Publish Date: 2016 - 2026

Cascadia Daily News to Begin In January

John Servais · Fri Aug 6, 2021

Bellingham to get a locally owned and professional daily news publication beginning in January 2022.

YouTube’s Subversion Of The Bellingham City Council

Dick Conoboy · Wed Aug 4, 2021

Playing along with YouTube is a losing game for Bellingham. It is time to break the ties that bind … and blind.

Our Public Property Rights For Sale - Cheap!

Tip Johnson · Tue Jul 27, 2021

Preserve public property rights & save the trail

Comcast for Your Small Business

Jon Humphrey · Sun Jul 25, 2021

Between the professional service of Comcast, and the “professionals” at COB, start training Carrier pigeons.

The Monumentally Moronic Mindlessness Of YouTube

Dick Conoboy · Sat Jul 24, 2021

It is time for Bellingham City Hall to take control by dumping YouTube for having taken down a video of a City Council meeting.

County Council Plays Politics With Our Judges

John Servais · Wed Jul 21, 2021

The Whatcom County Council is afraid to make an appointment of a temporary District Court judge before the Primary Election. Is the “fix” in?

North State Street Dormitory Open for Business Fall 2021

· Sat Jul 17, 2021

Yet another eyesore bunker-like building for bunking students at market rental rates.

Massive Excavation in Archeological Zone Permitted by City Hall

Tip Johnson · Thu Jul 15, 2021

The city granted building permits while the Planning Department knew this was a state historical Indian village site.

City Hall is Third World

John Servais · Tue Jul 13, 2021

Bellingham website goes dead with one person taking a few days off. So much for an administration and a system. Third world government.

Bye, Felicia

Jon Humphrey · Mon Jul 12, 2021

Effective, efficient and low cost, high speed broadband service continues to elude Bellingham and Whatcom County

Aliens Return Fairhaven’s Mail Collection Box

Dick Conoboy · Wed Jul 7, 2021

Bellingham continues to have its mail dropoff options changed willy-nilly.

CityView Private Dormitory Proposal Moving Into Third Year Of Consideration

Dick Conoboy · Tue Jul 6, 2021

Time to put the kibosh on the CityView private dormitory project for the good of the neighborhood and the good of the city.

Letter: Petition to Ban Teaching Critical Race Theory

Letter Writer · Sun Jul 4, 2021

Riley and Bryna Sweeney write about the petition to ban the teaching of Critical Race Theory in the Meridian School District.

The basics of Mayor Fleetwood’s attack on the Municipal Court

John Servais · Fri Jul 2, 2021

How Mayor Fleetwood and his city attorneys are violating the basic laws that our nation was founded and built upon.

Bellingham City Attorneys Removed from Muni Court Case by Judge

John Servais · Thu Jul 1, 2021

City attorney James Erb removed from legal case against Judge Lev for conflict of interest by Superior Court judge.

Whatcom Citizens for Responsible Technology

Jon Humphrey · Sat Jun 26, 2021

A new and local county wide technology group of Internet and broadband experts has been formed. Jon explains why and lists the members.

Aliens Abduct Bellingham Mail Collection Box

Dick Conoboy · Sat Jun 26, 2021

Mail collection boxes seem to be a thing of the past. Why have one postal vehicle collect from the boxes when hundreds of people can drive to the post office to mail a letter?

Letter: Municipal Court Controversy

Letter Writer · Thu Jun 24, 2021

Mary Kay Becker writes about the Bellingham Municipal Court Controversy

Bellingham Council Starts Process to Abolish Municipal Court

John Servais · Mon Jun 21, 2021

Tonight the Bellingham City Council - with no agenda notice - authorized the mayor to begin process to abolish the Bellingham Municipal Court

Save the Whales - Bellingham’s $40mm Padden Creek Joke

Tip Johnson · Sat Jun 19, 2021

What does a little stream matter? Spoiler alert! It’s not a joke and, if it were, it would not be a nice one.

District Judge David Grant Resigns

John Servais · Thu Jun 3, 2021

The presiding judge of Whatcom County District Court has suddenly resigned effective July first.

Memorial Day 2021

Dick Conoboy · Sun May 30, 2021

A day to remember the US service men and women who have passed away.

Bellingham Municipal Court Judge Lev Sues the City

John Servais · Fri May 28, 2021

Debra Lev, Bellingham’s municipal court judge, is suing Mayor Seth Fleetwood and the city

Your Chance NOW to Weigh In on the CityView Private Dormitory Development

Dick Conoboy · Thu May 27, 2021

City staff report outlines “issues” with megalithic CityView complex. You have a chance to comment.

An Anniversary…or an End Date?

· Sun May 23, 2021

Douglas Gustafson guest writes. Our two tiny home villages, and the possibility of a third, are in jeopardy. Do we need them?

Heron Colony Still Vulnerable to Development

John Servais · Wed May 19, 2021

Despite willing property sellers, and Fleetwood’s campaign promises, and the unanimous Greenways Committee vote …. sigh.

The Census: Protecting Privacy versus Creating Useless Data

David A. Swanson · Tue May 18, 2021

“Differential Privacy:” A statistical adjustment system that may render 2020 census population data unusable.

Why Participate?

Jon Humphrey · Mon May 17, 2021

An essay on climate change, millennials’ concerns, and large corporations and governments complacently stealing our kids futures.

WAVEing at Problems on the BAG

Jon Humphrey · Tue May 11, 2021

BAG - the Bellingham city hall Broadband Advisory Group is stacked in favor of mega corporations and against local public Internet service.

CityView Lives!

Dick Conoboy · Mon May 10, 2021

CityView, the project that will not die, will soon be subject to scrutiny during an extraordinary meeting of the Planning Commission.

State Defines “Family,” Bellingham’s Got It Wrong

Dick Conoboy · Mon May 10, 2021

New state legislation will cause cascade of changes to Bellingham’s codes

Variant Virus Strains Hit the County

Michael Riordan · Sat May 8, 2021

The more contagious and possibly more deadly B.1.1.7 and P.1 coronavirus strains appear to be leaking down into Whatcom County from British Columbia.

Mayor Is Asked To Preserve Trail

John Servais · Fri Apr 30, 2021

Daniel Kirkpatrick writes Mayor Fleetwood requesting he veto the council vacation of a street with a walking trail.

Affordable Housing Arrives At Bellingham’s Waterfront?

Dick Conoboy · Tue Apr 27, 2021

Ugly and expensive. That is what we have brought to the Waterfront.

Dead Or Alive? Schrödinger’s Public Banking Bill

Dick Conoboy · Sun Apr 18, 2021

SB 5188 to establish a Washington state Financial Cooperative is in an uncertain state in the legislature

Boulevard Park And Infrastructure: Another COB Missed Opportunity

Jon Humphrey · Mon Apr 5, 2021

Broken promises, bad administration, and still NO access to our publicly-owned resources

State Public Banking (Cooperative) Bill - Update on House Actions

Dick Conoboy · Sun Mar 28, 2021

Washington moves ever closer to public banking for the good of its citizens and the fiscal health of the state.

COB: Go Ahead, Discuss All You Want…

Jon Humphrey · Tue Mar 23, 2021

The advantage of an “advisory” group, (as in Broadband Advisory Group,) is that you don’t have to listen to them.

The Battle for Bellingham’s Tiny Homes

· Sat Mar 20, 2021

Doug Gustafson offers a point/counterpoint account of opposing strategies for tiny homes

A Variant Virus Outbreak in Whatcom County?

Michael Riordan · Fri Mar 12, 2021

Fourteen February cases of the B.1.1.7 variant coronavirus strain suggest that it is beginning to surge in the county.

State Public Banking (Cooperative) Bill Moves To The House

Dick Conoboy · Sun Mar 7, 2021

After clearing the Senate, Washington’s bill to create a public banking cooperative advances to the Democratically controlled House.

Masked Resistance

Riley Sweeney · Fri Mar 5, 2021

Riley shares some thoughts, concerns, and observations on the uncommon phenomenon of mask-wearing during this pandemic.

The Importance of Our Public Fiber Optic Infrastructure

· Wed Mar 3, 2021

Atul Deshmane guest writes and provides us with a resume of the internet infrastructure issues now being discussed in Bellingham

‘Public Banking Bill’ Voted Out Of Ways and Means Committee

Dick Conoboy · Tue Mar 2, 2021

Part of a series of articles on the progress of a public banking cooperative in Washington.

After worker victories, The Bellingham Herald’s union is in place

Ralph Schwartz · Tue Mar 2, 2021

With a recent dispute between the newspaper’s reporters and management over, the real work can begin.

Emergency Management

· Sat Feb 27, 2021

Garrett O’Brien guest writes about how Bellingham can learn from successful programs for the homeless elsewhere and would do well to abandon ineffectual approaches.

The Reality Of Zoom And Citizen Participation

Dick Conoboy · Sun Feb 21, 2021

City council and planning commission meetings were poor arrangements to begin with, and with Zoom it is very much worse.

Letter: Secretary of Department of Corrections

Letter Writer · Sat Feb 20, 2021

Irene Morgan writes a public letter to Governor Inslee about a new director of prisons

Public Banking For The State of Washington Inching Along

Dick Conoboy · Sat Feb 13, 2021

A substitute bill for the original SB 5188 was accepted and moved to the Ways and Means Committee for further consideration.

Ranked-Choice Voting – Let’s Keep It Moving

Stoney Bird · Fri Feb 12, 2021

Current legislation, moving forward in Olympia, would permit localities to adopt ranked-choice voting as an upgrade to their currently mandated top-two system.

Citizen journalism and NorthWest Citizen

John Servais, Fairhaven

Mon Apr 18, 2016

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