By: Jon Humphrey

Whatever happened to that multi-million dollar grant the Port got for rural broadband?
Is the City’s Internet survey designed to protect inferior service?
Virtual monopolies engender poor service and lack of customer focus.
Bellingham Public Schools Learns Evasive Maneuvers from City Hall
Replacing all 71 buses would cost $6,035,000. Maybe later…
Under Eric Johnston, they’ve been stalling, dragging it out, and protecting big telecom.
Between the professional service of Comcast, and the “professionals” at COB, start training Carrier pigeons.
Effective, efficient and low cost, high speed broadband service continues to elude Bellingham and Whatcom County
A new and local county wide technology group of Internet and broadband experts has been formed. Jon explains why and lists the members.
An essay on climate change, millennials’ concerns, and large corporations and governments complacently stealing our kids futures.
BAG - the Bellingham city hall Broadband Advisory Group is stacked in favor of mega corporations and against local public Internet service.
Broken promises, bad administration, and still NO access to our publicly-owned resources
The advantage of an “advisory” group, (as in Broadband Advisory Group,) is that you don’t have to listen to them.
The city has instituted unnecessary restrictions on the Broadband Advisory Group’s discussion and outside input.
Regulatory standards in SB-5511 offer nothing but give the appearance of doing something.
Public Works Director, Eric Johnston and Council Member Michael Lilliquist hand-picked their “perfect members” to determine our internet future.
Councilman Lilliquist tries to rewrite history in Bellingham’s war over internet fiber.
Comcast inflicts $3/mo rate hike, data caps, and overage fees
How Bellingham Schools fail the poor.
Five years ago CenturyLink wanted their TV franchise to be in Bellingham in a big way. They failed and now want to pull out.

Jon Humphrey

Citizen Journalist · Bellingham · Writing Since Aug 24, 2017
Jon Humphrey is currently a music educator in Bellingham and very active in the community. He also has decades of professional IT experience including everything from support to development. He considers Bellingham to be the best place he has ever lived and has been here for over 8 years now. He has been interested in technology, music, and science since he was very young and holds a degree in Music Production/Technology from the prestigious Hartt School. He started writing for his high school newspaper and has even published a sci-fi novel on Amazon. Aside from his above interests, Jon spends his time repairing electronics, cars, hiking, diving, and motorcycling. He is a well known figure in the Open Source and Retro Gaming communities and does what he can to support them. He also cares very much about the environment, homelessness, and digital divide issues and does what he can on those fronts too.

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