Recent NWCitizen Articles

Time to Close the Northern Border?
By Ham Hayes · Fri Apr 18, 2008
Frankly, I’m stunned by the Herald’s lead headline today. I did not realize that the national policy of Canada was focused on hurting us by buying our gas. Worse yet, it’s probably deeper tha
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It’s Time, Don’t You Think?
By Ham Hayes · Sat Apr 12, 2008
It’s time for the City Council to publish meeting agendas two weeks in advance, rather than the current two days. There is another kerfuffle brewing this week on neighborhood plan docketing th
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What you can’t see, won’t kill ya - a lesson in TBL
By Ham Hayes · Fri Feb 22, 2008
TBL, or Triple Bottom Line, is a nifty concept that says we want to be evaluating and measuring projects on the basis not only of economic, but environmental and societal values as well. TBL i
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Gas(p) Gulping to Oregon
By Ham Hayes · Tue Feb 19, 2008
What are we thinking? Or do we think at all? I drove to Portland this weekend to visit my daughter. Now I admit to being one of those hyper-mileage nuts. I own a hybrid and averaged 47 mpg. That’
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City Council Flip Flop on Public Comment - UPDATE
By Ham Hayes · Tue Feb 5, 2008
Isn’t it fair to ask the city council to establish and consistently follow a procedure for when public comment will be allowed? Is it good open government to say beforehand that no public commen
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Central Library - Are We Ready to Decide?
By Ham Hayes · Mon Feb 4, 2008
Almost everyone of us has been significantly touched by the revolution of digitized information and the internet. And if you want to see what’s happening to electronic libraries, go to the Library of
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Waterfront EIS and all that
By Ham Hayes · Thu Jan 17, 2008
Oftimes it is far easier to criticize than to compliment. Is it too easy to forget how to acknowledge positive steps? At this week’s WAG meeting, Port official Mike Stoner, Mayor Dan Pike, City Plan
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Thoughts on Public Discourse
By Ham Hayes · Sun Dec 23, 2007
Blog sites are popping up everywhere. They can be on all sorts of subjects and our local political blogs seem especially popular. Just look at the large number of new blogs the Bellingham Heral
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Ham Hayes

Citizen Journalist · Writing Since Jan 21, 2008
Ham moved to Bellingham in 1999 and wrote for NW Citizen from 2007 to 2011. He died in October 2022.

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