“Summer evenings, when the air’s real still, every one of those cows is kicking up dust with every step, manure dust,” Mr. Frantz said. “That cloud of dust can float right into your home, right over it, through the cracks. It’s manure that you’re breathing, not even dirt.” – From the NY Times article (above) by Beth Gardiner Continue reading
Category Archives: Commentary
Tacoma Immigrants Demand Moratorium on Deportations as Supreme Court Fails to End Partisan Attack on DAPA / Press Release, #Not1More/NW Resistance
June 23, 2016 Press Release, #Not1More/NW Resistance
Tacoma Immigrants Demand Moratorium on Deportations as Supreme Court Fails to End Partisan Attack on DAPA
What: Press Conference to React to Supreme Court Immigration Decision
Where: NWDC 1623 E J St, Tacoma WA
When: Thursday June 23 at 12PM PT
Who: NW Resistance, Community to Community, Surge Reproductive Justice and members of the immigrant community Continue reading
Comprehensive Plan process, City of Bellingham: revised schedule of work sessions / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Dick Conoboy
Click on the graphic to access COB Special Committee Of The Whole Meeting Agenda on the COB website.
For those of you who are following the Comprehensive Plan process for the City of Bellingham, there is a revised schedule of work sessions as the city council moves the sessions to the Committee of the Whole which meets in the afternoon. Continue reading
Seeking information for seeking reimbursement: A follow-up with officials on the Trump rally in Lynden / Noisy Waters Northwest, Sandy Robson
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addressing the crowd at the May 7, 2016, Trump political rally held at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds in Lynden, WA. Lynden Mayor Scott Korthuis is shown on the right. The photo is from a video posted on YouTube, featuring a full replay of the rally.
June 20, 2016 Sandy Robson
The information in this report is intended as a resource. It is comprised of my communications (via email and phone conversations) with some of the local elected officials and Lynden city officials, who were involved in the decisions which led to the Trump campaign rally being held at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds.
County PC Does Not Find Draft CAO Compliant With GMA (Yes, you read that correctly) / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
June 19, 2016 Wendy Harris
I just reviewed the [Whatcom] county planning commission’s final Critical Area Ordinance Findings of Fact, after the planning commission refused to sign off on one of the findings drafted by the planning department.. a very unusual occurrence. Continue reading
One Conversation at a Time, You Are All Making the World a Better Place / Daily Kos, James Wells
The Train Is Leaving The Track / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
June 16, 2016 Wendy Harris ACTION
I could not help the bad pun so please forgive me. But everyone should know that the county council is holding a special committee meeting of the whole next Tuesday, the 21st [of June 2016], only one week after their last meeting, for the purpose of going over more of the comp. plan chapters and apppendix. Continue reading
What’s Riddled With More Holes Than Cheese? / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
Excerpt from Whatcom County, WWC 16.16 Critical Areas Regulations, Draft Adopted by Whatcom County Planning Commission 06-09-2016. Click on graphic to access document.
What’s Riddled With More Holes Than Cheese?
All the exemptions, exceptions, conditional and allowed activities inside critical area habitat conservation areas (The CAO [Critical Areas Ordinance]).
You may not realize all the activities that are allowed when we are protecting biodiversity because they are found in two locations, the specific Article provisions for that type of critical area, and in Article 2, which applies generally to all critical areas. Continue reading
Orlando: not the “worst” shooting…and an opportunity to be better / Echoes, Charis Weathers
As with most Americans I awoke today to the news that our nation suffered “the worst mass shooting in US history.” In Orlando, FL, an armed man entered an LGBTQ nightclub, Pulse, on their Latin dance night, and killed at least 50 people with assault weapons. He was finally stopped when law enforcement rammed through the door in a tank and killed him.
Racism, Specisism and Perspective / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
This same point was really driven home to me by Lummi Nation a couple of years ago when DOE issued its proposal for clean up of the Whatcom Waterway. In discussing the cost/benefit analysis, it started since the time of colonization. The Lummis were upset that to white people (us), history began only at the moment they arrived. Continue reading
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