I emailed the Executive with regard to the Trump visit and received a prompt response, which included an email that Sheriff Elfo had prepared when responding to another citizen on this issue. Continue reading
Author Archives: Dena
Water quality and quantity problems are destined to fail for this reason: incentives / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
County Council, please take note. Despite all the positive changes you have made to the county comp. plan [Whatcom County Comprehensive Plan], your efforts to address water quality and quantity problems are destined to fail for this reason: incentives. Continue reading
Things to know about Driscoll’s at Whole Foods Market in Bellingham / Noisy Waters Northwest
Facebook event banner for May 28, 2016, 1 p.m., informational picket at Whole Foods Market, Lakeway Center location in Bellingham. Click on the graphic to go the the event page.
May 19, 2016 Dena Jensen (Updated May 19, 2016 at 5:15 p.m.)
In mid-March 2016 Familias Unidas por la Jusiticia launched a 28 day tour of the West Coast to “energize a major offensive on the boycott of Driscoll’s berries.” The second stop on their tour was at at Whole Foods Market in Portland, Oregon. I wanted to put together a few pieces of information about this month’s opening of Whole Foods Market here in Bellingham as it relates to the boycott of Driscoll’s Continue reading
Options High – what is going on? / NorthwestCitizen, Editor’s Blog, John Servais
Tue, May 17, 2016, 8:32 pm John Servais
Just posted [on NorthwestCitizen] is an article by Pat McKee on the need for a traffic study before building the new Options High. The Bellingham School District basically cheated on filling out their non dertermination form for city planning. Continue reading
Missing Options High School traffic study / NorthwestCitizen, Guest Writer, Patrick McKee
Plan is to replace the 110 student temporary buildings with a 400 student school. With two schools there now, traffic and parking are a mess.Tue, May 17, 2016, 7:45 pm Guest writer
Patrick McKee, a leader in the Sunnyland Neighborhood, guest writes.
Bellingham School District did not accurately answer questions contained in the Environmental Checklist submitted as part of their application to build a new Options High School. I refer specifically to the Transportation Chapter of the Checklist, page 36, questions F and H.
A few years down the pike, people will exclaim, “How did this happen?” / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Dick Conoboy
May 18, 2016 Dick Conoboy
At the city council meeting on Monday evening several residents spoke to a number of issues that have arisen as the result of the Comprehensive Plan draft that was briefed earlier in the day to the Committee of the Whole. Continue reading
Lawsuit Served on Bellingham, Mayor, and Police in Racial Profiling Case / Press Release, Latino Advocacy
Click on image to view video in the Bellingham Racial Justice Facebook Group
May 16, 2016 Latino Advocacy
For Immediate Release
Lawsuit Served on Bellingham, Mayor, and Police in Racial Profiling Case
The community joins to highlight BPD’s racial profiling against Latinos, collaboration with immigration officials Continue reading
Uber: Supporting the Troops? / NorthwestCitizen, Dick Conoboy
The Next Veteran Uber Driver?Mon, May 16, 2016, 5:20 am Dick Conoboy
In the days when I was a service member in the 60s and 70s, there was the usual long row of used/new car lots, pawn shops, bars, fast food outlets and pay-day lenders along the highways leading to the front gate of almost every military installation.
Trump’s rally in Lynden: Will we get what we paid for? / Noisy Waters Northwest, Sandy Robson
Senator Doug Ericksen’s Facebook cover photo showing him on the stage, shaking hands with Donald Trump at a May 7, 2016, Trump rally, held at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, in Lynden, WA.
May 15, 2016 Sandy Robson
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and his campaign, chose Lynden, a small city in Northwest Washington, about 5 miles south of the U.S.-Canadian border, for his May 7, 2016 rally. Continue reading
‘We Draw The Line’ / Cascadia Weekly, The Gristle, Tim Johnson
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 Tim Johnson
‘WE DRAW THE LINE’: In a perfect storm of colliding media fronts, the story of the year was eclipsed by the story of the decade in a way that can perhaps only be understood as it unfolds in the story of the (new) century. Continue reading
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