By: Tip Johnson

Publish Date: 1995 - 2026

Found: 239 Articles

Poop - Bellingham’s Billion Dollar Boondoggle

By Tip Johnson · Mon Jul 27, 2009

This week’s “Gristle”, by Cascadia Weekly Editor Tim Johnson, includes this electoral season’s first substantive issue to appear in local print media <a href=”http://www.nwcitizen.us/entry/bell

Red Herring, Red Threat and A Red Letter Opportunity

By Tip Johnson · Fri Mar 20, 2009

Red Herring

Shame on Obama, shame on Congress. Why punish workers while bailing out their bosses? The recent frenzy to demonize the employees of AIG is a more than a little disturbing.

Obama? Oh, bomb ya!

By Tip Johnson · Mon Jan 26, 2009

Welcome to a new era of diplomacy! It may not necessarily be kinder and gentler, but it sure looks like it could be more impersonal. Obama has affirmed the recent military policy of using unmanned dr

Chuckanut Ridge: What Way Forward?

By Tip Johnson · Sun Jan 25, 2009

Any public issue that garners nearly two decades of ardent citizen activism ought to eventually be perceived as significant. But a form of fatigue peculiar to public affairs tends to gradually margina

Obama: On Shovels, Banks and Wars

By Tip Johnson · Sat Jan 17, 2009

Obama hasn’t any choice but to put “revitalizing the economy” at the top of his agenda. It could be a problem. Sure, everyone wants to keep their jobs or their business. They want to meet their mor

Blagojevich: Killed or Captured

By Tip Johnson · Sat Jan 10, 2009

Early in the reign of “W”, following the announcement of his “War on Terra”, we soon became familiar with the now famous phrase, “kill or capture”. It seems significant that it didn’t emerge as “capt

Obamarama: Advent of trickle-up economics?

By Tip Johnson · Tue Dec 2, 2008

The spectacle of Obama will soon begin to unfold as unprecedented popularity comes face to face with unprecedented difficulties. Another writer on these pages has already announced the potential for

Just Don’t Want to Hear About It?

By Tip Johnson · Sat Nov 22, 2008

An observant NWCitizen agent noticed this morning that the Herald may have a new policy regarding controversial issues that involve their favored advertisers.

The Port and City of Bellingham ha

Stand and Deliver!

By Tip Johnson · Tue Nov 18, 2008

The title phrase will remind many of the 1988 film portraying the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school mathematics teacher, starring Edward James Olmos. Historians will recognize it as th

The Fundamentals are Sound?

By Tip Johnson · Mon Oct 6, 2008

Who plundered the economy? What happened to all the wealth? Should Americans feel shame at having recklessly squandered their children’s future with imprudent borrowing?

Not long ago, as our

Phoenix in theTarpit - The politics of deception

By Tip Johnson · Fri Sep 26, 2008

Big problems require big solutions, quick. If bipartisan cooperation in major policy changes is needed, then so be it. Democrats will reach across the aisle and…get sucker punched!

This cou

Pitbull with Lipstick?

By Tip Johnson · Thu Sep 4, 2008

Sarah Palin made her big splash to a receptive crowd last night at the Republican National Convention. We’ll see how well it plays with those not already so predisposed.

One thing is for sure:

Could What We Don’t Know Hurt Us?

By Tip Johnson · Wed Aug 6, 2008

BELLINGHAM BAY DOESN’T MIX

In 1957, E. N. Steele documented the effects of pulp mill pollution on native oyster stocks in “The Rise and Decline of the Olympia Oyster”.

Unaffordable Housing?

By Tip Johnson · Wed Jul 30, 2008

Today’s Bellingham Herald has an interesting article on a report recently released by the Countywide Housing Affordability Task force.

Crackdown

By Tip Johnson · Mon Jul 7, 2008

In the run-up to this fourth of July, there were articles in the local daily and a fair amount of discussion about fireworks. Word was that the local constabulary were poised for a crackdown. Judgin

The Balkanization of the Waterfront

By Tip Johnson · Fri Jun 6, 2008

I watched with horror the channel 10 viewing of the last Waterfront Advisory Group - or whatever they are now called. This group is reviewing the ongoing planning of the former G-P properties,

Neiner, Neiner - The private benefits of avoiding public dialog

By Tip Johnson · Sun Apr 13, 2008

The dialog over the proposed Fairhaven Highlands development has deteriorated into a childish “neiner-neiner” squabble. Opponents continuously propose a host of rational objections while a few propon

Windfall Non-profits?

By Tip Johnson · Mon Mar 10, 2008

In 1969, Scott Stodola and Kendall Frazier founded the Bellingham Cooperative School. The School was housed in a variety of locations, including Fairhaven College and the golf course club hous

A Southside Grange?

By Tip Johnson · Thu Mar 6, 2008

I recently met with local and state officers from the Washington State Grange. These remarkably grass-rooted, family-oriented organizations can be formed with as few as 13 members. At least f

The Predatory Universe of Non-Profits in Happy Valley

By Tip Johnson · Mon Feb 11, 2008

Something about Bellingham’s poverty brings out the worst, even in the best of us.

The Kulshan Land Trust ushered it’s presence into Happy Valley with the development

Batten Down the Hatches!

By Tip Johnson · Wed Oct 12, 2016

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Warning: Major Storms Threaten the Pacific Northwest.

Nuff said.

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