By: John Servais

Sat, March 28 at Waypoint Park on the Bellingham waterfront.
With just 5 days until election day, here are some notes that may help you with your ballot.
Yes, voting recommendations for those 12 proposed amendments to our Home Rule Charter.
Lisa Anderson exposes dishonesty and bias in local Dems candidate endorsement process.
It didn’t need to be Town vs. Gown
Thanks to generous donations from readers, this site is renovated and improved.
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
Why a vote for Jason Call for Congress is a good vote for conservatives, liberals, Democrats and Republicans. Yes, an unusual idea.
The last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone from our town.
A 54-photo tour of the ruptured pipe area of the Whatcom Creek explosion taken in July 1999.
Below is an audio tape of 911 calls, emergency responders’ radio communications, and local radio coverage from June 10, 1999 when Whatcom Creek exploded in Bellingham
Port of Bellingham commissioners terminate last 13 years of ABC Recycling lease
Why a Liberal is voting for a Conservative for the Whatcom County Council
The fellow says he wants to make Twitter a better public forum by enhancing freedom of speech. Sounds great.
It is time to change our national pledge of allegiance - a change in response to the insurrection of January 6, 2021 and the attack on our National Capitol Building.
A look at where TAGNW, Jon Humphrey, and Whatcom County are headed for broadband Internet access.
Bellingham business woman offers sexuality workshops for 9 - 17 year olds at her sex shop.
We have a new newspaper located in Bellingham with the goal of covering our three counties and lower British Columbia.
Learning more about the managing editor of a new daily news source in Bellingham, coming January 1.
Mayor Fleetwood spent 10 minutes verbally attacking Tip Johnson’s petition to stop illegal city street vacations.
John Servais

John Servais

Citizen Journalist and Editor · Fairhaven · Writing Since Mar 8, 2008
John started Northwest Citizen in 1995 to inform fellow citizens of serious local political issues that the Bellingham Herald was ignoring. With the help of donors from the beginning, he has improved the site, invited other writers to join him, and enabled commenting with verified real names for informative community dialog. He is proud that NW Citizen is now perhaps the oldest political blog in the world.

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Recent Comments by John Servais

Sat Mar 28, 2026

Gene, protests also invorm all of we citizens of the level of concern on an issue.  There is little else that we citizens are allowed to do between elections. As each No King protest is larger than the previous, we learn that there is real opposition to Trump and his regime acting as lords of our land and intimidating Congress and the courts.  We are telling ourselves that we as a society want a nation governed by laws and limited powers.

I agree that Mr T and his minions care not a twit about the demonstrations.  They do not care about fair elections either - but we do.  Liberals, Ds, Rs, and MAGAs all believe in fair elections with every citizen having a equal opportunity to vote.  And we all believe elected officials should represent us.  

Congress could rein in our would be king - and our representatives are definitely paying atttention to the No Kings demonstrations.  

The person I want impressed is our Representative Rick Larsen - the cowardly quiet one who does not speak out in Congress or in public for these values. Maybe he might realize that he should exercise his privilege and power to speak....  ah, I'm dreaming.  While it seems impossible to replace him in November with an actual representative of we citizens of the 2nd Congressional District, we can try - and the demostrations may encourage new candidates to run against Larsen and the membes of Congress who are such cowards.

No Kings Protest Rally 1 p.m. Saturday
Thu Jan 8, 2026

Enoch, the new AI generated map is still very much in error.  Fo starters, Sumas Lake was in Canada and the map shows it in the U.S.  The map shows Canadian city of Abbotsford in the U.S.  And more.  We appreciate your effort, but ... lets let it alone. 

To our readers, our apology for posting this graphic without fully examining it.  We owners and editors are now discussing the AI issue as it has come to NW Citizen.

In my personal opinion, AI is a developing useful tool, just as are computers and most all other human inventions.  And like all new inventions in human history, the first uses of it go wildly crazy and people think it spells the end of civilization.  

John Servais, one of the owners and editors of NW Citizen

Mitigating Whatcom Flooding