Recent NWCitizen Articles

Anchor-chain activists face hefty fines
Ralph Schwartz · Thu Feb 18, 2016
The Coast Guard has levied $30,000 in fines on two Bellingham climate activists. They will fight to have the fines dropped.
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Jail Reform: Music to My Ears
Tip Johnson · Sun Feb 14, 2016
Wherein sanity may finally be approaching a nagging jail issue
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Debt Crisis Redux
Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 10, 2016
Redistricting: Democrats may have upper hand
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!
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
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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Harriet Spanel has passed on
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
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
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
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
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
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
John Servais · Wed Dec 30, 2015
Earthquake near San Juan Island felt in Bellingham late Tuesday night

Dave Stanbrough

Commenting Since Dec 9, 2023
Retired 2002 USFWS Refuge Manager , NW Pacific Region, Oregon. Served on wildlife refuges in Oklahoma, Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Oregon. Total 26 years civil and 4 years Navy. Vietnam veteran 1964-68. BS in Wildlife Ecology, Oklahoma State University, 1976.

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