Recent NWCitizen Articles

Jail Reform: Music to My Ears
By Tip Johnson · Sun Feb 14, 2016
Wherein sanity may finally be approaching a nagging jail issue
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Debt Crisis Redux
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 10, 2016
Redistricting: Democrats may have upper hand
By Ralph Schwartz · Tue Feb 9, 2016
Republicans and Democrats traded barbs on the first day of the Districting Committee, but Dems may have won the first battle.
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Stop the Rental Fires Now!
By Dick Conoboy · Mon Feb 8, 2016
Inspections of rentals cannot begin too soon. Seven fires in rental units since 2011 and almost half with ONE landlord. No but the clock may be running out.
Super Bowl 50 - Wretched Excess
By Dick Conoboy · Fri Feb 5, 2016
From all the monumentally boring hoopla to the shameful rousting of the homeless Super Bowl 50 exceeds all expectations for greed and excess.
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Our unconscious racism
By John Servais · Thu Feb 4, 2016
Harriet Spanel has passed on
By John Servais · Wed Feb 3, 2016
Harriet Spanel was many years our representative in the state legislature and served Whatcom County and Bellingham very well.
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Mayor Picks Lisa Anderson for City Planning Commission
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 3, 2016
Lisa Anderson will fill the remaining term of real estate broker, Cerise Noah. who left the Bellingham Planning Commission several months ago.
In White Skin
By Ralph Schwartz · Mon Feb 1, 2016
Talib Kweli played the Wild Buffalo a couple evenings ago and Ralph Schwartz was there. He writes a very personal take on the evening.
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Say Nein to Uber
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Jan 31, 2016
Uber has started a new type of public taxi service in many cities, including Bellingham. It is controversial.
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WA State Minimum Wage Initiative - A Race To The Bottom
By Dick Conoboy · Mon Jan 18, 2016
Raising the minimum wage to $13.50/hr by 2020 cements workers into permanent slave wages that cannot pay the bills.
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Eagles on the Nooksack
By John Servais · Mon Jan 11, 2016
They are less famous than the eagles on the Skagit but closer to Bellingham, fewer people and still lots of eagles. A great January afternoon outing.
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Earthquake lightly shakes Bellingham
By John Servais · Wed Dec 30, 2015
Earthquake near San Juan Island felt in Bellingham late Tuesday night
Kremen & Weimer tell us of Clinton & Sanders
By · Tue Dec 29, 2015
What the campaign styles of local politicians Pete Kremen and Carl Weimer tell us about presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders
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