By: Tip Johnson

Publish Date: 1995 - 2026

Found: 239 Articles

By Tip Johnson · Wed Apr 18, 2007

New Whatcom Redevelopment Project - The City and Port of Bellingham will hold public information a meeting. Bellingham Cruise Terminal. 355 Harris Ave., Bellingham. WA Times: 6:00 PM.

Also, th

Poisoning the Public - A treacherous legacy

By Tip Johnson · Wed Apr 18, 2007

According to the Bellingham Herald, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources has recently approved leaving tons of mercury buried in Bellingham Bay. The documents are not yet readily avail

What a bunch of hooey!

By Tip Johnson · Wed Feb 14, 2007

The Pentagon, after weeks of delay, finally trotted out the “irrefutable evidence” that Iran is supplying deadly weapons to Iraqi “insurgents”. Wow! They produced two tables of weaponry with Iranian m

Moving Target

By Tip Johnson · Mon Dec 11, 2006

One of the more momentous public hearings in Bellingham’s history appears to be ready to pass with more than the ordinary confusion. We wrote about some of the mis/disinformation earlier.

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Global Warming, Record Lows - Fiddling while Rome burns

By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 30, 2006

Public Process - Lots of it (kind of),

By Tip Johnson · Mon Nov 27, 2006

or I lied (sort of!)

In the previous post I complained that the biggest rip-off in Whatcom County history was happening without even being discussed or making it into the news. Well, I lied. To

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 26, 2006

The good? We are no longer spewing forty+ pounds of mercury vapor every day into the local atmosphere. We are no longer dumping 20 to 40 tons of polluted solid waste into our bay, ravines and gravel p

Long Run

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006

Milton Friedman died at 94 years of age last week. Friedman was the maverick economist who implemented monetarist policies beginning with the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. As

Torturous topics

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006

While we’re being proud to be Americans, don’t forget that George Bush just pushed through legislation that makes it legal for our boys at Abu Ghraib to have tortured and makes it legal for them to ke

Welcome to America!

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006

Protesting and dissent is no longer supervised by the police. It is actively escalated to violence, punished and prosecuted. This snippet is about a fellow rotting in jail as the result of his journal

Let them vote on it?

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006

Zetta Bracher, President of the local Democratic Women’s Club, has an idea for getting consensus on our “new direction” in Iraq.

When it became apparent that there were no weapons of mass destr

Hot Button

By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 16, 2006

The war in Iraq is widely regarded to have been the “hot button” issue of the last election. I don’t buy it. Americans seem to like a good fight. After all, we get into a lot of them. The problem with

Plenty more to flush

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 12, 2006

Bellingham’s new, old mayor, Tim Douglas, got off to a great running start at his new job by dealing quickly and firmly with an important issue that threatened to embarrass the City forever - the form

Killers or Healers?

By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 9, 2006

Congratulations, Americans. That was certainly worth voting for! Voters thoroughly routing the entrenched Neo-Con administration will help restore our world image, so badly damaged since re-electing t

Electile Dysfunction

By Tip Johnson · Mon Nov 6, 2006

Nope. I didn’t make it up. It’s from the subtitle of a book by Steve Bhaerman, under the pen name Swami Beyondananda. I have to admire the guy. At least he can laugh about it. But Americans should do

The 16% Solution

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 5, 2006

Results from the 17th year of a poll routinely taken by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News show that only 16 percent approve of the job Congress is doing. 52 percent of those polled said they’d pref

Swirling Logo

By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 5, 2006

Hopefully the City’s new swirling logo will flush itself before it ends up glued on vehicles and emblazoned on letterhead. It’s horrible, but that’s only half the story. And we will probably never get

The Truth Fairy

By Tip Johnson · Sat Nov 4, 2006

Heading into the last days of this election season, George Bush and his Neo-Con Republicans have been strumming a familiar tune to promote their candidates. Republicans, they say, will

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My name is Tip Johnson.

By Tip Johnson · Fri Nov 3, 2006

Gentle readers,

My name is Tip Johnson. The usual editor of this publication has asked me to fill in for a bit while he is busy with other matters. Some of you have already written, following h

Batten Down the Hatches!

By Tip Johnson · Wed Oct 12, 2016

1 min read

Warning: Major Storms Threaten the Pacific Northwest.

Nuff said.

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