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  March 2025

Has Value Village Fooled Us?

Community Donations Mean High Profit Margins for Thrift Giant by Ella Gage *Editor’s note: Savers Value Village did not respond to questions via a media inquiry email (they don’t have a corporate phone number, only for the individual stores). Bellingham’s … Continue reading

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  February 2025

Whatcom County’s Behind the Scenes Reform

Part 2 Electronic Home Monitoring for a New Lease on Life by Ella Gage There’s a fine line between locking up offenders who pose a critical threat to public safety and creating alternate pathways for those who commit low-level crimes … Continue reading

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  December 2024

Whatcom County’s Behind-the-Scenes Reform

A More Equitable Justice System Part 1 by Ella Gage The Task Force’s Mission At a federal level, Trump’s re-election threatens to advance brutal policing tactics and mass incarceration, pushing back nationwide movement toward justice reform. (1) However, state and … Continue reading

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  August 2024

Bird Populations Are in Decline — What Does This Mean for Whatcom County?

by Ella Gage Birds are an indicator species. Their population health is denotative of the health and trajectory of our ecosystem as a whole. The ground-breaking 2019 Science magazine report “Decline of the North American Avifauna” was derived from half … Continue reading

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