Recent NWCitizen Articles

Nooksack Adjudication vs. State Water
Law?
Eric Hirst gives us a brief and clear explanation of the water adjudication process that is beginning now in Whatcom County
By Eric Hirst · Fri Jun 14, 2024
2 min read · 3 comments
The Scrap Heap - The Real Message
Aggressive citizen involvement carried the day.
By David Netboy · Wed Jun 12, 2024
3 min read · 5 comments
The Wealth Of Real Estate Corporations
Is Not Our Purpose For Being
Build-for-profit, incarceration-inspired housing is destroying our souls.
By Carol Follett · Tue Jun 11, 2024
4 min read · 11 comments
All Remaining ABC Scrap Metal Is On Ship
The last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone from our town.
By John Servais · Mon Jun 10, 2024
1 min read · 1 comment
A Walking Tour at the Core of the
Explosion
A 54-photo tour of the ruptured pipe area of the Whatcom Creek explosion taken in July 1999.
By John Servais · Mon Jun 10, 2024
2 min read · 1 comment
The Audio of the Pipeline Explosion
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
By John Servais · Sat Jun 8, 2024
1 min read · 2 comments
Court Process for Defining Whatcom
Water Rights Begins
Whatcom County's confusing water rights will be defined by court proceedings beginning now
By James Davenport · Mon Jun 3, 2024
3 min read · 1 comment
Memorial Day 2024 - Remembering My
Friends
If not killed-in-action, they are still dying from the effects of their service in Vietnam.
By Dick Conoboy · Sat May 25, 2024
5 min read · 7 comments
More Broadbandwashing and Anti-Voter
Secrecy
The foam of secrecy hides all.
By Jon Humphrey · Sat May 25, 2024
6 min read
Water Rights
Local presentations scheduled on a reasonable use framework for water resource management
By Tip Johnson · Thu May 2, 2024
1 min read
A Resolution to Make Sure Nothing Gets
Done
Broadband-Washing: Greenwashing the Internet
By Jon Humphrey · Tue Apr 9, 2024
5 min read · 6 comments
Moving Back from the Brink
Pacific Northwest organizers join a global campaign to abolish all nukes and push for a city council resolution to start
By Gene Marx · Fri Apr 5, 2024
5 min read · 4 comments
Medicare (Dis)Advantage - Even
Hospitals Don’t Like It.
If the hospitals are smelling a rat, so should Medicare (Dis)Advantage victims (AKA enrollees).
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Mar 31, 2024
4 min read · 2 comments
The $5 Trillion National Infrastructure
Bank Is Looking Better Every Day
With such a bank in place, we would likely not be scrambling around and asking Congress for rebuild monies, as we are now with the catastrophic event involving the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024.
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Mar 27, 2024
2 min read
Scrap metal shipping from Port dock
ends this summer
Port of Bellingham commissioners terminate last 13 years of ABC Recycling lease
By John Servais · Mon Mar 25, 2024
3 min read · 5 comments
COB - Your Interests vs. Corporate
Interests
No public fiber means we can’t compete with big telecom. EVER.
By Jon Humphrey · Mon Mar 18, 2024
7 min read · 4 comments
The Insidious Creep of Medicare
(Dis)Advantage
Crappier coverage for us, even more money for insurance companies.
By Carol Kemp · Sun Feb 25, 2024
2 min read · 3 comments
Firing Up the War Machine
Who benefits? Palestinians are being slaughtered. Genocide. Gaza is being leveled.
By Dianne Foster · Fri Feb 9, 2024
3 min read · 6 comments
Three Wise Men?
The Port Commission has decreed that Bellingham’s waterfront will remain a toxic, festering sore
By Tip Johnson · Tue Jan 9, 2024
4 min read · 6 comments
The ABC Recycling Hook
We needed a hook, and we think we found it.
By David Netboy · Tue Dec 26, 2023
2 min read · 13 comments

Lisa Dekkr

Commenting Since Dec 31, 1969
Health care activist. On the board of PSARA Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Activism

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