Recent NWCitizen Articles

Turning Traditional Medicare Into Medicare (Dis)Advantage...From Within
Dick Conoboy · Tue Jul 15, 2025
There is a "pilot" program, about to be in effect in six states, to reduce costs by requiring prior authorization for procedures for Traditional Medicare patients.
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Finally! Lane Striping for Samish Overpass
Tom Dohman · Thu Jul 10, 2025
Long awaited and much needed, this busy intersection will finally have some concrete guidance for drivers.
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Is That the Way This Works? Really??
Barbara Plaskett · Mon Jun 2, 2025
Planning Commission member and voice for the city’s low-income, Barbara Plaskett, was a shoe-in for a second term—until three city council members sank her. What did she do “wrong?”
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Scamming Our Veterans - It Never Ends
Dick Conoboy · Fri May 30, 2025
The willingness, the capability, the persistence, and the unmitigated gall to scam our veterans knows no bounds.
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Listening To Our Dead Soldiers - Memorial Day 2025
Dick Conoboy · Fri May 23, 2025
Visit a military cemetery. The soldiers are talking to us.
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Lake Whatcom Dissolved Oxygen Study
Enoch "EJ" Ledet · Sat May 17, 2025
Oxygen levels in Lake Whatcom are dangerously low.
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Trump’s Wolkenkuckucksheim*
David A. Swanson · Wed Apr 23, 2025
“Opinions don’t affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you’re rational.”—Ricky Gervais
Rural Hospitals and the Medicare (Dis)Advantage Ripoff
Dick Conoboy · Sun Apr 20, 2025
Elon Musk could easily reclaim several hundred billion dollars by attacking fraud, waste, and abuse within the Medicare (Dis)Advantage program.
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Who is the Real Andrew Reding?
Jon Humphrey · Mon Apr 14, 2025
A critique of Andrew Reding's public and political actions as he prepares to run for a seat on the Bellingham City Council.
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.

John M Repp

Commenting Since Oct 26, 2022
I was born in 1944 in a small town in the Midwest. I came to Washington State to attend graduate school at the University of Washington. There in 1969, I joined protests against the Vietnam war and found my purpose. When Bush and Cheney decided to invade Iraq, I joined the Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation. I am a retired machinist and programmer who worked 20 years at Boeing. My wife and I moved to Bellingham in 2020.

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