Recent NWCitizen Articles

‘Public Banking Bill’ Voted Out Of Ways and Means Committee
By Dick Conoboy · Tue Mar 2, 2021
Part of a series of articles on the progress of a public banking cooperative in Washington.
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Emergency Management
By · Sat Feb 27, 2021
Garrett O’Brien guest writes about how Bellingham can learn from successful programs for the homeless elsewhere and would do well to abandon ineffectual approaches.
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The Reality Of Zoom And Citizen Participation
By Dick Conoboy · Sun Feb 21, 2021
City council and planning commission meetings were poor arrangements to begin with, and with Zoom it is very much worse.
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Letter: Secretary of Department of Corrections
By Letter Writer · Sat Feb 20, 2021
Irene Morgan writes a public letter to Governor Inslee about a new director of prisons
Public Banking For The State of Washington Inching Along
By Dick Conoboy · Sat Feb 13, 2021
A substitute bill for the original SB 5188 was accepted and moved to the Ways and Means Committee for further consideration.
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Ranked-Choice Voting – Let’s Keep It Moving
By Stoney Bird · Fri Feb 12, 2021
Current legislation, moving forward in Olympia, would permit localities to adopt ranked-choice voting as an upgrade to their currently mandated top-two system.
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Cruising And Tourism: Wretched Excess
By Dick Conoboy · Wed Feb 10, 2021
The monumental, pre-COVID levels of cruise ships and world tourism were not sustainable.
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Political Pretzel Logic without Cognitive Dissonance
By · Tue Feb 9, 2021
Ray Kamada guest writes on how to have your cake and eat it too.
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COB Puts The BAG In A Box
By Jon Humphrey · Sun Feb 7, 2021
The city has instituted unnecessary restrictions on the Broadband Advisory Group’s discussion and outside input.
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Letter: Internet home service and Olympia lawmakers
By Letter Writer · Mon Feb 1, 2021
Brian Martel on the issue of Internet broadband service to our homes and pending bills in Olympia.
Task Force Slams Bellingham City Hall
By John Servais · Sun Jan 31, 2021
The Whatcom Human Rights Task Force has sent an open letter to the Community regarding the sweep of Camp 210.
Public Banking Bill Gets A Warmer Reception In Olympia
By Dick Conoboy · Sat Jan 30, 2021
For the first time in a decade a hearing on a public banking bill found more supporters than detractors.
Letter: Bellingham Sweep of Homeless Camp
By Letter Writer · Sat Jan 30, 2021
Marii Herlinger writes on this past Thursday’s clearing of the homeless camp by city hall.
City Hall homeless camp cleared out a day early
By John Servais · Thu Jan 28, 2021
Bellingham started clearing 24 hours earlier than announced days ago. Antifa has showed up in numbers to provoke. Heavy police presence
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State’s Telecom Standards Full of Loopholes
By Jon Humphrey · Wed Jan 27, 2021
Regulatory standards in SB-5511 offer nothing but give the appearance of doing something.
City Hall Clutches its Pearls
By John Servais · Tue Jan 26, 2021
Mayor Fleetwood and outgoing council members could not handle the truth at last night’s Bellingham City Council meeting. Homeless people and their advocates spoke truth to power.
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Planned Roberts Bank Terminal Threatens Orcas
By Michael Riordan · Tue Jan 26, 2021
New Roberts Bank container-ship terminal proposed by the Port of Vancouver would generate additional vessel traffic that will impact endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales.
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Will City Double-Down to Kill Public Trail?
By Tip Johnson · Sun Jan 24, 2021
Tip Johnson makes the case that the City’s cozy relations with developers and its neighborhoods-be-damned attitude is costing us all.
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New Public Banking Bill Introduced in Olympia - Hearing On January 28th
By Dick Conoboy · Thu Jan 21, 2021
A public bank in Washington is sorely needed for infrastructure projects and more especially with COVID-19 and the resultant severe economic downturn.
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Satpal on Insurrection
By Satpal Sidhu · Thu Jan 14, 2021
Satpal Sidhu, our Whatcom County Executive, writes us a statement in response to attack on Capitol
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