Recent NWCitizen Articles

The Election of Donald Trump
By John Servais · Thu Nov 7, 2024
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
4 min read · 19 comments
Veterans Day, 2024.  What Is To Be Done?
By Dick Conoboy · Mon Nov 4, 2024
Deeds, not talk, count on Veterans Day
2 min read · 2 comments
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How Do You Spell Budget And Disaster Relief?  N…I…B
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Oct 27, 2024
An off-budget $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank (NIB), along the lines of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) that operated between 1932-1957, means low-cost loans and no additions to the deficit.
2 min read
Medicare Advantage Open Season And YOU Are The $$$ Target
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Oct 23, 2024
Medicare Advantage is NOT Medicare. Medicare is there to provide health care. Medicare Advantage is a business, there to make money.
2 min read · 1 comment
An Overlooked Benefit of Improved Internet Access in Whatcom County: The U.S. Census
By David A. Swanson · Mon Oct 21, 2024
David Swanson verifies what Jon Humphrey has said for years: good internet access benefits people, cities, counties, and states.
5 min read · 10 comments
Minimum Wage - Farce or Tragedy?
By Dick Conoboy · Sat Oct 19, 2024
Or perhaps tragic farce or farcical tragedy might be more apt descriptors. Pick one, or both.
3 min read · 13 comments
The Big Ask
By NWCitizen Management · Wed Oct 16, 2024
After nearly 30 years online, and literally being one of the oldest blogs on the internet, Northwest Citizen needs a major programming overhaul. To do so, we need your help.
4 min read · 1 comment
The Disturbing Disappearance of Local Banks
By Marco Rosaire Rossi · Thu Sep 19, 2024
The top 20% of commercial banks in the United States control 95% of our total banking assets. Remember “Too-Big-to-Fail”?
4 min read · 3 comments
How To Get Nothing Done
By Jon Humphrey · Sat Aug 24, 2024
The City has created another useless document ensuring nothing changes and mediocre communication services are protected.
6 min read · 13 comments
You haven’t voted yet? Check out this idea for one of your votes.
By John Servais · Mon Aug 5, 2024
Why a vote for Jason Call for Congress is a good vote for conservatives, liberals, Democrats and Republicans. Yes, an unusual idea.
2 min read
First Murray. Now Larsen. Half Trillion Dollar Theft From Medicare: Not An Issue.
By Dick Conoboy · Sat Jul 27, 2024
Heaven forbid our reps should attack the main problem, Medicare Advantage, head on. But no. They must nibble around the edges to give the appearance of doing something.
4 min read · 1 comment
Moral Injury Links Medicare Advantage Physicians To Combat Veterans
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Jun 16, 2024
Morally significant double binds force doctors and combat soldiers into identical life and death quandaries, damaging their moral centers. To these two groups we can also add law enforcement officers.
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Nooksack Adjudication vs. State Water Law?
By Eric Hirst · Fri Jun 14, 2024
Eric Hirst gives us a brief and clear explanation of the water adjudication process that is beginning now in Whatcom County
2 min read · 3 comments
The Scrap Heap - The Real Message
By David Netboy · Wed Jun 12, 2024
Aggressive citizen involvement carried the day.
3 min read · 5 comments
The Wealth Of Real Estate Corporations Is Not Our Purpose For Being
By Carol Follett · Tue Jun 11, 2024
Build-for-profit, incarceration-inspired housing is destroying our souls.
4 min read · 11 comments
All Remaining ABC Scrap Metal Is On Ship
By John Servais · Mon Jun 10, 2024
The last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone from our town.
1 min read · 1 comment
A Walking Tour at the Core of the Explosion
By John Servais · Mon Jun 10, 2024
A 54-photo tour of the ruptured pipe area of the Whatcom Creek explosion taken in July 1999.
2 min read · 1 comment
The Audio of the Pipeline Explosion
By John Servais · Sat Jun 8, 2024
Below is an audio tape of 911 calls, emergency responders’ radio communications, and local radio coverage from June 10, 1999 when Whatcom Creek exploded in Bellingham
1 min read · 2 comments

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