Recent NWCitizen Articles

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Is That the Way This Works? Really??
By Barbara Plaskett · Mon Jun 2, 2025
Planning Commission member and voice for the city’s low-income, Barbara Plaskett, was a shoe-in for a second term—until three city council members sank her. What did she do “wrong?”
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Scamming Our Veterans - It Never Ends
By Dick Conoboy · Fri May 30, 2025
The willingness, the capability, the persistence, and the unmitigated gall to scam our veterans knows no bounds.
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Listening To Our Dead Soldiers - Memorial Day 2025
By Dick Conoboy · Fri May 23, 2025
Visit a military cemetery. The soldiers are talking to us.
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Lake Whatcom Dissolved Oxygen Study
By · Sat May 17, 2025
Oxygen levels in Lake Whatcom are dangerously low.
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Trump’s Wolkenkuckucksheim*
By David A. Swanson · Wed Apr 23, 2025
“Opinions don’t affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you’re rational.”—Ricky Gervais
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Rural Hospitals and the Medicare (Dis)Advantage Ripoff
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Apr 20, 2025
Elon Musk could easily reclaim several hundred billion dollars by attacking fraud, waste, and abuse within the Medicare (Dis)Advantage program.
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Who is the Real Andrew Reding?
By Jon Humphrey · Mon Apr 14, 2025
A critique of Andrew Reding's public and political actions as he prepares to run for a seat on the Bellingham City Council.
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From Scarcity to Stability: Rewriting the Housing Blueprint
By Kerri Burnside · Tue Apr 8, 2025
Bellingham needs a new approach to low cost housing.
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Congressional Gold Medal Legislation Reintroduced For The Donut Dollies
By Dick Conoboy · Thu Mar 13, 2025
A bi-partisan bill to honor the Vietnam service of the Red Cross Donut Dollies was reintroduced by Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) on March 11th.
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Privatize Medicare? Perish The Thought...But Wait!
By Dick Conoboy · Tue Mar 11, 2025
Now that I think of it, half of Medicare has already been privatized under Bush, Obama, Trump 45, and Biden.
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City Council Fails Us Again
By 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
By 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
By Christopher Grannis · Sun Feb 16, 2025
New 33-unit project makes matters worse
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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.
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YIMBYs: It Was Never About Affordability
By 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
By Jon Humphrey · Sat Feb 8, 2025
Represent Us and Our Interests. Please!
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