By: John Servais

Publish Date: 1995 - 2026

Found: 1073 Articles

By John Servais · Wed Sep 23, 2020

4th Update posted. We will provide short updates to the article “Cougar Trapping … Maybe,” to keep you informed of the cougar’s status.

Cougar Trapping ... Maybe

By John Servais · Sun Sep 13, 2020

An effort to trap a cougar that has been hanging around the southside too long is in place.

We interrupt our writing on local issues…

By John Servais · Fri Sep 4, 2020

Not local, but we would be remiss to not speak out.

We Have Two Extra Ballot Drop Boxes!!

By John Servais · Wed Aug 26, 2020

Close questioning of the auditor’s office reveals the truth. Now the issue becomes, what will county leaders do with these two extra ballot drop boxes?

Ballot Drop Boxes: More are Needed

By John Servais · Sat Aug 22, 2020

Voters prefer drop boxes to ensure their ballots are counted, yet our county auditor thinks that is not true. The numbers are against her.

Drop Your Ballot In A Drop Box

By John Servais · Sat Aug 1, 2020

See link to map of Ballot Drop Boxes. It is too late now to mail your ballot. Postal Service is struggling. Drop your ballot in a Drop Box.

Racial Listening Sessions…or Tone Deaf?

By John Servais · Mon Jul 27, 2020

Whatcom Human Rights Task Force has sent an open letter to Mayor Fleetwood and Executive Sidhu expressing their concerns about the planned four Listening Sessions.

Cougar Inside Bellingham Yard

By John Servais · Tue Jul 21, 2020

No kidding, this mature cougar was casually prowling backyards inside the Bellingham city limits this past weekend.

Mayor Seth Fleetwood Lacks Understanding of Transparency

By John Servais · Wed Jun 10, 2020

Mayor Seth Fleetwood staff has fumbled their secretive effort to provide a replacement shelter to replace the Bellingham High School use.

Bellingham Herald Reprints Seattle Times Article - But With Edit

By John Servais · Fri May 29, 2020

How the Herald reports Bellingham news by reprinting articles from the Seattle Times - but cannot even do that honestly.

ACLU Files Suit for the Firing of Dr. Ming Lin

By John Servais · Thu May 28, 2020

The ACLU this morning filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination of Dr Lin, the emergency room doctor who spoke out about lack of safe procedutes at St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.

WWU - Western - Dislikes Trees

By John Servais · Mon May 4, 2020

Western Washington University seems to hate trees as they remove 48 more beautiful fir trees this week from the campus.

PeaceHealth Sets Up Straw Man of Dr Lin

By John Servais · Mon Apr 6, 2020

Wherein we pick our way through the evolving versions of the PeaceHealth letter/ad in Sunday’s Bellingham Herald. And cover their obsessive efforts to marginalize Dr Lin.

PeaceHealth Asks Doctors to Sign Letter

By John Servais · Thu Apr 2, 2020

Dr. Anna Dowling, chief of staff at St Joseph Hospital, is asking all doctors to sign a letter for public release, generally stating the hospital is doing everything correctly.

Dr Lin fired from St Joseph Hospital

By John Servais · Fri Mar 27, 2020

Update: We link to the video he has posted on YouTube. Dr Lin showed up for work and was promptly walked off the hospital campus. He is fired from his job as an ER doctor.

Faces of Health Care

By John Servais · Wed Mar 25, 2020

Faces of heros and those taking high risks. Health care workers are vital to our country as soldiers, police and fire fighters.

Down the Memory Hole

By John Servais · Wed Mar 25, 2020

We try to prevent the disturbance at Monday’s Bellingham City Council meeting from going down the memory hole.

Boots on the ground at St. Joseph Hospital

By John Servais · Wed Mar 25, 2020

Dr. Lin has returned to Bellingham’s St. Joseph Hospital and continues to give us his personal views on how the hospital is meeting the coronavirus epidemic.

Three ways to cover a whistleblower story

By John Servais · Fri Mar 20, 2020

How the Seattle Times, Bellingham Herald and this site, NWCitizen, reported on the issues raised in Dr. Ming Lin’s letter to Charles Prosper, the CMO of PeaceHealth.

Doctor Lin’s Letter

By John Servais · Wed Mar 18, 2020

Updated Sat, Mar 21: Dr. Ming Lin, a doctor at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham, wrote a letter to Charles Prosper, the chief managing officer of PeaceHealth.

Click graphic for an expanded view for reading.

Breaking: Lummi Island Ferry Agreement Reached

Negotiations have reached a conceptual agreement. Details this evening.

By John Servais · Thu Feb 4, 2010

1 min read

Breaking. County and Lummi reach agreement. Whatcom County Public Works posted a pdf this afternoon.

Tip Johnson just phoned this in. More this evening.

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Breaking: Lummi Island Ferry Agreement Reached

Breaking: Lummi Island Ferry Agreement Reached

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