By: Tip Johnson

Steal this Waterfront: Costs without Benefit
By Tip Johnson · Sat Dec 7, 2013
Wherein the direct, indirect, hidden and lost opportunity costs make this a waterfront boondoggle of billions
3 comments
Noballmacare and Setting the False Standard
By Tip Johnson · Thu Nov 14, 2013
Dear Mr. President, There’s a sucker born every minute, and two to take him.
7 comments
The Slaughterhouse Referendum - Citizens Opposing Widespread Slaughter (COWS)
By Tip Johnson · Mon Oct 28, 2013
Wherein we discover why we exert our rights - and grab some more petitions before it’s too late
3 comments
As Goes Slaughter, So Goes Coal
By Tip Johnson · Sun Jun 2, 2013
Wherein various comments are compiled and compounded, and citizens encouraged to act
2 comments
The Waterfront Will Be Safe.  Trust Me!
By Tip Johnson · Sat Apr 13, 2013
Wherein the people who call capping a clean-up say toxics safe enough for day care.
1 comment
Who’s Selling Who Down What River
By Tip Johnson · Sat Apr 13, 2013
Wherein we see how the Ds do the work the Rs can’t get away with
7 comments
Notice of Defect
By Tip Johnson · Mon Apr 8, 2013
Wherein we complain about the City and Port stealing from the public
6 comments
Read All About It!  Cattlemen want slaughter.
By Tip Johnson · Sun Mar 24, 2013
Wherein the Cattlemen define ‘small scale’ as an unlimited number of facilities of up to 50 million live pounds per year.
3 comments
Living Wage and Working Waterfront 101
By Tip Johnson · Sat Mar 23, 2013
Wherein the rate base gets a soaking while officials keep big-bubble toking
7 comments
Legislation and Sausage
By Tip Johnson · Tue Mar 5, 2013
Wherein it’s even worse when the legislation is about sausage
Marine Sanctuary Standards
By Tip Johnson · Sat Mar 2, 2013
Wherein the ironies of life are explored and the necessities of life are contemplated
2 comments
Petition to Establish a Bellingham Art Market
By Tip Johnson · Mon Feb 25, 2013
Wherein artists have to eat, too!
Slaughtering the County Tax Base
By Tip Johnson · Fri Feb 15, 2013
Wherein the Slaughterhouse Ken and Barbie show present Slaughterville, their new vision for Whatcom County
9 comments
Slaughterhouses and Rendering Plants - Videographers Needed
By Tip Johnson · Mon Dec 3, 2012
Wherein citizens must hold their representatives’ feet to the fire
6 comments
Meat Axe or Scalpel?
By Tip Johnson · Sat Nov 3, 2012
An letter to the County Council on opening the county to the slaughter industry
8 comments
Xwe’chi’eXen: Where the Big Picture is a Very Small Fish
By Tip Johnson · Mon Oct 8, 2012
The Lummi Nation Declares Their Sovereign Objectives at Cherry Point
2 comments
BNSF Shoreline Improvements for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Coal Port
By Tip Johnson · Sun Jul 15, 2012
Wherein we see the Railroad walking it’s walk while we get ready to talk our talk.
1 comment
Game on!
By Tip Johnson · Thu Jun 7, 2012
Hereby hoping to stimulate discussion of what expanding the Port Commission is meant to achieve, what constitutes good government and how we might best achieve it.
18 comments
Time for a Change
By Tip Johnson · Wed Jun 6, 2012
Wherein the port proves they are incompetent to do the public’s business
DRONES!
By Tip Johnson · Thu May 17, 2012
Footage overlooking the Fairhaven area
5 comments
Tip Johnson

Tip Johnson

Citizen Journalist and Editor · Writing Since Jan 16, 2008
Tip Johnson is a longtime citizen interest advocate with a record of public achievement projects for good government and the environment. A lifelong student of government, Tip served two terms on the Bellingham City Council and has worked on many community boards and committees. He travelled with the Federal Transit Administration and Department of Commerce on mass transit trade missions in SE Asia and Africa before settling down to focus on keeping public interests at the fore of local government and the course of growth and development.

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