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An Eight Inch Loophole?
We will soon see our county government’s true colors flying. Will it be appropriate growth management, or them managing to get around it? Just how far will they push sprawl?

On March 19th a
By g.h.kirsch · Sun Mar 9, 2008
6 min read · 1 comment
When Negativity Might Just Pull You
Through
Unlike graffiti, it’s easy to avoid the unclaimed posts on what serves as the Herald’s exchange of political thought, and even more anonymous sites passing themselves off as political commentary. Tha
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Feb 23, 2008
2 min read · 2 comments
Let’s Drink to Pete and Jay!
With all due reverence for Messrs Jefferson and Reagan, a government that governs less is not always a government that governs best. Consider Ecology’s performance the last twenty some years. And loo
By g.h.kirsch · Thu Feb 21, 2008
4 min read · 2 comments
Where There’s Smoke and No One’s
Fired
Karen Frakes is legal advisor to the Whatcom County Council,.though I will leave it to you to decide who she really represents. She’s a deputy in Dave McEachran’s office.

Professor Bentham o
By g.h.kirsch · Sun Feb 10, 2008
4 min read · 1 comment
Turning Straw Into Gold
Allowing residential development on farmlands is turning straw into gold. Like most land use decisions, it is distributing wealth. So it is very much of interest who is granted this power, and how t
By g.h.kirsch · Fri Feb 8, 2008
3 min read
On UGA Expansion
County Councilmembers,

You were earlier given good reasons to reconsider the Planning Committee’s recommendation to expand the Bellingham UGA by Mr. Horowitz. Allow me to give you some more p
By g.h.kirsch · Tue Jan 29, 2008
3 min read
Lake Whatcom - Treatment Center or
Water District
Once you put water and sewer lines in, growth is inevitable. To all those who are late coming to the party, opposition to the unlawful expansion of these services by water districts and our county gov
By g.h.kirsch · Thu Jan 24, 2008
3 min read · 2 comments
County & Water District Lose in
Superior Court
Friday afternoon, Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Ira Uhrig refused to dismiss the challenge to a conditional use permit that would have allowed the extension of water services outside of the urba
By g.h.kirsch · Mon Jan 21, 2008
2 min read · 2 comments

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