Recent NWCitizen Articles

The Scrap Heap - The Real Message
By David Netboy · Wed Jun 12, 2024
Aggressive citizen involvement carried the day.
3 min read · 5 comments
The Wealth Of Real Estate Corporations Is Not Our Purpose For Being
By Carol Follett · Tue Jun 11, 2024
Build-for-profit, incarceration-inspired housing is destroying our souls.
4 min read · 11 comments
A Walking Tour at the Core of the Explosion
By John Servais · Mon Jun 10, 2024
A 54-photo tour of the ruptured pipe area of the Whatcom Creek explosion taken in July 1999.
2 min read · 1 comment
All Remaining ABC Scrap Metal Is On Ship
By John Servais · Mon Jun 10, 2024
The last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone from our town.
1 min read · 1 comment
The Audio of the Pipeline Explosion
By John Servais · Sat Jun 8, 2024
Below is an audio tape of 911 calls, emergency responders’ radio communications, and local radio coverage from June 10, 1999 when Whatcom Creek exploded in Bellingham
1 min read · 2 comments
Court Process for Defining Whatcom Water Rights Begins
By James Davenport · Mon Jun 3, 2024
Whatcom County's confusing water rights will be defined by court proceedings beginning now
3 min read · 1 comment
Memorial Day 2024 - Remembering My Friends
By Dick Conoboy · Sat May 25, 2024
If not killed-in-action, they are still dying from the effects of their service in Vietnam.
5 min read · 7 comments
More Broadbandwashing and Anti-Voter Secrecy
By Jon Humphrey · Sat May 25, 2024
The foam of secrecy hides all.
6 min read
Water Rights
By Tip Johnson · Thu May 2, 2024
Local presentations scheduled on a reasonable use framework for water resource management
1 min read
A Resolution to Make Sure Nothing Gets Done
By Jon Humphrey · Tue Apr 9, 2024
Broadband-Washing: Greenwashing the Internet
5 min read · 6 comments
Moving Back from the Brink
By Gene Marx · Fri Apr 5, 2024
Pacific Northwest organizers join a global campaign to abolish all nukes and push for a city council resolution to start
5 min read · 4 comments
Medicare (Dis)Advantage - Even Hospitals Don’t Like It.
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Mar 31, 2024
If the hospitals are smelling a rat, so should Medicare (Dis)Advantage victims (AKA enrollees).
4 min read · 2 comments
The $5 Trillion National Infrastructure Bank Is Looking Better Every Day
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Mar 27, 2024
With such a bank in place, we would likely not be scrambling around and asking Congress for rebuild monies, as we are now with the catastrophic event involving the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024.
2 min read
Scrap metal shipping from Port dock ends this summer
By John Servais · Mon Mar 25, 2024
Port of Bellingham commissioners terminate last 13 years of ABC Recycling lease
3 min read · 5 comments
COB - Your Interests vs. Corporate Interests
By Jon Humphrey · Mon Mar 18, 2024
No public fiber means we can’t compete with big telecom. EVER.
7 min read · 4 comments
The Insidious Creep of Medicare (Dis)Advantage
By Carol Kemp · Sun Feb 25, 2024
Crappier coverage for us, even more money for insurance companies.
2 min read · 3 comments
Firing Up the War Machine
By Dianne Foster · Fri Feb 9, 2024
Who benefits? Palestinians are being slaughtered. Genocide. Gaza is being leveled.
3 min read · 6 comments
Three Wise Men?
By Tip Johnson · Tue Jan 9, 2024
The Port Commission has decreed that Bellingham’s waterfront will remain a toxic, festering sore
4 min read · 6 comments
The ABC Recycling Hook
By David Netboy · Tue Dec 26, 2023
We needed a hook, and we think we found it.
2 min read · 13 comments
1 min read · 3 comments

Todd Lagestee

Commenting Since Oct 23, 2019
Eagle Scout, Navy Nuclear Mechanic (submarines), Fire Fighter, WWU Bio-Cultural Anthropology grad (with honors).

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