8 hrs August 5, 2015 Wendy Harris
Under the GMA, the city is required to consider Best Available Science in its CAO regulations. The BAS does not support elimination of buffers for small wetlands. Continue reading
Category Archives: Information
Potential New Software For Bellingham Police Department / Facebook post, Whatcom Hawk, Dick Conoboy
21 mins August 5, 2015 Dick Conoboy
Over the past several days I have had an exchange of emails with Chief Cook regarding this grant and the software it will purchase. Continue reading
Montana Mischief – U.S. Senate applies pressure to Cherry Point review / Cascadia Weekly, Tim Johnson
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Tim Johnson
Steve Daines is not happy with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and that agency’s decisions about the handling of the review process for the Gateway Pacific Terminal coal pier proposed for Cherry Point.[…] 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
a good read / The Boynton Blog
August 1, 2015 jik The Boynton Blog
Perhaps you were one of the 12,000 people who attended the AWP Annual Conference & Bookfair in Seattle in 2014. Continue reading
Whatcom County Jail: Another reason to examine costs / Facebook post, Joy Gilfilen
July 30 2015 Joy Gilfilen
Another reason to examine costs – check this article out. This is why many of our fully informed taxpayers will vote down the sales tax…and then we have to start figuring out how to downsize our punishment system. 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
GPT submitting “policy guidance” to Whatcom County on the Comprehensive Plan / Facebook Post, Sj Robson
3 hrs August 1, 2015 Sandy Robson
An example of the attempted manipulation of our Whatcom County land use policies by Gateway Pacific Terminal proponents and their advocacy groups is this July 24, 2015 letter from Northwest Jobs Alliance (AKA Gateway Pacific Terminal) to the Whatcom County Planning Commission. Continue reading
Are County and City Ignoring Risk, Failing to Plan For Oil Train Disaster? / Facebook Post, Whatcom Hawk, Wendy Harris
11 hrs August 1, 2015COMMUNITY ALERT:
Are County and City Ignoring Risk, Failing to Plan For Oil Train Disaster?
The county council is meeting this Tuesday and here is the agenda. There are a number of interesting items on the agenda, including modification to the proposal for an incarceration reduction task force. Continue reading
Overstocked Forest and Fire / Reading the Washington Landscape, Dan McShane
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Dan McShane
I know just enough about wildfire and land management to know I don’t know much. Its complicated stuff. Continue reading
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