Recent NWCitizen Articles

Medicare (Dis)Advantage Open Season...Yet Again
By Dick Conoboy · Sat Nov 1, 2025
The choice of plans is yours, but it's akin to playing Russian Roulette with a round in every chamber.
3 min read · 3 comments, most recent 9 hours ago
Notes on election issues and candidates
By John Servais · Thu Oct 30, 2025
With just 5 days until election day, here are some notes that may help you with your ballot.
5 min read · 9 comments, most recent 1 hour ago
Charter Amendments for Whatcom County
By John Servais · Tue Oct 28, 2025
Yes, voting recommendations for those 12 proposed amendments to our Home Rule Charter.
4 min read · 7 comments, most recent 3 days ago
Veterans Administration Boasts About Disability Claims Don't Pass The Smell Test
By Dick Conoboy · Fri Oct 24, 2025
An increase in "provisional" approvals for disability may be the reason for the VA's so-called surge in "completed" disability claims.
3 min read · 1 comment, 8 days ago
National Infrastructure Bank Bill Reintroduced Into The House
By Dick Conoboy · Tue Oct 21, 2025
HR 5356, to establish a $5 trillion bank to develop infrastructure replaces HR 4052 that was originally submitted to the 118th Congress in 2023.
2 min read · 2 comments, most recent 10 days ago
Northwest Citizen: A Community Commitment
By NWCitizen Management · Mon Oct 20, 2025
Maintenance, upgrades, tweaks, and unintended consequences
1 min read
No Kings in Bellingham
By Carol Follett · Sun Oct 19, 2025
A perspective on the Oct 18 No Kings protest.
4 min read · 7 comments, most recent 10 hours ago
ICE: Trump's Brownshirts
By David A. Swanson · Fri Oct 17, 2025
Thugs are thugs, regardless of what they’re wearing.
2 min read · 10 comments, most recent 7 days ago
Vote NO On 8201
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Oct 15, 2025
The resolution would allow the investment of state employee long term care insurance premiums in stocks of private companies
3 min read · 5 comments, most recent 9 days ago
Bellingham By the Numbers
By Jon Humphrey · Fri Oct 10, 2025
When you look at government statistics, we’re not doing so great. What’s going on here?
3 min read · 1 comment, 3 weeks ago
Re-Elect Michael Lilliquist
By Tip Johnson · Mon Oct 6, 2025
Bellingham 6th Ward city council seat has Michael Lilliquist running for re-election.
2 min read · 4 comments, most recent 3 weeks ago
Whatcom County Democratic Party Corruption
By John Servais · Sat Oct 4, 2025
Lisa Anderson exposes dishonesty and bias in local Dems candidate endorsement process.
2 min read · 11 comments, most recent 3 weeks ago
What Is the City of Bellingham Hiding?
By Janet Migaki · Wed Oct 1, 2025
A development on the steep hillsides of Chuckanut Bay - with no environmental study. Really?
2 min read · 1 comment, 4 weeks ago
Medicare Advantage As Elder Abuse
By Dick Conoboy · Mon Sep 1, 2025
Knowingly encouraging Medicare recipients to move to the confiscatory Medicare (Dis)Advantage is abusive
3 min read · 4 comments, most recent 9 days ago
WWU: What Could Have Been
By John Servais · Sat Aug 30, 2025
It didn’t need to be Town vs. Gown
4 min read
Fundraising Through Extortion
By Jon Humphrey · Wed Aug 27, 2025
Is extortion the new method of fundraising in Bellingham?
5 min read · 1 comment
Subdued Excitement? Or...
By Lisa E. Papp · Sun Aug 24, 2025
Is Bellingham really The City of Subdued Excitement? Or is it The City of Poor Choices, Pretend Progressives, and Missed Opportunities?
4 min read · 4 comments, most recent 7 weeks ago
CoB Public Fiber Lease Exists!
By Jon Humphrey · Wed Aug 20, 2025
Whatcom Transit Authority holds a lease on our public fiber. We need to demand access to these resources that we’ve already paid for.
4 min read · 3 comments
Playing With Fire
By Tom Dohman · Mon Aug 18, 2025
Allowing recreational bonfires in Bellingham’s wooded residential areas is asking for disaster
4 min read · 1 comment
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
By David A. Swanson · Mon Jul 28, 2025
Will our declining birth rates be the end of us? Or will it be something quicker?
5 min read · 8 comments

Robert Leib

Commenting Since Feb 15, 2018
Since the passing of my son due to the damage caused to him by the Whatcom County judicial system, I have become a vocal proponent to all causes that will stop the growth of the current jail industry growth that is trying to take hold in Whatcom County.

Total number of comments: 5

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