Recent NWCitizen Articles

Updated NW Citizen Website - Here It Is
By John Servais · Tue Feb 11, 2025
Thanks to generous donations from readers, this site is renovated and improved.
3 min read
YIMBYs: It Was Never About Affordability
By Scott Jones · Mon Feb 10, 2025
Affordability has been a ruse for creating market rate housing.
8 min read · 11 comments
Ask City Council to Do Right by Us
By Jon Humphrey · Sat Feb 8, 2025
Represent Us and Our Interests. Please!
3 min read · 5 comments
Bellingham City Council Resolution on the $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 5, 2025
Local action in support of a proposal to rebuild nationwide infrastructure
2 min read · 1 comment
Truth, Justice and the American Way
By Tip Johnson · Mon Jan 27, 2025
Who’s Superman when you need him? We are.
4 min read · 2 comments
Corporate Welfare at its Worst …and About to Get Worse
By 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.
6 min read · 7 comments
State Budget Crisis? Stop Paying Private Banks!
By 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.
4 min read
Gabbard and Hegseth.  Why Are They Not Profoundly Ashamed?
By 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.
7 min read · 6 comments
New Trump Administration Expected To Undo Biden’s Financial Regulation
By Marco Rosaire Rossi · Sun Nov 24, 2024
Chaos likely to ensue. Catastrophe cannot be ruled out.
4 min read · 15 comments
The Tyranny Of Leaf Blowers
By Roseanne Laan · Thu Nov 14, 2024
There is no escape from the deep-throated roar and the clouds of filth produced by these machines.
2 min read · 3 comments
The Election of Donald Trump
By John Servais · Thu Nov 7, 2024
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
4 min read · 19 comments
Veterans Day, 2024.  What Is To Be Done?
By Dick Conoboy · Mon Nov 4, 2024
Deeds, not talk, count on Veterans Day
2 min read · 2 comments
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How Do You Spell Budget And Disaster Relief?  N…I…B
By 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.
2 min read
Medicare Advantage Open Season And YOU Are The $$$ Target
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Oct 23, 2024
Medicare Advantage is NOT Medicare. Medicare is there to provide health care. Medicare Advantage is a business, there to make money.
2 min read · 1 comment
An Overlooked Benefit of Improved Internet Access in Whatcom County: The U.S. Census
By David A. Swanson · Mon Oct 21, 2024
David Swanson verifies what Jon Humphrey has said for years: good internet access benefits people, cities, counties, and states.
5 min read · 10 comments
Minimum Wage - Farce or Tragedy?
By Dick Conoboy · Sat Oct 19, 2024
Or perhaps tragic farce or farcical tragedy might be more apt descriptors. Pick one, or both.
3 min read · 13 comments
The Big Ask
By NWCitizen Management · Wed Oct 16, 2024
After nearly 30 years online, and literally being one of the oldest blogs on the internet, Northwest Citizen needs a major programming overhaul. To do so, we need your help.
4 min read · 1 comment
The Disturbing Disappearance of Local Banks
By Marco Rosaire Rossi · Thu Sep 19, 2024
The top 20% of commercial banks in the United States control 95% of our total banking assets. Remember “Too-Big-to-Fail”?
4 min read · 3 comments
How To Get Nothing Done
By Jon Humphrey · Sat Aug 24, 2024
The City has created another useless document ensuring nothing changes and mediocre communication services are protected.
6 min read · 13 comments

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