June 10, 2016 Press Release, Familias Unidas por la Justicia
Increase Gained Not Enough
Familias Unidas por la Justicia Members Will Continue the Fight for Fair Wages and Union Contract Continue reading
Category Archives: Commentary
What’s Wrong With Whatcom County Habitat? / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
Habitat Conservation Areas (HCA), (also referred as Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas FWHCA), are one of the 5 types of critical areas that are protected under the Critical Area Ordinance mandated by the Growth Management Act. Continue reading
A Roundabout Way, Lummi seeks road improvements / Cascadia Weekly, Tim Johnson
Lummi Nation wants to improve transportation just south of Ferndale, but the City of Ferndale is having no part of it. Continue reading
Options High School: Great idea, wrong site / NorthwestCitizen, Guest Writer, Tim Paxton
Mon, Jun 06, 2016, 5:03 pm Guest writer, Tim Paxton
Tim Paxton guest writes. Tim’s testimony and evidence caused the Hearing Examiner to deny permits for Options HS last week. Tim knows of what he writes.
We are all in favor of educating all of Bellingham’s children but we demand our schools are safe. Continue reading
Attempt to build North America’s largest coal terminal faces another huge setback / Facebook Post, Lummi Communications
Lummi tribal members reef net fishing. One of two photos included with Lummi Press Release.
June 6, 2016 Lummi Nation PRESS RELEASE
Lummi Nation praises Wash. Department of Natural Resources’ decision to uphold treaty rights and deny lease Continue reading
Vested interests commenting on Millenium Bulk Terminals / Facebook post, Sj Robson
June 5, 2016 Sandy Robson
The Bellingham Herald reported [in “Anti-coal activists, coal port supporters clash in Tri-Cities” on June 3]: “Millennium organized employees and other supporters to tout the economic benefits of the $680 million privately-funded project.” Continue reading
Greenways may reverse heron colony buffer purchase this evening / NorthwestCitizen, John Servais
Agenda for June 2 Greenways Advisory Committee
Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 3:00 pm John Servais
This evening, Tuesday, June 2, at 7 pm, the Greenways Advisory Committee will meet at the Bellingham Municipal Court Building. On the agenda is basically one item – an executive session and followup public vote on a land acquistion issue. Continue reading
We need to protect our Great Blue Heron colony / NorthwestCitizen, John Servais
A Great Blue Heron on its way back to the colony in south Bellingham. It is building or improving its nest in preparation for laying eggs in early spring. Our thanks to Alan Fritzberg for use of his photos.
Tue, May 31, 2016, 9:51 pm John Servais
The Greenways Advisory Committee voted unanimously in early May to provide partial funding from their available free funds to purchase the platted but unbuilt house sites bordering the Great Blue Heron colony in south Bellingham.
BP Refinery’s controlled information and ‘controlled shutdown’: My phone call to BP refinery last night / Facebook post, Sandy Robson
I called BP’s environmental hotline last evening, telling the woman who answered the phone call that I was hearing a rumbling noise that I have never heard before coming seemingly from BP Refinery, and the flares were going off and on, and it looked like it was some operation or something that is not normally going on at BP. Continue reading
Economic Development Goal: Something’s Missing / Facebook Post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
May 31, 2016 Wendy Harris ACTION
[Wendy originally made this post on Whatcom Hawk, but added the following additional text when she reposted it in the Bellingham Racial Justice Coalition Facebook group: Continue reading
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