Recent NWCitizen Articles

Racism Is Still With Us In Whatcom County

John Servais · Mon Jan 15, 2018

Prominent local Republicans post a racist article on our local Lummi Indians.

Dick Conoboy · Thu Jan 11, 2018

Let’s put the asinine suggestion that Oprah is a viable presidential candidate in the dust bin of monumentally awful and destructive ideas.

Dick Conoboy awarded Paul deArmond Citizen Journalism Award

John Servais · Wed Jan 10, 2018

Dick Conoboy has written for over 10 years about Bellingham city hall not enforcing its own laws and the slow destruction of single family neighborhoods. The award is well earned.

Murphy to Lead Bellingham City Council

Dick Conoboy · Mon Jan 8, 2018

Committee assignments will be voted on at tonight’s council meeting.

Cognitive Dissonance Я Us: Meet the Planning Commission

Dick Conoboy · Sun Jan 7, 2018

The Planning Commission attempts, poorly, to reconcile vacation rentals and housing for Bellingham’s own citizens.

“Yes You CAN Fight City Hall: Lessons Learned From Seattle”

Dick Conoboy · Thu Jan 4, 2018

The Bellingham Neighborhood Coalition’s second public event on the currrent attempt to rezone the city.

Count ‘em: 29 people seek vacancy on Whatcom County Council

Ralph Schwartz · Wed Dec 20, 2017

Current County Council members will need to do their homework to separate the wheat from the chaff from the Eric Bostrom.

Public Internet Fiber for Bellingham: A Local Answer to Net Neutrality Loss

Jon Humphrey · Mon Dec 18, 2017

The Bellingham Council is considering the issue of public fiber for all of Bellingham. Jon presents a report on their struggle and urges action.

Whatcom Water Resources: A Major Problem and a Reasonable Solution

Eric Hirst · Mon Dec 18, 2017

Irrigation, the use of huge field sprinklers, is the big user of unpermitted water in our county. Not family households. Eric presents a solution.

Crowded field: 11 seek Whatcom council vacancy days before deadline

Ralph Schwartz · Sat Dec 16, 2017

Nine men and two women so far seek a one-year appointment to the County Council.

City’s First Step to Rezone/Upzone Single Family Neighborhoods

Dick Conoboy · Thu Dec 7, 2017

The city is beginning a process of densification to rezone/up-zone all single family neighborhoods. Pay attention.

Extrapolation and Imagination

Elizabeth Soderberg · Wed Dec 6, 2017

Why do national literature critics grossly underestimate the creative genius of great writers?

District-only dead? Whatcom council to weigh return to countywide vote

Ralph Schwartz · Mon Nov 20, 2017

Appearing on the council agenda Tuesday, Nov. 21, is a proposed 2018 ballot measure to return Whatcom to countywide voting for council. Discussion is planned for Dec. 5.

A Little Politics

John Servais · Mon Nov 20, 2017

A report on what we hear (reliably!) about political appointments, firings and filing for offices. For political junkies only. (Not really.)