Recent NWCitizen Articles

These are my observations
By John Servais · Fri Jul 20, 2007
The Southside Forum last night had a packed-house attendance - showing a strong voter interest despite the mid-summer timing of the election and the lack of media coverage.
Incumbents in general minimized problems
By John Servais · Thu Jul 19, 2007
Some thoughts after the League of Women Voters Candidate Forum last night at the Municipal Court building at Girard and C Street. 7 to 8 pm, all 11 city council candidates. 8 to 9 pm, the 5 to 7 mayo
Public hearing started well after 9 pm
By John Servais · Tue Jul 17, 2007
It is not bad enough that the city council schedules the public hearing on our future Shoreline Master Plan for the middle of July - a plan many years in the making and one with two time extensions fr
Does a dynamic campaigning process have a chance?
By John Servais · Mon Jul 16, 2007
Forums. On Wednesday evening, the forum will - gasp - have all city candidates speak and answer questions. But not the County primary candidates. What a loss. This will make for a very long and over-s
Just my guess
By John Servais · Sat Jul 14, 2007
It was a pleasant and still informative meet-and-greet last night at the Democratic Women’s forum. It was more like a Midwest American summer political fest and included a potluck the ladies provided
Silver Beach forum; today’s war; NSDW meeting
By John Servais · Fri Jul 13, 2007
The Silver Beach Neighborhood forum went well last night with about 75 people attending. It was the first public chance for citizens to compare candidates and gauge them for their potential. I could n
Forums and blogging and pits, oh my!
By John Servais · Thu Jul 12, 2007
The Herald does not even follow its own mandates. On Sunday, the editorial said the candidates “…must address 6 big issues.” Must. Then they sent out their own list of 8 questions to council candida
Read all about them
By John Servais · Thu Jul 12, 2007
Election info online is starting to appear in addition to the candidate sites.
- Whatcom Independent - Candidate Forums - except for the one on July 12.
- Cascadia Weekly - candida
Only a government agency would do this.
By John Servais · Mon Jul 9, 2007
The Herald ran an ad for the State Department of Ecology informing us of the web site where we could find the Draft Consent Decree for our waterfront cleanup. Well, it isn’t there. Upon inquir
Ham Hayes’ short and pithy post
By John Servais · Sun Jul 8, 2007
Ham Hayes has posted a well-worded response to the Herald editorial that ran in today’s paper. Ham is running for Bellingham City Council, but he speaks for all local candidates in his short and pithy
It is important that our daily newspaper participate
By John Servais · Sat Jul 7, 2007
The Herald continues to ignore the political campaigns. Nary a word about candidates - and we are just three weeks from the ballots being mailed. Yesterday Scott Ayers wrote on his blog about how he d
Constitution guarantees all “persons” their freedoms.
By John Servais · Wed Jul 4, 2007
Happy Independence Day. To all people residing in the United States, may you have a fun day and may you benefit from the principles of freedom, justice and opportunity that are the foundation o
Libby’s amnesty
By John Servais · Tue Jul 3, 2007
Tried phoning the White House to weigh in with my comment that Bush shows no respect for the rule of law by commuting Libby’s sentence. After a minute of ringing and no answer, I hung up. Sent an emai
A continuation of the Nixon White House
By John Servais · Mon Jul 2, 2007
In a nutshell; “Keep me out of jail or I talk.” So they paid the price. The fall guy is Libby. The criminals - for releasing the name of a CIA undercover agent - are Bush and Cheney. All Libby did was
The Internet is proving to be a great leveler
By John Servais · Fri Jun 29, 2007
Election? Campaigning going on? Gee, how did you know? Our one daily and two weekly newspapers certainly are not telling you. I don’t recall such an absence of coverage just 4+ weeks to voting. I wait
The primary election is only a month away
By John Servais · Wed Jun 27, 2007
We all have to quickly realize something. The primary election is only a month away. It starts August 1 - a Wednesday and exactly 5 weeks from now. The county Auditor’s web page continues to tell us;
Earmarks, pork or spending requests
By John Servais · Thu Jun 21, 2007
We notice Rick Larsen is one of the members of Congress who refuse to release their earmark requests for the Federal Budget. Earmarks, pork or legislatively directed spending requests - he will not ev
One of the more important discussions of the whole year
By John Servais · Tue Jun 19, 2007
Our Whatcom County Council this evening discussed taking long-range planning back from the Executive and putting it under the control of the Council. Barb Brenner and Carl Weimer brought the question
Herald strives but fails
By John Servais · Sun Jun 17, 2007
You know, I’m really trying to not pound on the Bellingham Herald. I’ve subscribed to it for over 20 years and read it every day. It is our daily newspaper and I want it to be good. We all do. But to
International news links
By John Servais · Sat Jun 16, 2007
Am adding another link to international news - to ynetnews.com which is an Israeli site. The idea of keeping a list of suggested links here is you might try one once in a while and perhaps add to your

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