Tuesday, June 23, 2015 Ryan M. Ferris
Wednesday this week the Bellingham City Club will feature three speakers on the topic:
“Are we building a jail for the future or are we stuck in the past?”. Today and tonight’s agenda for the Whatcom County Council includes Jail Items. Below the break are some charts that look at data from Whatcom County Jail Roster press releases for 2015 from January 1st through June 19. Continue reading
1 hr / June 23, 2015 Joy Gilfilen
Fascinating the way that Executive branch versions of Fast Tracking works. I just realized that the jail sales tax initiative is no longer in any discussion phase. It has totally moved to the consent agenda for tonight after a new presentation by a new commitee will happen this afternoon. Continue reading
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 The Gristle, Cascadia Weekly
County Council continued to hear public comment on the jail proposal last week. […] Continue reading
June 18 at 9:43pm Sj Robson
Jon Mutchler wrote: “And I will stand up to those who don’t have our city’s best interests at heart.”
So far, City Council member Mutchler has not stood up to SSA Marine/PIT and its proposed Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal. Most people would argue that SSA Marine/PIT does not have the “city’s best interests at heart,” in proposing a 48 million ton coal export terminal that among other adverse impacts, would use a capacity of up to 5.33 million gallons of Nooksack River water per year. SSA Marine/PIT has its own best interests at heart, not the city of Ferndale. I’d like to see Mr. Mutchler stand up to that proposal. Continue reading
June 15 at 9:17pm Sj Robson
Charter Review Commissioner Ken Bell wrote this in a March 19 email to his fellow commissioners: “I have cast a couple of votes with trepidation and uncertainty and am not comfortable doing that any longer.”
At the time he wrote that, there had been 5 amendments voted on by the commission. I am curious as to which votes he was referring to. Continue reading
In what could be an appalling and game-changing precedent for many of Bellingham’s single-family neighborhoods, a megaplex of three seven-bedroom (five bedrooms plus two “bonus rooms”) single-family homes is planned for three adjoining lots on Iron St (1623, 1625, and 1627) in the York Neighborhood by local developers David and Jon Hansen under Cottonwood Units, LLC. Continue reading
June 5, 2015 Dylan Nelson
Dozens of students camped outside of Western President Bruce Shepard’s office to urge the Western Foundation to divest. Continue reading
Whatcom County planning and development continues to be asleep at the wheel on the BP crude by rail facility. When is a “rail loop” not a rail loop/track? When BP’s project plans describe it only in linear feet instead of describing it as a “third loop” but then show the “third loop” in a diagram of the facility. Continue reading
June 12 at 5:23pm by Sj Robson on FacebookWhy isn’t The Bellingham Herald reporting on this important issue that other news media is reporting on?
The farmworkers/Sakuma Farms issue is not simply a Skagit issue, especially because many wholesale farmers in Whatcom County are customers of Sakuma Farms. Continue reading
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