Recent NWCitizen Articles

From Scarcity to Stability: Rewriting the Housing Blueprint
Kerri Burnside · Tue Apr 8, 2025
Bellingham needs a new approach to low cost housing.
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Congressional Gold Medal Legislation Reintroduced For The Donut Dollies
Dick Conoboy · Thu Mar 13, 2025
A bi-partisan bill to honor the Vietnam service of the Red Cross Donut Dollies was reintroduced by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) on March 11th.
Privatize Medicare? Perish The Thought...But Wait!
Dick Conoboy · Tue Mar 11, 2025
Now that I think of it, half of Medicare has already been privatized under Bush, Obama, Trump 45, and Biden.
City Council Fails Us Again
Jon Humphrey · Thu Feb 27, 2025
Thanks to Jon Humphrey, our community knows more about public fiber than most. Unfortunately, it hasn’t helped us.
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Veterans Must Unite To Save The Veterans Administration
Dick Conoboy · Sun Feb 23, 2025
It is about “having the six”* of your fellow veterans.
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City-Created Floodplain Threatens 62 Homes
Christopher Grannis · Sun Feb 16, 2025
New 33-unit project makes matters worse
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Updated NW Citizen Website - Here It Is
John Servais · Tue Feb 11, 2025
Thanks to generous donations from readers, this site is renovated and improved.
YIMBYs: It Was Never About Affordability
Scott Jones · Mon Feb 10, 2025
Affordability has been a ruse for creating market rate housing.
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Ask City Council to Do Right by Us
Jon Humphrey · Sat Feb 8, 2025
Represent Us and Our Interests. Please!
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Bellingham City Council Resolution on the $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank
Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 5, 2025
Local action in support of a proposal to rebuild nationwide infrastructure
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Truth, Justice and the American Way
Tip Johnson · Mon Jan 27, 2025
Who’s Superman when you need him? We are.
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Corporate Welfare at its Worst …and About to Get Worse
Jon Humphrey · Sat Jan 4, 2025
From Musk’s big investment all the way to local campaigns, political “contributions” will be re-paid. Here’s how.
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State Budget Crisis? Stop Paying Private Banks!
Marco Rosaire Rossi · Mon Dec 30, 2024
Private banks are fighting hard to keep us from starting our own state bank. There’s a reason.
Gabbard and Hegseth.  Why Are They Not Profoundly Ashamed?
Dick Conoboy · Sun Dec 1, 2024
To be so manifestly unqualified and yet not be deeply aware of that speaks exactly to the very point of not being qualified.
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New Trump Administration Expected To Undo Biden’s Financial Regulation
Marco Rosaire Rossi · Sun Nov 24, 2024
Chaos likely to ensue. Catastrophe cannot be ruled out.
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The Tyranny Of Leaf Blowers
Roseanne Laan · Thu Nov 14, 2024
There is no escape from the deep-throated roar and the clouds of filth produced by these machines.
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The Election of Donald Trump
John Servais · Thu Nov 7, 2024
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
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Veterans Day, 2024.  What Is To Be Done?
Dick Conoboy · Mon Nov 4, 2024
Deeds, not talk, count on Veterans Day
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How Do You Spell Budget And Disaster Relief?  N…I…B
Dick Conoboy · Sun Oct 27, 2024
An off-budget $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank (NIB), along the lines of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) that operated between 1932-1957, means low-cost loans and no additions to the deficit.

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