Recent NWCitizen Articles

Re-Elect Michael Lilliquist

By Tip Johnson · Mon Oct 6, 2025

Bellingham 6th Ward city council seat has Michael Lilliquist running for re-election.

Whatcom County Democratic Party Corruption

By John Servais · Sat Oct 4, 2025

Lisa Anderson exposes dishonesty and bias in local Dems candidate endorsement process.

What Is the City of Bellingham Hiding?

By Janet Migaki · Wed Oct 1, 2025

A development on the steep hillsides of Chuckanut Bay - with no environmental study. Really?

Medicare Advantage As Elder Abuse

By Dick Conoboy · Mon Sep 1, 2025

Knowingly encouraging Medicare recipients to move to the confiscatory Medicare (Dis)Advantage is abusive

WWU: What Could Have Been

By John Servais · Sat Aug 30, 2025

It didn’t need to be Town vs. Gown

Fundraising Through Extortion

By Jon Humphrey · Wed Aug 27, 2025

Is extortion the new method of fundraising in Bellingham?

Subdued Excitement? Or...

By Lisa E. Papp · Sun Aug 24, 2025

Is Bellingham really The City of Subdued Excitement? Or is it The City of Poor Choices, Pretend Progressives, and Missed Opportunities?

CoB Public Fiber Lease Exists!

By Jon Humphrey · Wed Aug 20, 2025

Whatcom Transit Authority holds a lease on our public fiber. We need to demand access to these resources that we’ve already paid for.

Playing With Fire

By Tom Dohman · Mon Aug 18, 2025

Allowing recreational bonfires in Bellingham’s wooded residential areas is asking for disaster

"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"

By David A. Swanson · Mon Jul 28, 2025

Will our declining birth rates be the end of us? Or will it be something quicker?

Historic Port Vote

By Tip Johnson · Fri Jul 18, 2025

30 Years Later, Port OKs Commission Expansion Vote - but maybe with a poison pill

Turning Traditional Medicare Into Medicare (Dis)Advantage...From Within

By Dick Conoboy · Tue Jul 15, 2025

There is a "pilot" program, about to be in effect in six states, to reduce costs by requiring prior authorization for procedures for Traditional Medicare patients.

Finally! Lane Striping for Samish Overpass

By Tom Dohman · Thu Jul 10, 2025

Long awaited and much needed, this busy intersection will finally have some concrete guidance for drivers.

What happened to the “…for the people” part?

By Jon Humphrey · Mon Jul 7, 2025

Rule of Law? Hah!

Is That the Way This Works? Really??

By Barbara Plaskett · Mon Jun 2, 2025

Planning Commission member and voice for the city’s low-income, Barbara Plaskett, was a shoe-in for a second term—until three city council members sank her. What did she do “wrong?”