics driving new COVID-19 infections as Whatcom and Skagit counties reopen from the shutdown?
5 comments, most recent 1 month agoJohn and Janet Crews guest write how the Public Market building is in the middle of small downtown businesses. The mayor, after a secret process, now rushes this issue to the council on Tuesday.
1 comment, most recent 1 month agoHong Kong freedom protestors are against Black Lives Matters protestors?? Our USA corporate media have not told us that. Ho See-wing links us to more news sources.
2 comments, most recent 1 month agoMayor Seth Fleetwood staff has fumbled their secretive effort to provide a replacement shelter to replace the Bellingham High School use.
11 comments, most recent 1 month agoA developer’s meeting with Samish neighbors sheds more light on the Samish View Development.
7 comments, most recent 1 month agoHow and why we can change the use of many urban streets to activities other than exclusive use for cars and trucks. They are our public spaces for use as we see best.
5 comments, most recent 1 month agoSummer visitors are likely to bring COVID-19 to previously unaffected or lightly affected seasonal communities requiring a model for risk evaluation and adaptive responses.
6 comments, most recent 1 month agoHow the Herald reports Bellingham news by reprinting articles from the Seattle Times - but cannot even do that honestly.
1 comment, most recent 2 months agoWith three apartment complexes (about 700 tenants ) added to the congested area around the Samish/I-5 bridge, the situation is about to get “interesting”.
4 comments, most recent 2 months agoThe ACLU this morning filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination of Dr Lin, the emergency room doctor who spoke out about lack of safe procedutes at St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.
2 comments, most recent 2 months agoHaving certainty about one’s water rights would allow users to negotiate with greater confidence than they now have.
Opponents of this project await a public meeting before the city’s Planning Commission, possibly in June.
Elwood Edge Apartments at Elwood and Lincoln will add 154 to 186 tenants to the already congested area at the Samish Way overpass. But don’t go away. There is more.
2 comments, most recent 2 months agoAn opinionated review of how the novel coronavirus struck Skagit, San Juan and Whatcom Counties, with a focus on the lessons learned.
An analysis of the emerging China bashing for political purposes and why it is so misplaced. A Chinese-American, who grew up in Hong Kong and lived many years in Texas, gives us his perspective.
6 comments, most recent 2 months agoOur guest writer takes us through an explanation of inflation and deflation in the time of COVID-19
3 comments, most recent 1 month agoA straightforward assessment of the CityView dormitory apartment complex proposal.
5 comments, most recent 2 months agoOur guest writer makes a case for the minting of one or more trillion dollar coins as a funding mechanism in the time of COVID-19 and a collapsing economy.
18 comments, most recent 2 months agoSenicide is a term not oft used but it is making a resurgence in this time of pandemic.
3 comments, most recent 2 months agoA comprehensive overview of the CityView private dormitory complex proposed for the Puget Neighborhood.
9 comments, most recent 2 months agoWestern Washington University seems to hate trees as they remove 48 more beautiful fir trees this week from the campus.
9 comments, most recent 3 months agoHotspots like the one in the Benton county in Washington may prove to have a higher level, chronic COVID-19 infection rate as the governor attempts to re-open the economy.
Dr. David Swanson gives us his final report on the trajectory of COVID-19’s rise in the county.
4 comments, most recent 3 months agoThe developer has submitted a complete application for a 106 unit dormitory apartment complex with 318 residents.
5 comments, most recent 3 months agoTo remember the victims of the COVID-19 epidemic.
We have all encountered people in grocery stores not wearing masks. Including the employees. Jane makes a valiant attempt to get through to those folks. And to the store managers.
17 comments, most recent 2 months agoDr. Swanson leads us through some of the issues involved in pandemic modeling, especially with insufficient data.
5 comments, most recent 3 months ago
