Recent NWCitizen Articles

Does FoxNews lie and distort the news
By John Servais · Sat Jan 3, 2004
to fit their conservative agenda? Yes. On a daily basis. Here is a nice example.

“Dean Attack on Kerry Farm Vote Backfires” reads the headline of a Jan 2 article suggesting Dean has accused Ker
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The dismantling of civil liberties
By John Servais · Sun Dec 28, 2003
I see the Bham Herald has taken to printing US war dead on the back pages. Maybe some directive came down from Gannett headquarters telling all 80-some Gannettoids to print this awkward bad news in th
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Check the War and Peace links
By John Servais · Thu Dec 18, 2003
May I urge you, gentle reader and patriotic American, to check the War and Peace website links on the right. Look for articles that may give you more facts and information on what our country is doing
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The capture of Saddam Hussein today
By John Servais · Sun Dec 14, 2003
is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another for Iraq and also for the United States.

If your reaction to reading those words is “dahhh” then pause a moment and consider what you thin
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How much did George W know before 9/11
By John Servais · Wed Dec 3, 2003
about the impending attack? Enough to have stopped the attack? The widow of a fellow killed in the attack has refused the $1 million from the government and is suing George W and his advisors. And she
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Obviously a no-win situation
By John Servais · Tue Dec 2, 2003
I urge you to visit the independent websites that report on events in Iraq. Independent being those not owned by US corporate media, such as CNN, Fox, MSNbc, etc. The independent War and Peace sites a
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Their Blood is on Bush’s Hands
By John Servais · Mon Nov 24, 2003
Here is a link to an excellent Flash-style animation about soldiers dying in Iraq.
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Lack of environmental enforcement
By John Servais · Sun Nov 23, 2003
of some local developers is plain to see in this photo essay at the Lake Whatcom website. The WA Dept of Ecology has enforcement folks tooling around in their spiffy pickups, but no enforcement for th
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Suspicious activity
By John Servais · Sat Nov 22, 2003
Today’s Herald has a human interest story about Greg Grant who hired sniper John Muhammad for yard chores a year ago - just a couple weeks before his rampage of killing. This past week, Greg testified
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The Port has reversed itself
By John Servais · Tue Nov 18, 2003
and has hired a private fueling firm for the airport, according to today’s Bham Herald. Remember a couple years ago, summer of 2001, the port terminated Alpha Aviation, saying the Port would run fueli
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An analysis of the election results
By John Servais · Mon Nov 17, 2003
by Paul de Armond is posted. Paul examines the returns and gives his perspective on what the numbers mean. His is not your conventional approach.

Paul runs the Public Good website and is active
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A fun ‘Dean for President’ event
By John Servais · Sat Nov 15, 2003
It was all fun, very brief, and is how big things get started. Of course they enjoyed the cake after, even without Dean.
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The Northwest Independent News,
By John Servais · Fri Nov 14, 2003
a weekly newspaper based in Bellingham, will start publication next Thursday, Nov 20. It will strive to report local news. Amazing. It will be a tabloid and be distributed throughout Whatcom County. Y
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We salute our veterans today.
By John Servais · Tue Nov 11, 2003
Their intentions were to serve our country and they did as they were told and went where they were sent. Our presidents do not always use them correctly, sometimes using them for adventures that have
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Election News
By John Servais · Sat Nov 8, 2003
Brett Bonner sent out his concession statement last night, shortly after the auditor posted the final 7,000+ absentee ballots. It shows class by the fellow who waged a positive and forthright campaign
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Levys should be for extra programs
By John Servais · Thu Nov 6, 2003
Shame on the Bellingham Weekly. Page 3 of today’s paper has “The Slate” with photographs taken at Mark Asmundson’s victory party on Tuesday night. They asked Mark supporters what Brett would do
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It is really hard to replace an incumbent
By John Servais · Wed Nov 5, 2003
Those not sure just vote for the person in office, preferring a sure thing to an unknown. I give my respect to those who took the challenge and ran against entrenched incumbents. Especially Brett Bonn
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Day of our decision.
By John Servais · Tue Nov 4, 2003
County Auditor Shirley Forslof will have the election results posted online as soon as or even before the printed copies are brought out her office door to those of us in the courthouse rotunda. First
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You would never learn that from the Herald
By John Servais · Mon Nov 3, 2003
Sunday’s Herald front page story on the mayor’s race again showed us how to skew reporting to favor your candidate. John Stark does this type of reporting on a regular basis. His story lists controver
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