By: Tip Johnson

Publish Date: 1995 - 2026

Found: 239 Articles

By Tip Johnson · Thu Feb 7, 2008

Today’s Herald features a local story entitled, “Mayor taking tougher stance with Port on waterfront”. It’s high time someone started considering the City’s interests in this fiasco!<br

Stimulating the Economy

By Tip Johnson · Tue Feb 5, 2008

I’m amazed at the response our Administration and Congress have taken toward news that the economy might be in trouble. Their idea is to write a bunch of checks to spur consumer spending. Tha

Correction Direction

By Tip Johnson · Tue Feb 5, 2008

I took a little heat from one of our new councilmembers, who took issue with yesterday’s piece, “Continuing Parlor Tricks”. Therein, I used a bad choice of words, suggesting final action might

Continuing Parlor Tricks

By Tip Johnson · Mon Feb 4, 2008

The Herald’s utility as an organ for community information is sometimes sorely tested - especially when things get controversial or confusing. Of course, it’s not that they don’t want citizens

When Is Less More?

By Tip Johnson · Sat Feb 2, 2008

When Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are prepared, more than one development model might be evaluated. But a no-action alternative is always required as a baseline reference. Convention

Unreported Mob - The Foes of Fairhaven Highlands

By Tip Johnson · Thu Jan 17, 2008

Hundreds of citizens last night descended on Municipal Court in solidarity with the Hundred Acre Woods to express their opposition to Horizon Bank’s potentially disastrous development now calle

Save the Woods?

By Tip Johnson · Wed Jan 16, 2008

Or how to mitigate the illegitimacies of Fairhaven Highlands, AKA Chuckanut Ridge and the Hundred Acre Woods. Sorry, I didn’t have time to write something short!

Liberals all too often get in their own way

By Tip Johnson · Wed Oct 31, 2007

I prefer to “label” myself radical, as compared with liberal. I struck upon the notion lobbying in Washington, D.C.

There, I painfully learned that liberals don’t understand the basics of busin

Servais hasn’t endorsed Stan Snapp

By Tip Johnson · Thu Oct 25, 2007

V - Stan Snapp - Don’t ask me why Servais hasn’t endorsed Stan Snapp. Here’s a guy that has worked his way up and tirelessly served his community, who has broad popular support and plent

I have issues

By Tip Johnson · Sun Oct 21, 2007

Personalities, not issues have dominated this election cycle. It’s not that there are no issues to discuss. It’s just that our democracy has apparently developed lazy habits. The digital revolu

Joint City-County Lake Whatcom Advisory Committee

By Tip Johnson · Tue Oct 9, 2007

Starting in the mid-eighties, when I was on the City Council, I sat on the original Joint City-County Lake Whatcom Advisory Committee, comprised of elected officials from both City and County as well

Piecemeal Planning - Popping Poison Pills

By Tip Johnson · Wed May 23, 2007

Unpleasant material is messily whapping its way through the whirling blades in neighborhoods throughout town as the City attempts to patch together a fatally flawed beginning to their Comprehensive Pl

Northern Neighborly News

By Tip Johnson · Mon May 7, 2007

Results from the first political forum of the season are now available online. Many thanks to the Northern Neighbors for organizing the event and providing such a great public resource. Seasoned polit

Watershed in Crisis - Drink up!

By Tip Johnson · Mon May 7, 2007

The new annual report on The Lake Whatcom Reservoir confirms that the quality of the water supply for half of the county’s population is deteriorating. An article in today’s Bellingham Herald points t

The Port’s Plan to Poison

By Tip Johnson · Thu Apr 26, 2007

Why the Log Pond cap won’t work

An article in a recent Bellingham Business Journal detailed the debate over whether the toxic muck in the Whatcom Waterway ought to be dredged or capped.

Bee where? Beware!

By Tip Johnson · Wed Apr 25, 2007

I have some large, beautiful pear trees at home. Spring is a glorious time, when they are festooned with blossom and the air is sweet with their scent. I have had occasion to observe these trees for o

Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

By Tip Johnson · Tue Apr 24, 2007

All the fuss over whether the “surge” is a credible strategy, whether or not to schedule a troop withdrawal from Iraq or continue funding the war kinda misses the main point with which Americans still

Reclusive Representative - Persecution by Proxie

By Tip Johnson · Tue Apr 24, 2007

Our invisible Congressman, Rick Larsen, has finally had his way with that pesky protester, Ellen Murphy. In order to ensure his privacy from prying constituents, Larsen had the local constabulary haul

Bloodbath in Iraq

By Tip Johnson · Mon Apr 23, 2007

According to the Washington Post, “President Bush warned Thursday that pulling out of Iraq too soon would trigger a bloodbath akin to that of the Cambodian killing fields of the 1970s, while Senate Ma

The So-called News

By Tip Johnson · Mon Apr 23, 2007

Independent media? Freedom of the press? Peoples friend, tyrants foe? It was a good idea while it lasted, educating the electorate and forming a mainstay of our democracy. Now, we’ve either elected Bu

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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