Recent NWCitizen Articles

Gridlock In The Making - An Update
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Jun 7, 2020
A developer’s meeting with Samish neighbors sheds more light on the Samish View Development.
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Opening Our Streets – A Golden Opportunity
By Stoney Bird · Sat Jun 6, 2020
How and why we can change the use of many urban streets to activities other than exclusive use for cars and trucks. They are our public spaces for use as we see best.
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Early-Warning Covid-19 Alert for San Juan County and Other Seasonal Resort Communities
By David A. Swanson · Tue Jun 2, 2020
Summer visitors are likely to bring COVID-19 to previously unaffected or lightly affected seasonal communities requiring a model for risk evaluation and adaptive responses.
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Gridlock in the Making
By Dick Conoboy · Fri May 29, 2020
With three apartment complexes (about 700 tenants ) added to the congested area around the Samish/I-5 bridge, the situation is about to get “interesting”.
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Bellingham Herald Reprints Seattle Times Article - But With Edit
By John Servais · Fri May 29, 2020
How the Herald reports Bellingham news by reprinting articles from the Seattle Times - but cannot even do that honestly.
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ACLU Files Suit for the Firing of Dr. Ming Lin
By John Servais · Thu May 28, 2020
The ACLU this morning filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination of Dr Lin, the emergency room doctor who spoke out about lack of safe procedutes at St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham.
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Would Adjudication Resolve Nooksack River Water Issues?
By Eric Hirst · Tue May 19, 2020
Having certainty about one’s water rights would allow users to negotiate with greater confidence than they now have.
CityView Apartment Development - Update V
By Dick Conoboy · Mon May 18, 2020
Opponents of this project await a public meeting before the city’s Planning Commission, possibly in June.
Corner of Elwood and Lincoln Soon to Be a Wee Tad Crowded
By Dick Conoboy · Sat May 16, 2020
Elwood Edge Apartments at Elwood and Lincoln will add 154 to 186 tenants to the already congested area at the Samish Way overpass. But don’t go away. There is more.
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The Testing of Three Northwest Counties
By Michael Riordan · Thu May 14, 2020
An opinionated review of how the novel coronavirus struck Skagit, San Juan and Whatcom Counties, with a focus on the lessons learned.
The Pandemic And A Depression
By · Tue May 12, 2020
Our guest writer takes us through an explanation of inflation and deflation in the time of COVID-19
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Politicizing COVID-19
By Ho See-Wing · Tue May 12, 2020
An analysis of the emerging China bashing for political purposes and why it is so misplaced. A Chinese-American, who grew up in Hong Kong and lived many years in Texas, gives us his perspective.
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CityView Dormitory Complex - Please Don’t Approve This Proposal
By Alex McLean · Sun May 10, 2020
A straightforward assessment of the CityView dormitory apartment complex proposal.
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MintTheCoin - Money for everyone
By · Fri May 8, 2020
Our guest writer makes a case for the minting of one or more trillion dollar coins as a funding mechanism in the time of COVID-19 and a collapsing economy.
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The Lack of Containment Measures: Does It Constitute Senicide?
By David A. Swanson · Thu May 7, 2020
Senicide is a term not oft used but it is making a resurgence in this time of pandemic.
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Still a Dormitory, Still in Non-Compliance
By · Wed May 6, 2020
A comprehensive overview of the CityView private dormitory complex proposed for the Puget Neighborhood.
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WWU - Western - Dislikes Trees
By John Servais · Mon May 4, 2020
Western Washington University seems to hate trees as they remove 48 more beautiful fir trees this week from the campus.
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Monitoring the COVID-19 Pandemic in Benton County: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By David A. Swanson · Mon May 4, 2020
Hotspots like the one in the Benton county in Washington may prove to have a higher level, chronic COVID-19 infection rate as the governor attempts to re-open the economy.
Whatcom County COVID-19: The Final Report
By David A. Swanson · Fri May 1, 2020
Dr. David Swanson gives us his final report on the trajectory of COVID-19’s rise in the county.
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CityView Apartment Development - Update IV
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Apr 26, 2020
The developer has submitted a complete application for a 106 unit dormitory apartment complex with 318 residents.
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