"Dear Jamie, I hope you are well and enjoying the gorgeous spring we’re having. I thought I would reach out regarding your recent article here, seeing as [...]
Bellingham Heron Colony Threatened by Development - AgainCommenter • Member since Apr 08, 2019
"Dear Jamie, I hope you are well and enjoying the gorgeous spring we’re having. I thought I would reach out regarding your recent article here, seeing as [...]
Housing equity is thrown to the wind. Vacation rentals for tourists will remove rental housing for Bellingham residents.
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoTrees are not expendable like weeds. We should not treat them as such.
An interesting city- and state-oriented strategy to solve the national corruption crisis.
A net gain of 264 on-campus dormitory beds two years from now will do virtually nothing to take the pressure off Bellingham’s rental market.
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoBellingham’s Only Great Blue Heron colony Faces Human Threats - Again. Who Wants to Help?
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoVarious activities on Samish Hill suggest the future for a large area of land zoned single-family.
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoCommercial Shellfish farmers in Willapa Bay and elsewhere in the Salish Sea permitted by our “green” Governor to spray herbicides and turn healthy eelgrass beds into deserts.
1 comment, most recent 1 year agoMNAC should be restored by the next mayor to its role in the planning process, the review of the Comprehensive Plan, and neighborhood plans.
7 comments, most recent 1 year agoCanada continues to push forward on its Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion despit overwhelming opposition and damning evidence — as well as serious economic headwinds — against it.
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe Bells baseball team again chooses fireworks over the welfare of pets, vets, the psychologically fragile, and wildlife.
1 comment, most recent 1 year agoWe need immediate action to save the canaries in our coal mine, the Southern Resident Orca and Salmon. Take down obsolete salmon-blocking dams before it’s too late.
7 comments, most recent 1 year agoAnderson would replace Terry Bornemann who retires from city council at the end of 2019
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoWhy do we let our grocery stores vet charities and direct our donations?
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoThere is a stealth invasion of stick-built apartment complexes in Bellingham. Few have any redeeming architectural merit.
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoBellingham again wastes its time with a survey in which the respondents self-select, essentially negating the results.
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoPublic banking is moving forward again this legislative session in Washington state thanks to the efforts of Sen. Bob Hasegawa.
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoRud Browne’s antics during the selection of Liz Lovelett for state Senator was only the latest weird act during his first year of his second term on the Whatcom County Council.
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoOfficials from Whatcom, Skagit and San Juan counties met Tuesday in Mount Vernon to appoint Liz Lovelett as state senator.
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoBellingham Public Schools staff Greg Baker and Ron Cowan display contempt for public involvement, the environment, and public disclosure with the bus barn issue on Whatcom Creek.
15 comments, most recent 1 year agoRe-imagining Bellingham’s Waterfront
14 comments, most recent 1 year agoApproved by the City of Bellingham, a temporary tent encampment called Winter Haven will be operated by non-profit HomesNOW! through early April 2019.
16 comments, most recent 1 year agoProof that the COB is in bed with big telecoms. Here is an inappropriate COB Dig Once Policy that creates pathways for corporate welfare/abuse of the community.
Bellingham’s ban on consumer fireworks is simple. Fireworks are illegal. No time outs for holidays. And don’t forget the troops!
Our state treasurer is either extremely ignorant about public banking or openly shilling for corporate banks at the expense of citizens.
Jason Hickel asks “Can we have perpetual growth AND a healthy ecology?”
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoAlex McLean, who has served 6 years on the Greenway Advisory Committee, exposes Mayor Kelli Linville’s disdain for the community elected Greenways program.
22 comments, most recent 1 year agoIs it possible to even know where we are on climate change? Or is it too late already?
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe first of a set of articles outlining the process for a working-class family in Bellingham to try and fight our unfair housing values and the taxes linked to them.
13 comments, most recent 1 year agoWith the growth of commercial facilities, the number of risks and points of conflict for traffic and pedestrians have increase substantially.
4 comments, most recent 1 year agoFor months, Gene Knutson has seriously considered running for mayor. He has decided against it. The 2019 Bellingham mayor’s election continues to churn.
13 comments, most recent 1 year agoA brief overview of radiofrequency (RF) exposure tests taken in Bellingham at two locations.
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe brewery management announced at a Sunnyland Neighborhood meeting it will stop the outside music until issues around the noise ordinance are resolved.
18 comments, most recent 1 year agoCalls to 911 are failing to stem the noise emanating from the Twin Sisters Brewery.
18 comments, most recent 1 year agoMeeting details about the existing public fiber-optic network with Eric Johnston and other COB officials for details they’re unnecessarily withholding.
8 comments, most recent 1 year agoOur running several day posting and comments on the election.
1 comment, most recent 1 year agoJustice reform will only come with the election of James Erb. Because Eric Richey has been a leader in the oppressive prosecutors practices for 10 years.
6 comments, most recent 1 year agoAlex Ramel sent an email to his political acquaintances on the racism in Michael Petrish’s campaign in the 40th district. We reprint it with his permission.
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe city council should re-look its process for choosing replacements for vacant council seats.
7 comments, most recent 1 year agoBrief overview of Atul Deshmane for Public Utility District 1, Commissioner District 2.
Updated Oct 23… Initiative 1631 creates a carbon tax, which is good, but gives the money to private political organizations and even exempts the biggest polluters from the tax.
18 comments, most recent 1 year agoLight pollution and special events seem to be the new normal at the Twin Sisters Brewery
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoA description of the many concerns surrounding 5G technology including, but not limited to, health concerns.
13 comments, most recent 1 year agoWhatcom County Deputy Prosecutor’s mismanagement of criminal cases costs victims, law enforcement, taxpayers, defendants and the justice system
13 comments, most recent 1 year agoWe have dawdled enough. Whatcom County and local municipalities must work with the legislature in Olympia to establish public banking.
2 comments, most recent 1 year agoThe Point Roberts Registered Voter’s Association hosts Whatcom County’s first Formal Candidates Forum of the 2018 Election Season. 10 Candidates attend.
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoA critical analysis of the Whatcom Regional Transportation Study. A study that falls under the category of lies, damned lies, and statistics for sure.
1 comment, most recent 1 year agoHannah Stone, a Bellingham immigration attorney, has been unanimously selected to serve out the vacated term of Roxanne Murphy.
12 comments, most recent 1 year agoA review of recently released documents showing corporate welfare to AT&T.
5 comments, most recent 1 year agoAm delighted NW Citizen now has a solid future with its acquisition by a new LLC company
3 comments, most recent 1 year agoCandidates who seek appointment include two former City Council members.
18 comments, most recent 1 year ago