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Bellingham Herald editors cannot count
By John Servais · Mon Mar 19, 2007
Front page headline this morning reads “War enters fourth year”. Sorry, it is entering the fifth year. This for their most bold headline - and probably seen by 5 or 10 people before it ran. Unfortunat
Ellen Murphy trial update
By · Sat Mar 17, 2007
The Ellen Murphy trial took an unexpected turn today, (Thursday, March 15).
No politicians at awards banquet
By John Servais · Thu Mar 15, 2007
A telling point was made last evening at the annual Business Person of the Year awards banquet sponsored by the Northwest Business Monthly.
Ellen Murphy trial update- Mar 15
By · Thu Mar 15, 2007
The House of Representatives legal council today filed a multi-page Motion to Quash the subpoena requiring Rep. Rick Larsen to appear in Bellingham Court on March 20.
Ellen Murphy update; by Sharon Crozier
By · Sun Mar 11, 2007
Congressman Rick Larsen has (so far) successfully avoided the process server who is waiting to hand him a subpoena to appear in the trial of war protester Ellen Murphy of Bellingham.
Mayors-in-waiting; Congressional Hearings
By John Servais · Fri Mar 9, 2007
Gene Knutson, 14-year city council member, is running for mayor. He has his kickoff fund raiser at the Squalicum Boathouse next Thursday, Mar 15. Gene is well liked as a council member who has always
Larsen: a cold political operator
By John Servais · Sun Mar 4, 2007
Ellen Murphy is now allowed to enter the Federal Building in Bellingham. With the court dismissal of the Oct. 20 trespass charge, the lifetime ban on entering the building was also dropped. (This took
Protesters Murphy and Ahmath
By John Servais · Fri Feb 23, 2007
Ellen Murphy’s court date has been changed. Her jury trial will be on Tuesday, March 20 ( not Feb 27 as posted below last week). It was changed - after being set by the Muni Court at the earlie
Kafka and the Wizard of Oz
By John Servais · Thu Feb 15, 2007
City of Bellingham prosecutor was forced to dismiss the October 20, 2006 trespassing charge against Ellen Murphy in Municipal Court today. Ellen will still stand trial on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 9 am bef
What a bunch of hooey!
By Tip Johnson · Wed Feb 14, 2007
The Pentagon, after weeks of delay, finally trotted out the “irrefutable evidence” that Iran is supplying deadly weapons to Iraqi “insurgents”. Wow! They produced two tables of weaponry with Iranian m
A forum on voting integrity
By John Servais · Sun Feb 11, 2007
On Sat, Feb 24, there is a forum on voting integrity at the Bellingham Library downstairs lecture room from 10 am to noon. From their press release it looks good. James Johan sent the release, Marian
Three corrections
By John Servais · Sat Feb 10, 2007
Today we have three corrections that apply to the Feb 6 post below. The corrections are important but do not change the thrust of the article - and indeed put even more of an accusation against Congre
Doth she protesteth too much?
By John Servais · Tue Feb 6, 2007
Ellen Murphy has the courage to practice classic civil protest - to publicly bring her questions about the Iraq war to Rick Larsen, our US Congress Representative. And for daring to do that, it appear
Response to Bellingham Herald editorial
By John Servais · Thu Jan 25, 2007
Today’s Bellingham Herald editorial invites an answer. The editorial is good in that it reflects on past bad practices, like allowing GP to dump mercury into Bellingham Bay, and the editorial goes on
Library/garage
By John Servais · Fri Jan 19, 2007
If you have arrived at this website for the first time as a result of the link posted in today’s Bellingham Herald article about branch libraries, then I welcome you and hope you return occasionally.
Welcome to Rick Larsen . . .
By John Servais · Tue Jan 16, 2007
… welcome to the correct side of the Iraq war issue. Rick spoke yesterday at Bellingham city hall and, according to the Bellingham Herald, he switched his stand and now favors a partial pullout of
Democrats erring; remembering Paul Roley
By John Servais · Sat Jan 13, 2007
OK, my Democratic Party friends. Deal with this - like Barney Frank would not. He shouted down a Senator who dared to reveal this on the Senate floor. The hypocrisy stinks. If this is the lily-pure 10
A new way to select our next president
By John Servais · Fri Jan 12, 2007
Unity08 - a new way to select and elect our next president. Worth our effort to check out and consider. For conservatives and liberals. For those of us who do not like the dominance of money in our po
War with Iran
By John Servais · Fri Jan 12, 2007
The news analysts are finally realizing that Bush’s speech was a declaration of war on Iran. I posted that minutes after the speech and revisited it yesterday. We are dragging out the detention of the
War - war and more war
By John Servais · Thu Jan 11, 2007
Juan Cole provides an excellent if longish read on Bush’s new plan for the Iraq war. In particular he points out how many of the infiltrators and weapons are coming not from Syria or Iran but from Jor

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