Citizen Journalist • Member since Mar 15, 2012
Stoney Bird has been car-free for the last 20 years. It’s a good way to save money, stay healthy, and have fun when you are going around town. He served for many years as a corporate lawyer. More recently he has been involved in local environmental, transportation and social justice issues.
Over 1,500 Washingtonians signed in “Pro” to the House State Government and Tribal Relations Committee’s February 8th hearing on HB 1156, sponsored by Rep. Kirsten Harris-Talley. On February 11th, the Committee [...]
The last item on your ballot may be one of the most important for our daily lives in Bellingham. It’s the renewal of the Bellingham Transportation Fund: Proposition 2020-14. [...]
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 [...]
"Excellent point, Jon. I’ll try to keep a Dig Once Policy at the forefront in future things that I write. May the City do likewise when planning and carrying [...]
"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.
BAG - the Bellingham city hall Broadband Advisory Group is stacked in favor of mega corporations and against local public Internet service.
New state legislation will cause cascade of changes to Bellingham’s codes
2 comments, most recent 6 days agoCityView, the project that will not die, will soon be subject to scrutiny during an extraordinary meeting of the Planning Commission.
1 comment, most recent 5 days agoThe more contagious and possibly more deadly B.1.1.7 and P.1 coronavirus strains appear to be leaking down into Whatcom County from British Columbia.
7 comments, most recent 5 days agoDaniel Kirkpatrick writes Mayor Fleetwood requesting he veto the council vacation of a street with a walking trail.
8 comments, most recent 4 days agoUgly and expensive. That is what we have brought to the Waterfront.
10 comments, most recent 2 weeks agoSB 5188 to establish a Washington state Financial Cooperative is in an uncertain state in the legislature
Broken promises, bad administration, and still NO access to our publicly-owned resources
4 comments, most recent 1 month agoWashington moves ever closer to public banking for the good of its citizens and the fiscal health of the state.
8 comments, most recent 1 month agoThe advantage of an “advisory” group, (as in Broadband Advisory Group,) is that you don’t have to listen to them.
3 comments, most recent 1 month agoDoug Gustafson offers a point/counterpoint account of opposing strategies for tiny homes
27 comments, most recent 2 weeks agoFourteen February cases of the B.1.1.7 variant coronavirus strain suggest that it is beginning to surge in the county.
10 comments, most recent 1 month agoAfter clearing the Senate, Washington’s bill to create a public banking cooperative advances to the Democratically controlled House.
4 comments, most recent 2 months agoRiley shares some thoughts, concerns, and observations on the uncommon phenomenon of mask-wearing during this pandemic.
7 comments, most recent 2 months agoAtul Deshmane guest writes and provides us with a resume of the internet infrastructure issues now being discussed in Bellingham
7 comments, most recent 1 month agoPart of a series of articles on the progress of a public banking cooperative in Washington.
1 comment, most recent 2 months agoWith a recent dispute between the newspaper’s reporters and management over, the real work can begin.
3 comments, most recent 2 months agoBellingham can learn from successful programs for the homeless elsewhere and would do well to abandon ineffectual approaches.
5 comments, most recent 2 months agoCity council and planning commission meetings were poor arrangements to begin with, and with Zoom it is very much worse.
2 comments, most recent 2 months agoIrene Morgan writes a public letter to Governor Inslee about a new director of prisons
A substitute bill for the original SB 5188 was accepted and moved to the Ways and Means Committee for further consideration.
2 comments, most recent 3 months agoCurrent legislation, moving forward in Olympia, would permit localities to adopt ranked-choice voting as an upgrade to their currently mandated top-two system.
1 comment, most recent 3 months agoThe monumental, pre-COVID levels of cruise ships and world tourism were not sustainable.
4 comments, most recent 3 months agoRay Kamada guest writes on how to have your cake and eat it too.
5 comments, most recent 2 months agoThe city has instituted unnecessary restrictions on the Broadband Advisory Group’s discussion and outside input.
3 comments, most recent 3 months agoBrian Martel on the issue of Internet broadband service to our homes and pending bills in Olympia.
The Whatcom Human Rights Task Force has sent an open letter to the Community regarding the sweep of Camp 210.
Marii Herlinger writes on this past Thursday’s clearing of the homeless camp by city hall.
For the first time in a decade a hearing on a public banking bill found more supporters than detractors.
Bellingham started clearing 24 hours earlier than announced days ago. Antifa has showed up in numbers to provoke. Heavy police presence
2 comments, most recent 3 months agoRegulatory standards in SB-5511 offer nothing but give the appearance of doing something.
New Roberts Bank container-ship terminal proposed by the Port of Vancouver would generate additional vessel traffic that will impact endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales.
3 comments, most recent 1 month agoMayor Fleetwood and outgoing council members could not handle the truth at last night’s Bellingham City Council meeting. Homeless people and their advocates spoke truth to power.
25 comments, most recent 3 months agoTip Johnson makes the case that the City’s cozy relations with developers and its neighborhoods-be-damned attitude is costing us all.
3 comments, most recent 3 months agoA public bank in Washington is sorely needed for infrastructure projects and more especially with COVID-19 and the resultant severe economic downturn.
5 comments, most recent 3 months agoStatement by County Executive Satpal Sidhu in response to attack on Capitol
2 comments, most recent 4 months agoGene Knutson today announced he will not run for reelection this year and is retiring from the Bellingham City Council.
5 comments, most recent 2 months agoWhile McClatchy appears ready to accept unionization among the Herald’s content creators, it would be on their terms.
5 comments, most recent 4 months agoMark Ashworth writes about Trump and our current national situation.
There are no excuses remaining.
13 comments, most recent 4 months agoTwo photos of the same door, one taken about 2 p.m., the other six hours later at about 8 p.m., on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
10 comments, most recent 3 months agoPublic Works Director, Eric Johnston and Council Member Michael Lilliquist hand-picked their “perfect members” to determine our internet future.
14 comments, most recent 4 months agoA shift in housing policies is needed to avoid an escalation of our housing crisis.
4 comments, most recent 4 months agoFrozen resistance in some quarters against public banking may find a thaw in 2021.
3 comments, most recent 3 months agoSomething is amiss regarding the BNSF oil-train wreck in Custer on Dec 22, 2020. Why, after a week, are there no answers and a cause?
11 comments, most recent 4 months agoWWU, Western Washington University has a “Culture of Fear”. No, NW Citizen is not saying that - the Seattle Times is.
Even as our military veterans are dying at twice the rate of the general population, plans are being made to provide vaccinations through the Department of Veterans Affairs.
After a takeover by a hedge fund with a history of decimating newspapers, The Bellingham Herald’s news staff is taking a stand.
2 comments, most recent 4 months agoCOVID changed everything; let’s make policing better for everyone.
1 comment, most recent 2 months agoCouncilman Lilliquist tries to rewrite history in Bellingham’s war over internet fiber.
