Recent NWCitizen Articles

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.
YIMBYs: It Was Never About Affordability
Scott Jones · Mon Feb 10, 2025
Affordability has been a ruse for creating market rate housing.
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Ask City Council to Do Right by Us
Jon Humphrey · Sat Feb 8, 2025
Represent Us and Our Interests. Please!
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Bellingham City Council Resolution on the $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank
Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 5, 2025
Local action in support of a proposal to rebuild nationwide infrastructure
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Truth, Justice and the American Way
Tip Johnson · Mon Jan 27, 2025
Who’s Superman when you need him? We are.
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Corporate Welfare at its Worst …and About to Get Worse
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.
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State Budget Crisis? Stop Paying Private Banks!
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.
Gabbard and Hegseth.  Why Are They Not Profoundly Ashamed?
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.
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New Trump Administration Expected To Undo Biden’s Financial Regulation
Marco Rosaire Rossi · Sun Nov 24, 2024
Chaos likely to ensue. Catastrophe cannot be ruled out.
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The Tyranny Of Leaf Blowers
Roseanne Laan · Thu Nov 14, 2024
There is no escape from the deep-throated roar and the clouds of filth produced by these machines.
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The Election of Donald Trump
John Servais · Thu Nov 7, 2024
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
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Veterans Day, 2024.  What Is To Be Done?
Dick Conoboy · Mon Nov 4, 2024
Deeds, not talk, count on Veterans Day
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How Do You Spell Budget And Disaster Relief?  N…I…B
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.
Medicare Advantage Open Season And YOU Are The $$$ Target
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.
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An Overlooked Benefit of Improved Internet Access in Whatcom County: The U.S. Census
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.
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Minimum Wage - Farce or Tragedy?
Dick Conoboy · Sat Oct 19, 2024
Or perhaps tragic farce or farcical tragedy might be more apt descriptors. Pick one, or both.
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I'm a volunteer for HomesNOW, a 41 year human rights advocate in Bellingham, WA. I write articles for Whatcom Watch occasionally. I post often on my Facebook groups and community pages, notably: Bellingham Be Free Humans For Gaia Bellingham Homeless Outreach and more. See Lynnette Allen on FB and on YouTube.

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