Citizen Journalist • Member since Mar 15, 2012
Stoney Bird served for many years as a corporate lawyer. More recently he has been involved in local environmental, transportation and social justice issues. He has been car-free for the last 20 years.
These days, you’ll find ranked-choice voting (RCV) popping up all over. Only last November, New York City voters adopted ranked-choice voting by a margin of 73% for and 27% against. Another [...]
Many readers will have noticed that there is a pronounced reduction in car traffic these days. The decrease seems actually to be an international phenomenon. With fewer cars, streets around [...]
Stoney Bird guest writes. In 2012, an initiative campaign for a Community Bill of Rights in Bellingham was part of a nationwide movement for local communities to reassert their rights, their [...]
"More on what cities around the world are doing to encourage bicycles in the COVID era. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/business/paris-bicycles-commute-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare
"Thanks for your comment, Nicholas. There is actually a group in town working on these things. You can contact them through Walk-Bike-Bus Bellingham on Facebook.
"My goodness, Mr. Lau, I can’t find the connection between what I wrote and your comment. Ranked-choice voting isn’t about “one Party” consolidating power. It’s about all [...]
Mike Pellicciotti is the one to replace the current, Trump-loving incumbent Washington State Treasurer.
2 comments, most recent 11 hours agoWhy the Trump “administration” is responsible for at least half the 200,000+ US coronavirus deaths.
3 comments, most recent 1 day agoBellingham police are between a rock and a hard place. Resolution of issues will not be easy or pleasant given the history of policing.
6 comments, most recent 4 days ago4th Update posted. We will provide short updates to the article “Cougar Trapping … Maybe,” to keep you informed of the cougar’s status.
4 comments, most recent 1 week agoAs of January 2021 only one planning commissioner will have served more than a year. Experience will be woefully lacking
1 comment, most recent 1 week agoAn effort to trap a cougar that has been hanging around the southside too long is in place.
1 comment, most recent 2 weeks agoMarkis Dee guest writes as the County Council appointed Homeless Advocate for Whatcom County. This is a first person account of his experiences and recommendations.
1 comment, most recent 2 weeks agoA Public Works document on Bellingham’s fiber optic network leaves much to be desired.
Neither innocence nor guilt will add much to our understanding of the deaths of these two men.
7 comments, most recent 2 weeks agoReal progress on broadband and fiber optics is not what is being sold to the public by the city.
3 comments, most recent 3 weeks agoNot local, but we would be remiss to not speak out.
About two-thirds of all returning students will live in campus residence halls, but that does not mean they will be confined to campus.
12 comments, most recent 2 weeks agoClose questioning of the auditor’s office reveals the truth. Now the issue becomes, what will county leaders do with these two extra ballot drop boxes?
6 comments, most recent 4 weeks agoVoters prefer drop boxes to ensure their ballots are counted, yet our county auditor thinks that is not true. The numbers are against her.
8 comments, most recent 1 month agoStudents returning for the fall semester at WWU present the greatest threat to local residents during this pandemic.
An undemocratic process awaits a workgroup on broadband.
The curtain has been pulled back on the vulnerability of US higher education.
3 comments, most recent 1 month agoIn a specific and obviously sternly written request for information, the city outlined the deficiencies in the CityView project proposal.
Enoch J. Ledet guest writes, advocating for a better method of cleaning Lake Whatcom of the phosphorus. The phosphorus that our drinking water must not contain.
1 comment, most recent 1 month agoIrene Morgan guest writes. She is turning 80 this week and reflects on her many years of helping victims of our so called justice system.
1 comment, most recent 1 month agoWA State Department of Commerce Internet Access Test is a Scam to Protect Big Telecom
7 comments, most recent 1 month agoWhite guilt in tow, the author treks 260 miles from Bellingham to Portland to see what all the fuss is about.
4 comments, most recent 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
4 comments, most recent 1 month agoRelative to the state’s other 38 counties, Whatcom is doing reasonably well in terms of COVID-19 deaths
2 comments, most recent 2 months agoGuest writer, Dianne Foster, a self-described “old radical hippie, yearning for a better world,” shares her election choices and reasoning.
14 comments, most recent 1 month 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 month agoThe 30 Republican-leaning states now lead in total COVID-19 cases
3 comments, most recent 1 month agoNo kidding, this mature cougar was casually prowling backyards inside the Bellingham city limits this past weekend.
4 comments, most recent 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months agoGuess what? Nobody has a corner on the use or abuse of the U.S. flag.
15 comments, most recent 1 month 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 month agoState St roundabout will earn its keep with all the new neighbors.
3 comments, most recent 3 months agoWhere in Washington are the COVID-19 case increases higher? Republican-leaning counties or Democratic leaning counties?
12 comments, most recent 3 months agoDeep cuts are likely coming to our state universities. The financial storm has arrived.
6 comments, most recent 3 months agoAre politics driving new COVID-19 infections as Whatcom and Skagit counties reopen from the shutdown?
5 comments, most recent 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months agoA developer’s meeting with Samish neighbors sheds more light on the Samish View Development.
7 comments, most recent 3 months 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.
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