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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Alaska Ferry “Columbia” is stuck in Bellingham waiting for repairs. The Columbia did not sail last Friday at 6 pm when scheduled for its weekly departure to Ketchikan, Alaska. The bowthruster mechanism was broken. Parts have been ordered and it is hoped it can sail this Friday - but it may not be until February that it is able to depart for Alaska. It is docked at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal in Fairhaven for all of this week.
Pinky Vargas
Pinky Vargas announces for state senate
Bellingham City Council representative Pinky Vargas, announced on Saturday that she will run for the state Senate seat in the 42nd District which is most of Whatcom County. This seat is currently held by Doug Ericksen. It is unknown what his plans are. Doug recently changed his mind about a job offer by the Federal EPA in Seattle. While some have said the Herald jumped the gun, the facts we have gotten from very reliable sources is Ericksen learned he would have to quit his state Senate seat and reversed his decision. His state Senate seat provides him and his family with very fine health coverage.
The state senate race is an example of a Cornelian Dilemna. Ericksen? Vargas? Vargas? Ericksen? Ericksen? Vargas? Both lead you where you do not want to go. It makes one’s head spin. Running full speed into a wall will stop the spinning, at least temporarily, but it won’t stop the election. SAD.
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