Recent NWCitizen Articles

Let’s Do Stupid All Over Again
Dick Conoboy · Wed Dec 21, 2016
Banks are loosening their lending standards again. Just the ticket for a collapse.
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Assassins, Fake News, and Asymmetric War
David Camp · Tue Dec 20, 2016
A brief commentary on recent events and their historical context.
A Water Shortage Problem, NOT a Water Shortage
Elisabeth Britt · Mon Dec 19, 2016
A counter to Hirst’s position. An insightful overview of the current situation with Whatcom County’s exempt water wells and the unfair building moratorium the council has put on rural property owners.
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The missing Link
Tip Johnson · Thu Dec 15, 2016
Do we need more events, or more cool things to do?
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Hearing Examiner Halts Seattle’s ADU Ordinance
Dick Conoboy · Thu Dec 15, 2016
The hearing examiner sent Seattle’s planners back to the drawing board on its ADU environmental impact study.
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Use it or Lose it
David Camp · Tue Dec 13, 2016
A brief essay on the merits of exercise
In Praise of Countrymen - Pas de Pays sans Paysans
David Camp · Tue Dec 6, 2016
A brief essay, an homage, to people of the country. Country People.
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Swift Creek, loaded with asbestos and heavy metals, is getting out of control
Ralph Schwartz · Mon Dec 5, 2016
A rainy autumn is worsening the Swift Creek landslide, and a long-term fix seems nowhere in sight.
Amendment to Planning Commission Ordinance Passes Unanimously
Dick Conoboy · Mon Dec 5, 2016
Today the city council unanimously approved an amendment to the Planning Commission ordinance to avoid group bias by limiting (to three) appointments of those with ties to development.
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The Great Deceleration
Dick Conoboy · Sun Dec 4, 2016
While the push is for ever greater economic acceleration, deceleration is the counter-intuitive solution for the future.
County Rural Residents Can Check On Water
Elisabeth Britt · Sat Dec 3, 2016
The state DOE has prepared an interactive map that allows rural property owners to check on water resources for their property.
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PDC Staff Suggests Gentle Wrist Pat for Campaign Violations
John Servais · Sat Dec 3, 2016
The 2015 county jail campaign for the hundred million dollar tax levy was illegally managed, according to the staff report of our Public Disclosure Commission.
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Interim Ordinance on Rural Water Wells is Essential
Eric Hirst · Sat Dec 3, 2016
Eric Hirst responds to Elisabeth Britt’s article about the legal and physical issues of our rural Whatcom County water wells for homes, farms and businesses.
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Behind the Real Estate Bubble
Dick Conoboy · Wed Nov 30, 2016
A dissection of why housing values go up and so much more.
Forbidden Topics: Conquest, Slavery, and Race
David Camp · Tue Nov 29, 2016
Taken from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The anti-DAPL activists camped out here asked for no photographs to be taken inside the camp for privacy reasons - so this panoramic view is all I had permission to publish.
Anatomy of a Development Part XIII - It’s Baaaaaack!
Dick Conoboy · Mon Nov 28, 2016
There is renewed interest in yet another large student dormitory project in the Puget Neighborhood.
Water Well Drilling Moratorium is Bad Idea
Elisabeth Britt · Fri Nov 25, 2016
A counter to the Eric Hirst inspired decision of the county council to clamp a total moratorium on drilling new water wells in Whatcom County - and thus a home building ban.
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Well Drilling & the Burden of Proof
Elisabeth Britt · Fri Nov 25, 2016
The county council is holding a public hearing.
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