By Stoney Bird · Sat Jan 28, 2017

Stoney Bird explains the Community Rights movement and notes a documentary movie about this showing in March in Anacortes and Bellingham

Mobile Phones Bad for Your Vision

By David Camp · Tue Jan 24, 2017

English Rugby Team vision consultant Sherylle Calder advises them to limit smart phone use.

No! I Will Not Round Up.

By Dick Conoboy · Mon Jan 23, 2017

Preliminary but incomplete statistics on inspections in the York Neighborhood.

“Gort, America barada nikto”

By Dick Conoboy · Thu Jan 19, 2017

There is no Gort to save us.

The Unconscionable State of Our Rentals

By Dick Conoboy · Wed Jan 18, 2017

Rental inspections are providing a window into the condition of rentals and the view is outrageous.

Senators Murray and Cantwell Work for the Pharma Cartel, Not For You

By David Camp · Tue Jan 17, 2017

A brief expose of who our Senators actually work for.

Those Inalienable Rights And Your Job

By Dick Conoboy · Wed Jan 11, 2017

How much have we ceded our rights in the workplace? David Ellerman tells us…a lot!

Everything is Temporary

By David Camp · Tue Jan 10, 2017

A brief essay on the transience of all things.

Whatcom County Water Use: When and Why

By Eric Hirst · Sat Jan 7, 2017

Eric Hirst writes an overview of seasonal water use in Whatcom County - and supports his views with a well researched report that he also wrote.

Coming for your wallet - That persistent jail thing

By Tip Johnson · Thu Jan 5, 2017

Wherein citizens snooze, they lose

Stop Talking About Trump!

By Dick Conoboy · Wed Jan 4, 2017

This blather about Trump is not getting done what needs to be done to take the country back from the oligarchs.

Michael Lilliquist Elected Bellingham City Council President

By John Servais · Wed Jan 4, 2017

After seven years on the city council, Michael Lilliquist is elected president for the 2017 year. Recognition long overdue.

City of B’ham Should not be Incinerating Sewage Sludge

By David Camp · Tue Jan 3, 2017

A brief primer on the options for handling sewage sludge, and how B’ham has chosen the worst, from a planetary perspective.

Traffic Backups on Northbound I-5 from Lake Samish - Into First Week of 2017

By John Servais · Mon Jan 2, 2017

Both lanes of I-5 northbound are fully open this morning past the rock slide area. It does not look like they will close again. See article for more info.

That Big, Flat, Rural Jail or Regional Detention Center?

By Tip Johnson · Thu Dec 29, 2016

Wherein the serpent struggles to remain unnoticed

It’s STILL The Derivatives, Stupid

By Dick Conoboy · Wed Dec 28, 2016

Five of the largest banks in the U.S. have exposure to hundreds of trillions in bad investments and derivatives, while our savings accounts are woefully under-insured.

Lummi Island Ferry Out of Service with Broken Steering

By John Servais · Wed Dec 28, 2016

Fresh from a half-million-dollar maintenance job this September, the 68 year old ferry has broken down again; out of service at 9 p.m. Tuesday night for repairs.

How the Grinches Stole the Post Office from Fairhaven

By John Servais · Fri Dec 23, 2016

How a grinch - and maybe two of them - are callously causing the post office of over 100 years to close in Fairhaven, an historic community on the south edge of Bellingham.