"Part of the problem is over-reliance on consultants. If we (via COB) hire consultants who are in the business of selling technological solutions, they will sell us a technological solution, [...]
Death of the Golden GooseRecent comments
"Over more than two decades, and a series of City and Port administrations, vision meeting after meeting after design charrette after public hearing was convened, including the blue-ribbon, nationally-renowned pro-bono [...]
Affordable Housing Arrives At Bellingham's Waterfront?"Amen, Alex! When it takes a year and a half of secret negotiations (and over $100 million in taxpayer concessions) under an “exclusive negotiating agreement” to reach a [...]
Sink, Swim, or Divorce – Options Narrow for our Relationship with Harcourt"I don’t have a dog in this fight, but, many years ago served on a city committee looking at noise regulations for downtown, trying to balance the desire to [...]
Noise Enforcement Efforts Failing at Sunnyland Brewery"[from an oral history of a former G-P employee] I’ll be honest with you, if they were to run a core sample all the way down [...]
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