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Thankful we have Elfo
By John Servais · Fri Sep 28, 2007
Let us be glad our Whatcom County Sheriff, Bill Elfo, is a fellow who has common sense and is not afraid to think. When I was publisher of the Whatcom Independent I got to know him a bit. We have a go
City Club luncheon
By John Servais · Wed Sep 26, 2007
First a bit of news. It seems ACB will not be moving to the outskirts of Ferndale for their expanded manufacturing space. Instead they are negotiating with the Port to move into the soon-to-be-vacant
Lake Whatcom land deal; “technicality” loses Herald’s letters
By John Servais · Tue Sep 25, 2007
Tom Pratum has some good information on the proposed - and still mostly secret - Lake Whatcom land reconveyance plan. He posted it on the North Cascades Audubon Society website, which he runs. It outl
Letters to the Editor—or not
By John Servais · Mon Sep 24, 2007
The Herald continues to sit on the letter criticizing the racist cartoon in the Sat, Sep 15 paper. Last week, editorial page editor Scott Ayers said on his blog that he was out of letters and planned
My posts here were accurate
By John Servais · Sat Sep 22, 2007
The October surprise is a week early. Today’s Herald has the carefully managed news of the land swap that John Watts alerted us to on Sep 11 - and which was then denied by the McShanes, Mitch Friedman
Last night’s forum
By John Servais · Fri Sep 21, 2007
Scott Ayers complains in his blog this morning that he has so few letters to the editor that next Monday he may not have any to print. Yet I know of one letter he has been sitting on - not from me an
Be alert to a skewed process that favors candidates
By John Servais · Thu Sep 20, 2007
One concern about today’s candidate forum. The sponsors have not provided specific information on how the forum will be conducted - and all the sponsors are liberal organizations endorsing candidates.
County candidates first
By John Servais · Wed Sep 19, 2007
First candidate forum is tomorrow evening. Just a reminder. It starts early - at 5:30 pm with snacks and the actual speaking and questions starting at 6 pm. They are putting county candidates first -
A new type of news feature
By John Servais · Tue Sep 18, 2007
Sam Taylor, political reporter for the Herald, appears to have a new type of news feature in today’s paper. He is reporting small but important bits of campaign news in one article. This format, if co
Blatant racist cartoon
By John Servais · Sat Sep 15, 2007
A racist political cartoon in today’s Bellingham Herald shows very poor judgement by the editors. Or else a misunderstanding of what constitutes racism. Or, perhaps the editors are unaware of their ow
Know anyone who will be gone?
By John Servais · Fri Sep 14, 2007
Will you be traveling after October 18? Know someone who will be - and not be here to vote? Working in Alaska? Traveling to Europe? Well, you can vote now - today - at the counter in the Auditors offi
Pratum lays it out
By John Servais · Thu Sep 13, 2007
Tom Pratum has a letter in the current issue of the Cascadia Weekly on page 4 that pretty much demolishes the ‘facts’ in Dan McShane’s letter of last week. No letter of correction from McShane. Pratum
No denials in land swap accusation
By John Servais · Wed Sep 12, 2007
Rather than answer several emails individually, this post will clarify a couple things. First, why is yesterday’s post by John Watts that I praised any different from his late July post that I critici
Prediction of an October Surprise
By John Servais · Tue Sep 11, 2007
An astounding post by John Watts this afternoon on his HamsterTalk website. He has what amounts to a prediction of an October Surprise - implying strongly that it is intended to affect the election. H
An unhealthy self-centered attitude?
By John Servais · Mon Sep 10, 2007
The letter by Dan McShane in the current issue of the Weekly has a few errors in it regarding how Dan voted and such. He wrote the letter to defend his actions on the county council regarding Sudden V
His idea of a solution is a study group
By John Servais · Sun Sep 9, 2007
A sunny Sunday and an interesting time listening to a local politician show how to get on both sides of every issue and not ever be accountable for his own actions.

Terry Bornemann spent an hou
Board was prohibited by law from holding hearing
By John Servais · Thu Sep 6, 2007
Tim Johnson likes to play loose and cute with the facts. His Gristle in the current Weekly is a good example. The first four paragraphs describe the Whatcom County Boundary Review Board’s recent decis
A new local liberal portal website
By John Servais · Mon Sep 3, 2007
Have added a new link to a local liberal portal website - Mainstreampolitics. This is run from Whatcom County and has links to many blogs and selected online articles about the Northwest. The link is
Herald wants to add interest
By John Servais · Sun Sep 2, 2007
The Herald wants to know what it can do to make elections more “interesting”. Boy, I thought I’d get three days off and then Scott Ayers writes this nonsense in today’s paper. Scott really talks down
On vote totals and viability
By John Servais · Fri Aug 31, 2007
A morning comment or two on the election and then time to enjoy the long weekend. No pretension to any real insights. Just a bit on what most of us are noticing and reliable insiders - political junki

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