Sat, Aug 27, 2016, 5:00 am John Servais
High speed internet service to all residences and businesses in Bellingham could be quite inexpensive.
Category Archives: Online Publication
TOTEM POLE JOURNEY COMMENCEMENT (Bellingham) / totempolejourney.com, Richard Jehn
The commencement event for Totem Pole Journey 2016 was held at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship on Thursday, August 18 at 7 pm. Shasta Cano-Martin, Secretary of the Lummi Indian Business Council, Roxanne Murphy, Bellingham City Council member, and Carl Weimer, Whatcom County Council member spoke, as did RE Sources for Sustainable Communities manager Matt Petryni, Lummi Nation Sovereignty and Treaty Protection Office staff member, Dr. Kurt Russo, and Lummi Nation Tribal members Fred Lane and Jewell James.
Obamacare is Better – But than what? / NorthwestCitizen, Editor’s Blog, Tip Johnson
Thu, Aug 25, 2016, 5:00 am Tip Johnson
In the theory of market economics, government involvement should be limited to providing services the private sector can’t profitably or reliably provide.
Temper Tantrum Taints City Council / NorthwestCitizen, Dick Conoboy and Anne Mackie
After three minutes at city council you are cooked – or else!.[Note: This article was written by NWCitizen regular contributor, Dick Conoboy and by Anne Mackie, a community activist for 50 years. Her first encounter with authoritarianism was in 1966 when a bucket of mop water was thrown out the window of the Federal Court House building on Magnolia St. at a group of anti-war protesters that she was part of.]
Mon, Aug 15, 2016, 3:13 am // Dick Conoboy
The August 8 evening meeting of the Bellingham City Council must be viewed (video here) if you want to see the direction the city is taking on stifling citizen involvement in planning for our future.
Anti-Nuclear Weapons ship ‘Golden Rule’ to Visit / NorthwestCitizen, Guest writer, Ellen Murphy
The ‘Golden Rule’ today. Again drawing attention to U.S. nuclear weapons program.Ellen Murphy writes about efforts to bring attention to present day unnoticed trillion dollar upgrade of nuclear weapons.
Sat, Aug 13, 2016, 11:19 am Guest writer, Ellen Murphy
Did you go to the harbor in July to see the colonial-era tall ships and hear the cannons boom?
The Two Party System – Gack! / NorthwestCitizen, Editor’s Blog, Tip Johnson
Sat, Jul 23, 2016, 8:31 pm Tip Johnson
An astute political observer just brought this to my attention.
Clinton’s selection of unknown Kaine as running mate signals that Democrats are willing to throw the election to Republicans and Trump will likely be our next president – absent a resurgence of Sanders in a contested convention. Why would they do that?
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
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.
noisy waters northwest 
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