By: Elisabeth Britt

Reality Just Got Less…True
By Elisabeth Britt · Tue Oct 18, 2022
With the advent of deepfakes, the line between reality and fantasy just dissolved. Elizabeth Britt considers some consequences.
4 min read · 3 comments
Washington State Senator Simon Sefzik
By Elisabeth Britt · Tue Jan 11, 2022
The Whatcom County Council today appointed Simon Sefzik to fill the remaining 10 months of the senate seat for the 42nd District.
2 min read · 1 comment
COVID-19 Internment Camps
By Elisabeth Britt · Tue Jan 11, 2022
Wherein Elisabeth carefully explains the facts behind this latest freakout by conservative political agitators
4 min read · 2 comments
Douglas Ave. Trail vs. the American Disability Act
By Elisabeth Britt · Sat Sep 11, 2021
Despite ADA requirements, proposed trail has no provisions for people with disabilities.
6 min read · 3 comments
Seattle Times to Doug Ericksen: Step Down
By Elisabeth Britt · Sun May 19, 2019
Unprincipled Whatcom County State Senator Doug Ericksen is urged to resign. Britt and Riordan first broke the news of his Cambodia hijinks on NW Citizen.
3 min read · 8 comments
What on Earth Is Doug Ericksen Doing In Cambodia?
By Elisabeth Britt · Sat Jul 28, 2018
Doug Ericksen and Vincent Buys are in Cambodia as we post this. What are these two Washington State 42nd Legislative District elected officials doing in Cambodia? What indeed!
4 min read · 11 comments
Updatd: County Council May Try End Run on State Legislature
By Elisabeth Britt · Tue Feb 6, 2018
Updated: Our Whatcom County Council is considering an ordinance tomorrow that will gut the provisions of state legislation that opened back up rural water wells for home owners and farmers.
5 min read · 9 comments
See no evil – speak no evil – hear no evil
By Elisabeth Britt · Sun Jan 21, 2018
A critical look at the state legislature’s lame and deceptive effort to halt sexual harrassment and assault in - in the state legislature.
3 min read · 2 comments
Gov Inslee Signs Rural Water Fix Legislation
By Elisabeth Britt · Fri Jan 19, 2018
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed bipartisan legislation today that resolves the rural water permits for homeowner uses.
4 min read · 6 comments
Demonizing Satpal Sidhu
By Elisabeth Britt · Fri Jun 16, 2017
Social Media exchanges among politically polarized groups often deteriorate into personal attacks, smear campaigns and verbal abuse.
4 min read · 9 comments
Smear Campaign
By Elisabeth Britt · Mon May 29, 2017
Former Whatcom County Councilmember Kershner asserts that Satpal Sidhu is unfit for public office.
4 min read · 15 comments
The Human Right to Water
By Elisabeth Britt · Wed Mar 15, 2017
Our rural Whatcom County residents are being denied the right to have water for new homes, and this in a county that has no idea how much water it has, but has a lot.
6 min read · 22 comments
A Water Shortage Problem, NOT a Water Shortage
By Elisabeth Britt · Mon Dec 19, 2016
A counter to Hirst’s position. An insightful overview of the current situation with Whatcom County’s exempt water wells and the unfair building moratorium the council has put on rural property owners.
7 min read · 3 comments
County Rural Residents Can Check On Water
By Elisabeth Britt · Sat Dec 3, 2016
The state DOE has prepared an interactive map that allows rural property owners to check on water resources for their property.
1 min read · 3 comments
Well Drilling & the Burden of Proof
By Elisabeth Britt · Fri Nov 25, 2016
The county council is holding a public hearing.
2 min read
Water Well Drilling Moratorium is Bad Idea
By Elisabeth Britt · Fri Nov 25, 2016
A counter to the Eric Hirst inspired decision of the county council to clamp a total moratorium on drilling new water wells in Whatcom County - and thus a home building ban.
4 min read · 1 comment
County Council Rep Ken Mann Has a Hangover
By Elisabeth Britt · Sat Nov 19, 2016
Ken Mann has an election hangover.
2 min read

Elisabeth Britt

Citizen Journalist · Writing Since Dec 31, 1969
Before becoming a citizen journalist, Elisabeth Britt worked in Olympia as a legislative aide. Locally, she served on the WRIA 1 Planning Unit, the Coordinated Water System Plan and as a state team member for the Federal Lummi Nation Water Rights Negotiations. In other roles, Britt served as chair of the Public Safety Committee for WDOT Whitewater Amphitheater Blue Ribbon Traffic Safety Commission and sat on the WA State Department of Ecology Citizen’s Advisory Committee.

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