Recent NWCitizen Articles

The choice of plans is yours, but it's akin to playing Russian Roulette with a round in every chamber.
With just 5 days until election day, here are some notes that may help you with your ballot.
Yes, voting recommendations for those 12 proposed amendments to our Home Rule Charter.
An increase in "provisional" approvals for disability may be the reason for the VA's so-called surge in "completed" disability claims.
HR 5356, to establish a $5 trillion bank to develop infrastructure replaces HR 4052 that was originally submitted to the 118th Congress in 2023.
Maintenance, upgrades, tweaks, and unintended consequences
A perspective on the Oct 18 No Kings protest.
Thugs are thugs, regardless of what they’re wearing.
The resolution would allow the investment of state employee long term care insurance premiums in stocks of private companies
When you look at government statistics, we’re not doing so great. What’s going on here?
Bellingham 6th Ward city council seat has Michael Lilliquist running for re-election.
Lisa Anderson exposes dishonesty and bias in local Dems candidate endorsement process.
A development on the steep hillsides of Chuckanut Bay - with no environmental study. Really?
Knowingly encouraging Medicare recipients to move to the confiscatory Medicare (Dis)Advantage is abusive
It didn’t need to be Town vs. Gown
Is extortion the new method of fundraising in Bellingham?
Is Bellingham really The City of Subdued Excitement? Or is it The City of Poor Choices, Pretend Progressives, and Missed Opportunities?
Whatcom Transit Authority holds a lease on our public fiber. We need to demand access to these resources that we’ve already paid for.
Allowing recreational bonfires in Bellingham’s wooded residential areas is asking for disaster
Will our declining birth rates be the end of us? Or will it be something quicker?

James Colter

Commenting Since Jul 15, 2017
My working life as a small business owner revolved around construction services and technology for many years. After re-locating to Blaine, WA in 2009 and seeing their Peace Arch State Park; I recognized an opportunity to organize a music festival and picnic that celebrates family and our active duty hero’s in uniform. Oh Yeah ... you can count on my sense of humor to put a smile on your face; quick wit, a little irreverent, sarcastic but not to the extreme, mostly appropriate in mixed company.

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