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Still the Big Hurdle for Reconveyance
From the outset of discussion of the proposal to reconvey forest lands to the county for a new park I have written that it is necessary to first rezone or amend Whatcom County’s Comprehensive Plan in
By g.h.kirsch · Tue Sep 30, 2008
3 min read · 1 comment
Is Global Warning a Myth ?
As we race towards a future fraught with economic and environmental uncertainty; and as global forces pull at our cherished freedoms and political institutions, at the risk of more ridicule and condes
By g.h.kirsch · Tue Sep 30, 2008
8 min read
Outa Sight & Outa Their Minds
The good news for ordinary American taxpayers just keeps coming. Monday’s formal announcement of Treasury Secretary Geithner’s oft floated It-ain’t-really-a-Bailout Plan thrilled Wall Street. Why wo
By g.h.kirsch · Tue Sep 30, 2008
2 min read
And now for something completely
different
As I listened to The Great Leader explain our national predicament last night I heard two things.

First, we the people are in tremendous jeopardy, and face a financial collapse of a magnitude
By g.h.kirsch · Thu Sep 25, 2008
2 min read · 4 comments
THE STRAIGHT TALK DISTRESS
While hyping a claim to be the agent of change and reform, it appears the maverick’s minions missed the message. In another example of the rising price of free speech, Amy Goodman and other journalis
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Sep 6, 2008
2 min read · 4 comments
Homeward Bound - Outward Bound
The City Club discussion of Bellingham’s deteriorating water supply today wasn’t much, but it was a start. Perhaps the most to be taken away from the gathering was the depth and degree of the public’
By g.h.kirsch · Wed Aug 27, 2008
4 min read · 5 comments
High Noon At The Not So OK Coral
This Wednesday at the City Club Bellingham’s mayor and the County Executive may begin to address the failing condition of Lake Whatcom. But again, they may not. Joining them will be Steve Hood who h
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Aug 23, 2008
3 min read · 3 comments
“Anixation”
What’s a county council to make of it? One year its largest city asks for thousands of acres to accommodate its growth, hardly a year later it’s declining to annex areas designated for growth a decad
By g.h.kirsch · Thu Aug 14, 2008
2 min read
The Park in Reality
Rand Jack, long associated with the Whatcom Land Trust and its organizers, has published what he feels are compelling reasons for the County Council to approve and fund the development of a park in t
By g.h.kirsch · Wed Jul 30, 2008
5 min read · 5 comments
Posting & Pandering
The turnout and turnaround that took place Tuesday at the County Council was interesting from another perspective. After days and weeks of apparently strong public opposition on the Herald’s blogs to
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Jul 26, 2008
1 min read · 6 comments
How Crime Pays: The Neo Con
For several decades now we have dismantled the system of restrictions on wealth thought necessary to prevent economic catastrophe like the one that befell us in the early part of the last century. We
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Jul 19, 2008
2 min read · 2 comments
Deja vu All Over Again
No matter how one hopes things will change, things remain the same. Bellingham wants the county to curb development in the watershed, but can’t seem to stop allowing the infrastructure that su
By g.h.kirsch · Mon Jun 30, 2008
4 min read · 2 comments
Who’ll Stop the Raid
While the Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District races to expand its infrastructure to serve sprawling development on the north shore of the lake, the King County Superior Court, Thursday, struck down th
By g.h.kirsch · Mon Jun 16, 2008
3 min read · 2 comments
THE LAKE & ECOLOGY; Can’t Have
One Without The Other
Why all the hubbub about building moratoria in the Lake Whatcom watershed? You can’t build or subdivide without adequate water, and the entire watershed is closed to new wells.

And the water
By g.h.kirsch · Mon May 26, 2008
7 min read · 1 comment
Saving the Lake
Another important step towards dealing with the pollution of Lake Whatcom was taken tonight. The mayor and city council have thrown down the gauntlet to Pete Kremen and the county council. Bellingha
By g.h.kirsch · Tue May 20, 2008
1 min read · 14 comments
A Park for Pete’s Sake
To now, the discussion about creating a park in the watershed has focused on the benefit for water quality in Lake Whatcom that will come from eliminating forestry on some 3,000 or so acres near the l
By g.h.kirsch · Fri May 2, 2008
4 min read · 13 comments
The Merger; Second Thoughts Anyone?
Listening to the discussion of a possible merger between Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District and Bellingham at City Council this afternoon was like returning to those wild and reckless days of the 197
By g.h.kirsch · Mon Apr 28, 2008
4 min read · 3 comments
Parks and More Important Things
It’s been an interesting week for watershed watchers. The growing Squalicum community chose to continue the fight to stop Lake Whatcom Water & Sewer District’s expansion plans. And Ecology finally d
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Apr 26, 2008
5 min read · 2 comments
You don’t know what you got till
it’s gone
It’s time for straight answers to critical questions relative to converting a large portion of the watershed from forestry to a park. If you’re on the fence, mull this over.

By way of backgrou
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Mar 29, 2008
9 min read · 15 comments
Another Case of American Blind Justice
Yesterday liars, lawyers, and legitimately offended gathered at the courthouse because the court remanded approval of a project to expand water service in the watershed back to the Hearing Examiner, s
By g.h.kirsch · Thu Mar 20, 2008
8 min read · 4 comments

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