August 10, 2015 James Gibson
I haven’t made a post in about three months. I recently moved to a new house in Bellingham, and it took a while for the internet to be hooked up. Continue reading
Category Archives: Data
Questions of Fraud: Whatcom Conservation District Elections / Barbara Perry
Cartoon by Solly Perry
August 8, 2015 Barbara Perry
Are all Washington State District elections for the 47 Washington Conservation districts full of fraud?
These are the districts, mostly bound by county lines that “help citizens protect renewable resources through the use of voluntary, incentive based practices” in mostly all WA counties. Continue reading
How’s the Nooksack Doing? / Get Whatcom Planning, Jean Melious
Tropical salmon, photographed in the South Fork of the Nooksack. Salmon are very adaptable.
Thursday, July 30, 2015 Jean Melious
I’ve been out of town for most of July. From afar, I see that low water levels and high temperatures are killing off fish in the Columbia River, the Snake River in Idaho, and some rivers in Oregon. Continue reading
An Analysis of Whatcom County Jail Press Releases: Word Counts, Word Clouds, Relational Graphs, Criminogenic Cycles / Bellingham Politics and Economics, Ryan Matthew Ferris
Sunday, August 2, 2015 Ryan Matthew Ferris
The data below in this first part of this post comes front the collected booking records of the Whatcom County Inmate Database: Press Releases. Continue reading
Nooksack Water Thievery Redux / Naiads, Rachel Paschal Osborn
July 16, 2015 Rachael Paschal Osborn
As reported in our recent post, “The Tale of the Nooksack Nine,” the Department of Ecology went above and beyond its usual water mismanagement when — faced with clear evidence of illegal water diversions from the Nooksack River – the agency decided to issue permits, rather than penalty orders, to the culprits. Continue reading
Biodiversity: Why we need special focus to protect our land and ourselves / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk
5:20pm June 24, 2015 Wendy Harris
My comment to the county council requesting that the citizen science provisions be retained in the proposed wildlife advisory committee is attached. This committee was always intended (by me, at least) as something that would supplement that normal land use planning process. Continue reading
Connecting some dots between advocacy groups, individuals, and coal interests / Facebook post, Sj Robson
3 hrs June 24, 2015 Sj Robson
**Connecting some dots between advocacy groups, individuals, and coal interests relating to the June 22 pro-GPT panel forum hosted by Whatcom Business Alliance, and sponsored by Northwest Jobs Alliance and Keep Washington Competitive**
This post was first intended to be in response to a comment made by Wendy Harris [on Whatcom Hawk Facebook] about Washington Farm Bureau President John Stuhlmiller who was one of the panelists at the June 22 pro-GPT panel forum. Continue reading
Jail Roster Booking Chart Data for 2015 / Bellingham Politics and Economics, Ryan M. Ferris
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
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