Recent NWCitizen Articles

Stop The Nonsense Talk About Public Banking
Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 12, 2020
Management controls will insure the stability of PUBLIC banking. Examples of poor management controls do abound now. It is called the PRIVATE sector banking system.
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Sitting on a Gold Mine?
Tip Johnson · Sun Feb 9, 2020
The best kept secret in the west?
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Expand Your Horizons: Human Rights Film Festival, 2/20 – 2/29
· Sun Feb 9, 2020
Barbara Rofkar explains the evolution of the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival, why it’s important, and what’s coming up.
Water Resource Planning: Prepare - Or Take Our Chances?
Eric Hirst · Thu Feb 6, 2020
Water industry planning differs greatly from electric industry planning and here is the reason.
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Hearing on Public Banking Bill - January 28th
Dick Conoboy · Tue Feb 4, 2020
State Senator Hasegawa continues to push for legislation creating a public bank in Washington.
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RING! RING! Rama Lama Ding Dong…
Dick Conoboy · Sun Feb 2, 2020
Installing that RING video doorbell may have a cost…your privacy.
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More NEW Taxes?  No!  Just CONTINUED Support for Bellingham Schools
Tom Dohman · Sat Feb 1, 2020
Tom Dohman seeks to clarify Propositions 2020-9 and 2020-10 for the Bellingham School District 501.
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300+ New Units, Zero Affordability
Jane Bright · Fri Jan 31, 2020
Can zoning changes and increasing density solve the affordable housing shortage?
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Unity Village Will Have a New Site. Thank you, Mayor Fleetwood and Director Sepler!
Lisa E. Papp · Tue Jan 28, 2020
Homes NOW’s Unity Village to move to new COB-owned site in May 2020. Thank you to Mayor Fleetwood, Planning Director Sepler, and Police Chief Doll.
CityView Apartment Development - Update III
Dick Conoboy · Mon Jan 27, 2020
Indications are that the developer intends to go forward with his application for the CityView dormitory style project with 408 beds.
Jail Tax: Third Time’s a Charm?
Tip Johnson · Wed Jan 22, 2020
Council Rebukes Justice Advocates and Voters
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Bellingham Parking Fees Go to Volkswagen
Dick Conoboy · Sat Jan 18, 2020
Your PayByPhone app sends a flat fee of 25 cents per transaction to the coffers of Volkswagen Financial Services AG
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Unity Village Needs a Permit Extension. Please, Mayor Fleetwood, Can You Help?
Lisa E. Papp · Thu Jan 16, 2020
Vague language in the current permit may result in not getting a badly needed extension for Unity Village for the homeless in Fairhaven.
Who’s Running Your Neighborhood Association? And Why Care?
Karen Steen · Tue Jan 14, 2020
A tour d’horizon of the state of the Mayor’s Neighborhood Advisory Commission.
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Advice to City Council on Scooters: Hasten Slowly
Dick Conoboy · Mon Jan 13, 2020
Electrified scooters may bring with them unintended and undesirable consequences, some ecological, some financial, and some lethal.
Bellingham City Council To Support Public Banking
Dick Conoboy · Thu Jan 9, 2020
Council moved to have staff develop a resolution in support of public banking legislation in Washington state.
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Alex Ramel appointed as 40th District state representative
John Servais · Mon Jan 6, 2020
Alex Ramel was chosen today by votes of three county councils to a vacated seat on the state Legislature.
We Have Failed to Adequately Protect Bellingham’s Great Blue Herons
Jamie K. Donaldson · Thu Jan 2, 2020
A superb update of where we are as a community on protecting Bellingham’s only Great Blue Heron colony.
Unity Village Tiny Home Community Requests Permit Extension
Lisa E. Papp · Mon Dec 30, 2019
A timely update on Unity Village temporary homes in Fairhaven - plus the petition being circulated to allow the village a permit extension.
Senator Bob Hasegawa to Speak to City Council on Public Banking - 16 December
Dick Conoboy · Mon Dec 9, 2019
For the third time this year Sen Hasegawa will travel to Whatcom County to deliver a talk on public banking in Washington State.
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Ray Kamada

Commenting Since Jul 27, 2020
retired NOAA/DoD consultant and atmospheric scientist, formerly adjunct assnt. professor and head of the Environmental Physics Group at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.

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