Recent NWCitizen Articles

The Audio of the Pipeline Explosion

Below is an audio tape of 911 calls, emergency responders’ radio communications, and local radio coverage from June 10, 1999 when Whatcom Creek exploded in Bellingham

By John Servais · Sat Jun 8, 2024

Court Process for Defining Whatcom

Water Rights Begins

Whatcom County's confusing water rights will be defined by court proceedings beginning now

By James Davenport · Mon Jun 3, 2024

Memorial Day 2024 - Remembering My

Friends

If not killed-in-action, they are still dying from the effects of their service in Vietnam.

By Dick Conoboy · Sat May 25, 2024

More Broadbandwashing and Anti-Voter

Secrecy

The foam of secrecy hides all.

By Jon Humphrey · Sat May 25, 2024

Water Rights

Local presentations scheduled on a reasonable use framework for water resource management

By Tip Johnson · Thu May 2, 2024

A Resolution to Make Sure Nothing Gets

Done

Broadband-Washing: Greenwashing the Internet

By Jon Humphrey · Tue Apr 9, 2024

Moving Back from the Brink

Pacific Northwest organizers join a global campaign to abolish all nukes and push for a city council resolution to start

By Gene Marx · Fri Apr 5, 2024

Medicare (Dis)Advantage - Even

Hospitals Don’t Like It.

If the hospitals are smelling a rat, so should Medicare (Dis)Advantage victims (AKA enrollees).

By Dick Conoboy · Sun Mar 31, 2024

The $5 Trillion National Infrastructure

Bank Is Looking Better Every Day

With such a bank in place, we would likely not be scrambling around and asking Congress for rebuild monies, as we are now with the catastrophic event involving the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024.

By Dick Conoboy · Wed Mar 27, 2024

Scrap metal shipping from Port dock

ends this summer

Port of Bellingham commissioners terminate last 13 years of ABC Recycling lease

By John Servais · Mon Mar 25, 2024

COB - Your Interests vs. Corporate

Interests

No public fiber means we can’t compete with big telecom. EVER.

By Jon Humphrey · Mon Mar 18, 2024

The Insidious Creep of Medicare

(Dis)Advantage

Crappier coverage for us, even more money for insurance companies.

By Carol Kemp · Sun Feb 25, 2024

Firing Up the War Machine

Who benefits? Palestinians are being slaughtered. Genocide. Gaza is being leveled.

By Dianne Foster · Fri Feb 9, 2024

Three Wise Men?

The Port Commission has decreed that Bellingham’s waterfront will remain a toxic, festering sore

By Tip Johnson · Tue Jan 9, 2024

The ABC Recycling Hook

We needed a hook, and we think we found it.

By David Netboy · Tue Dec 26, 2023

Dementors attack the Sehome Neighborhood

"Sweet Jesus,” shrieked the thralls of the Sehomus Republic,as ABC the Yochlowitz,successor to GorgoPacificus the Destroyer,forced them to call upon the nomadic advocatusto loose the girdle of

By David A. Swanson · Fri Dec 8, 2023

Just What We Need - A Bank in Fairhaven