Pfofile Ryan Knowlton

Ryan Knowlton

Bellingham · Commenting Since Jan 23, 2017
3rd generation Whatcom county resident

Recent NWCitizen Articles

Long Run
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 19, 2006
Milton Friedman died at 94 years of age last week. Friedman was the maverick economist who implemented monetarist policies beginning with the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. As
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Hot Button
By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 16, 2006
The war in Iraq is widely regarded to have been the “hot button” issue of the last election. I don’t buy it. Americans seem to like a good fight. After all, we get into a lot of them. The problem with
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Plenty more to flush
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 12, 2006
Bellingham’s new, old mayor, Tim Douglas, got off to a great running start at his new job by dealing quickly and firmly with an important issue that threatened to embarrass the City forever - the form
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Killers or Healers?
By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 9, 2006
Congratulations, Americans. That was certainly worth voting for! Voters thoroughly routing the entrenched Neo-Con administration will help restore our world image, so badly damaged since re-electing t
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Electile Dysfunction
By Tip Johnson · Mon Nov 6, 2006
Nope. I didn’t make it up. It’s from the subtitle of a book by Steve Bhaerman, under the pen name Swami Beyondananda. I have to admire the guy. At least he can laugh about it. But Americans should do
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The 16% Solution
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 5, 2006
Results from the 17th year of a poll routinely taken by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News show that only 16 percent approve of the job Congress is doing. 52 percent of those polled said they’d pref
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Swirling Logo
By Tip Johnson · Sun Nov 5, 2006
Hopefully the City’s new swirling logo will flush itself before it ends up glued on vehicles and emblazoned on letterhead. It’s horrible, but that’s only half the story. And we will probably never get
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The Truth Fairy
By Tip Johnson · Sat Nov 4, 2006
Heading into the last days of this election season, George Bush and his Neo-Con Republicans have been strumming a familiar tune to promote their candidates. Republicans, they say, will

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My name is Tip Johnson.
By Tip Johnson · Fri Nov 3, 2006
Gentle readers,

My name is Tip Johnson. The usual editor of this publication has asked me to fill in for a bit while he is busy with other matters. Some of you have already written, following h
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Website restructuring
By John Servais · Thu Nov 2, 2006
After today, a friend will take over writing to this space for a few weeks. I’ll let him introduce himself to you. I’ve some personal things that need my full attention for the next month or two. Even
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Do you vote your emotions, not your mind?
By John Servais · Wed Nov 1, 2006
Now Karl Rove starts his directing of emotional outrage comments on most any news item that is handy - in his effort to get people to vote with their emotions of the moment and not with their mind. Ro
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One of the finest journalistic minds in America
By John Servais · Mon Oct 30, 2006
George Will is a respected conservative columnist - and I invite you to read his current column in Newsweek. It is two pages - not long - and please read to the last two-word sentence. You know George
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Free Rick
By John Servais · Sun Oct 29, 2006
Free Rick Larsen is a new website by anti-war activists in Bellingham. These are serious citizens whom Rick has dissed and ignored. One has even been banned from his office for the rest of her life. T
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Attemped murder ignored?
By John Servais · Sat Oct 28, 2006
Did Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad shoot and wound Margot in Bellingham back in 2002? NwCitizen raised this question in October 2002 and Bellingham Police Chief Randy Carroll laughed at the su
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Military blocked from some websites
By John Servais · Fri Oct 27, 2006
The Pentagon is blocking liberal websites, such as Wonkette, from our military in Iraq. Blatant censorship and violation of free speech and press - don’t let the soldiers know there are questions abou
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How a democracy overthrows a government without killing
By John Servais · Thu Oct 26, 2006
We will have sent over 100 young Americans to their deaths in Iraq in October. The highest in almost two years. And the 4th month of increasing deaths. And perhaps up to 1,000 to a life with injuries
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“Staying the course”
By John Servais · Wed Oct 25, 2006
Why we need to vote for Rick Larsen and win a Democratic Party majority in the House of Representatives is illustrated in this new TV ad for Democrats. The ad highlights the absurdity of Bush now sayi
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Do it for America
By John Servais · Mon Oct 23, 2006
Want to do something to end the war in Iraq? Then vote for Rick Larsen. And Maria Cantwell. Rick’s seat is not secure. If even a small percent - say 5% - of liberals who are strongly anti-war refuse t
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Hold your nose, but vote
By John Servais · Sun Oct 22, 2006
Gentle reader - if you are liberal and against the war, then please please vote for Rick Larsen. Hold your nose, but vote for him. And, a bit easier, vote for Maria Cantwell. I am meeting frien
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All fantasy
By John Servais · Sat Oct 21, 2006
We started to see it yesterday and by next weekend it will be well known. Bush is setting a timetable for pullout from Iraq - and the “October” surprise may well be a plan for getting out of Iraq - “w
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