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 [...]
WA State Department of Commerce Internet Access Test is a Scam to Protect Big Telecom
7 comments, most recent 5 days 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 day 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 weeks agoRelative to the state’s other 38 counties, Whatcom is doing reasonably well in terms of COVID-19 deaths
2 comments, most recent 2 weeks 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 1 week 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 2 weeks agoThe 30 Republican-leaning states now lead in total COVID-19 cases
3 comments, most recent 1 week agoNo kidding, this mature cougar was casually prowling backyards inside the Bellingham city limits this past weekend.
4 comments, most recent 3 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 4 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 3 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 months agoA developer’s meeting with Samish neighbors sheds more light on the Samish View Development.
7 comments, most recent 2 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.
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 2 months agoA straightforward assessment of the CityView dormitory apartment complex proposal.
5 comments, most recent 3 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 3 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.
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