Recent NWCitizen Articles

Jimmy Buffett, philosopher
By Larry Horowitz · Sat Aug 16, 2008
Thanks to all who responded to my last column - “Is anybody out there?” - both on the Northwest Citizen website and personally by email. From you, I have received great encouragement and
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Is anybody out there?
By Larry Horowitz · Fri Aug 15, 2008
Here’s a confession. I hate writing columns for this blog. They take time away from other things I’d rather be doing, and they certainly don’t engender any new friendships. In fac
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“Anixation”
By g.h.kirsch · Thu Aug 14, 2008
What’s a county council to make of it? One year its largest city asks for thousands of acres to accommodate its growth, hardly a year later it’s declining to annex areas designated for growth a decad
War and Information control
By John Servais · Mon Aug 11, 2008
The power of censorship and news control is on display for all who care to look around. Today, the online maps of the country of Georgia have no roads. None. And very little other information. Ju
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Chuckanut Ridge: The real land supply implications
By Larry Horowitz · Sat Aug 9, 2008
On his personal blog, former City Councilman John Watts has written a column entitled, “Chuckanut Ridge: Land Supply Implications” in which he concludes, “without a reasonable level
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Could What We Don’t Know Hurt Us?
By Tip Johnson · Wed Aug 6, 2008
BELLINGHAM BAY DOESN’T MIX

In 1957, E. N. Steele documented the effects of pulp mill pollution on native oyster stocks in “The Rise and Decline of the Olympia Oyster”.
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The thousand acre dilemma: Part 1.5 – Now is the time to solve it!
By Larry Horowitz · Fri Aug 1, 2008
In “The thousand acre dilemma: Part 1” we introduced the $69 million quandary Bellingham officials are currently wrestling with: How does the city provide parks for the 13,000 or so resid
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Unaffordable Housing?
By Tip Johnson · Wed Jul 30, 2008
Today’s Bellingham Herald has an interesting article on a report recently released by the Countywide Housing Affordability Task force.
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The Park in Reality
By g.h.kirsch · Wed Jul 30, 2008
Rand Jack, long associated with the Whatcom Land Trust and its organizers, has published what he feels are compelling reasons for the County Council to approve and fund the development of a park in t
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Posting & Pandering
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Jul 26, 2008
The turnout and turnaround that took place Tuesday at the County Council was interesting from another perspective. After days and weeks of apparently strong public opposition on the Herald’s blogs to
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Bill Mize Forum starts the season
By John Servais · Thu Jul 24, 2008
The informal kickoff to the campaign season is the Bill Mize forum at the Rome Grange each summer. As always, it was great political theater and was broadcast live on KGMI. Before you think i
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The thousand acre dilemma: Part 1
By Larry Horowitz · Sun Jul 20, 2008
As a community, we ‘hamsters absolutely love our parks. It’s too bad we’ll have significantly fewer to love in the future compared with the level city officials had planned f
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How Crime Pays: The Neo Con
By g.h.kirsch · Sat Jul 19, 2008
For several decades now we have dismantled the system of restrictions on wealth thought necessary to prevent economic catastrophe like the one that befell us in the early part of the last century. We
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Sue Me, Sue You, Soufle
By Ham Hayes · Thu Jul 17, 2008
At the Port of Bellingham meeting this week, the Commissioners voted to sue the City over failure to resolve a water connection issue at the airport. It would appear that the Port has strong a
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Crosscut has Whatcom Indy story
By John Servais · Thu Jul 10, 2008
Crosscut in Seattle has posted an article on the closing of the Whatcom Independent. If you were a reader of the Indy then you may enjoy this article by Jon Sayer.

As one of the founders and
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Bellingham Herald thoughts
By John Servais · Tue Jul 8, 2008
First off, I read the Herald thoroughly every day and have subscribed for decades. Local news is vital for us citizens. However, my criticism of the Herald is well known in this community and
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Crackdown
By Tip Johnson · Mon Jul 7, 2008
In the run-up to this fourth of July, there were articles in the local daily and a fair amount of discussion about fireworks. Word was that the local constabulary were poised for a crackdown. Judgin
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Uncharted Future
By Myron Wlaznak · Fri Jul 4, 2008
Over the past few years, I’ve written in other venues about profound impacts we can expect to our daily lives from fundamental changes in a rapidly evolving world. Some of the changes are subtle
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Weather - June Temperatures for Bellingham
By John Servais · Tue Jul 1, 2008
Bill McCallum has sent us the June chart of temperatures. As you can see, we had another cold month. Bill notes:

“Temperatures have been below normal for the past year, not just this spring.
Deja vu All Over Again
By g.h.kirsch · Mon Jun 30, 2008
No matter how one hopes things will change, things remain the same. Bellingham wants the county to curb development in the watershed, but can’t seem to stop allowing the infrastructure that su
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