Coming Soon to the Waterfront: More Dioxin and Toxic Waste

By Wendy Harris · Tue Mar 26, 2013

A beneficial reuse provision in the Waterfront District Sub-Area Plan would allow construction materials that are contaminated with bioaccumulative toxins.

Waterfront “Planned Action Ordinance” Limits Restoration and Public Input

By Wendy Harris · Tue Mar 26, 2013

The City Planning Department has included a technical document in the waterfront proposal without disclosing important impacts.

Read All About It! Cattlemen want slaughter.

By Tip Johnson · Sun Mar 24, 2013

Wherein the Cattlemen define ‘small scale’ as an unlimited number of facilities of up to 50 million live pounds per year.

Living Wage and Working Waterfront 101

By Tip Johnson · Sat Mar 23, 2013

Wherein the rate base gets a soaking while officials keep big-bubble toking

No City Housing Hearing on March 20

By John Servais · Tue Mar 19, 2013

The Bellingham Herald article today is wrong. There is no hearing tomorrow, March 20

Valuable Article in the Whatcom Watch

By John Servais · Sun Mar 17, 2013

Wendy Harris writes about the proposed $8 million concrete bridge along the Bellingham waterfront - using Greenways funds to build.

University Ridge Height Variance Hearing Postponed

By Dick Conoboy · Tue Mar 12, 2013

Several complaints to the city seem to have occasioned a postponement of a height variance hearing until a complete development proposal is submitted.

Closing Arguments in Defense of the Reconveyance

By · Mon Mar 11, 2013

Guest writer Shane Roth writes in favor of the reconveyance of Lake Whatcom land back to the county.

Again, we must “vote for the forest”.........or should we?

By · Fri Mar 8, 2013

Delaine Clizbe guest writes. Whatcom County has 7,100 acres of park land, with 1,900 acres actually developed. Yet we keep adding land, and not developing our parks.

Legislation and Sausage

By Tip Johnson · Tue Mar 5, 2013

Wherein it’s even worse when the legislation is about sausage