Recent NWCitizen Articles

Watching Dean on TV celebrating 3rd place
By John Servais · Tue Jan 20, 2004
in Iowa embarrassed me. Watching John Edwards speak after his surprise 2nd-place finish was refreshing and hopeful. Edwards spoke to America during his 7 minutes of coverage by all the networks. Dean
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Martin Luther King was a true American hero
By John Servais · Mon Jan 19, 2004
and champion of our basic rights. Without him we would be a more backward country today - and perhaps have more internal violence. He showed the way for whites as well as blacks towards a society of e
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Screwed up city bureaucracy is exposed
By John Servais · Fri Jan 16, 2004
by Tim Paxton. He posted this to the Lake Whatcom discussion group and has given permission for posting here. I phoned the city attorney’s office and asked the name of this attorney in Tim’s report. T
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Northwest Citizen is firmly for Howard Dean
By John Servais · Thu Jan 15, 2004
for President. The most important single reason is that I think he can beat George Bush. I’m independent, never having belonged to either party. Some of my best liberal friends insist I’m a closet con
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The second issue of The Town Crier is out
By John Servais · Wed Jan 14, 2004
The online edition has the same articles as the four-page tabloid. It would help if the editor would put dates with the online articles so we know which are current. Editor James Johann prints an anal
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Posted mid January at bottom of home page
By John Servais · Wed Jan 14, 2004
About 240 citizens check NwCitizen each day and regular readers check about once a week. Over 4,000 unique - different - citizens check this site every month. Examining where you come from reve
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Find your way - and please use it
By John Servais · Thu Jan 8, 2004
We read that 35 US soldiers were “hit” in Iraq yesterday. When our Bellingham Herald does print war casualties on the front page, the choice of words seeks to minimize the tragedy. Hit. Did someone pu
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Did you feel the earthquake at 4:11 pm
By John Servais · Tue Jan 6, 2004
this afternoon? A small 2.7 intensity quake under the southern part of Chuckanut Mountain, about 4 miles south of Fairhaven, jolted us. You can check the earthquake site for details.

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Does FoxNews lie and distort the news
By John Servais · Sat Jan 3, 2004
to fit their conservative agenda? Yes. On a daily basis. Here is a nice example.

“Dean Attack on Kerry Farm Vote Backfires” reads the headline of a Jan 2 article suggesting Dean has accused Ker
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The dismantling of civil liberties
By John Servais · Sun Dec 28, 2003
I see the Bham Herald has taken to printing US war dead on the back pages. Maybe some directive came down from Gannett headquarters telling all 80-some Gannettoids to print this awkward bad news in th
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Check the War and Peace links
By John Servais · Thu Dec 18, 2003
May I urge you, gentle reader and patriotic American, to check the War and Peace website links on the right. Look for articles that may give you more facts and information on what our country is doing
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The capture of Saddam Hussein today
By John Servais · Sun Dec 14, 2003
is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another for Iraq and also for the United States.

If your reaction to reading those words is “dahhh” then pause a moment and consider what you thin
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How much did George W know before 9/11
By John Servais · Wed Dec 3, 2003
about the impending attack? Enough to have stopped the attack? The widow of a fellow killed in the attack has refused the $1 million from the government and is suing George W and his advisors. And she
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Obviously a no-win situation
By John Servais · Tue Dec 2, 2003
I urge you to visit the independent websites that report on events in Iraq. Independent being those not owned by US corporate media, such as CNN, Fox, MSNbc, etc. The independent War and Peace sites a
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Their Blood is on Bush’s Hands
By John Servais · Mon Nov 24, 2003
Here is a link to an excellent Flash-style animation about soldiers dying in Iraq.
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Lack of environmental enforcement
By John Servais · Sun Nov 23, 2003
of some local developers is plain to see in this photo essay at the Lake Whatcom website. The WA Dept of Ecology has enforcement folks tooling around in their spiffy pickups, but no enforcement for th
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Suspicious activity
By John Servais · Sat Nov 22, 2003
Today’s Herald has a human interest story about Greg Grant who hired sniper John Muhammad for yard chores a year ago - just a couple weeks before his rampage of killing. This past week, Greg testified
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The Port has reversed itself
By John Servais · Tue Nov 18, 2003
and has hired a private fueling firm for the airport, according to today’s Bham Herald. Remember a couple years ago, summer of 2001, the port terminated Alpha Aviation, saying the Port would run fueli
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An analysis of the election results
By John Servais · Mon Nov 17, 2003
by Paul de Armond is posted. Paul examines the returns and gives his perspective on what the numbers mean. His is not your conventional approach.

Paul runs the Public Good website and is active
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