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October 27, 2015 Restorative Community Coalition
The Coalition’s Board of Directors just sent letter requesting an investigation to the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force and to the Whatcom County Ethics Comission today. Continue reading
Lots of interesting things on the county council agenda for Tuesday, but this, a $137,000 contract for evaluation of the Lake Whatcom storm water capital facilities plan, caught my eye for several reasons. Continue reading
The Voice of AuthorityMon, Oct 26, 2015, 2:57 pm Tip Johnson
This election, featuring a huge jail tax proposition, has seen much talk about the “dilapidated” jail that is “literally falling apart.” In a questionable jail mailer Sheriff Elfo cites, “severe and unsustainable conditions within the jail that jeopardize staff, visitors and inmates.”
This begs the obvious: Why has the jail not been fixed after taxpayers approved a sales tax to do so? According to a letter from Elfo to County Executive Jack Louws on April 22, 2015, Elfo says, “it would be imprudent to invest major capital to remodel and continue utilizing a facility” described as “inadequate, failing and dangerous.” That makes their 2004 jail tax campaign look like a bait and switch. And when was that decision made? By whom? Does Elfo really have the authority to overturn the electorate’s intentions? […]
You can’t return a serve that doesn’t arriveMon, Oct 26, 2015, 4:32 pm Tip Johnson
By now, most everyone is aware that the county sent a controversial promotional piece supporting the jail tax to voters, paid for with tax funds. Continue reading
10/23/2015 Facebook comment by Clear Ballot Choices (Pacific International Terminals LLC) Campaign Manager and Committee Chair Ron Reimer after the date the PAC registered with the PDC.
October 26, 2015 Sandy Robson
News broke this past weekend in Whatcom County about a last minute coal terminal-funded PAC, formed by Gateway Pacific Terminal (GPT) applicant Pacific International Terminals LLC, to support Charter Review Commission-generated Props 1, 2, and 3, and to oppose citizen-proposed Prop 9, placed on the November election ballot, via ordinance, by the Whatcom County Council. The PAC is named Clear Ballot Choices (Pacific International Terminals, LLC). Continue reading
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