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Previous Issues
Watching Government
December 2018
Port of Bellingham Commission
Compiled by Bill McCallum Action Taken at September 18, 2018 Meeting Shall the commission: 133. Small Works Roster. Contracts under $300,000 fall within the executive director’s spending authority; they only require commission notification. Re-stripe Bellingham Cruise Terminal lots, $149,424. (7851/Consent … Continue reading
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December 2018
Whatcom County Council
Compiled by Barry MacHale Action Taken at September 25, 2018 Meeting Shall the council: 141. Authorize the executive to accept $13,223 in federal grant funds from the city of Bellingham? (Public hearing held.) The city of Bellingham will administer the … Continue reading
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December 2018
Bellingham City Council
Roxanne Murphy resigned at the September 10 meeting. The at-large position will be vacant until the October 8 meeting. Action Taken at September 24, 2018 Meeting Shall the council: 143. Spend $990,000 to purchase 160 acres of open space from … Continue reading
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December 2018
Tribes Reclaim Stolen Lands
by Greg Hanscom Since January 2014, Whatcom Watch has been rerunning articles from issues printed 20 years ago. The below article appeared in the December 1998 issue of Whatcom Watch. Editor’s Note: This story of the transformation of Indian country was … Continue reading
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December 2018
poetrywatch
Boris Schleinkofer, poetrywatch editor “When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” — … Continue reading
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December 2018
Feeding One-Fifth of Ferndale
by Nichole Schmitt “Just inches away from homelessness and hunger.” Anyone in our community could end up here according to Sandy (not her actual name). I met Sandy in the line outside the Ferndale Food Bank. A dozen of us … Continue reading
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December 2018
Ancient Violence Is Still With Us
by Lyle Harris Sr. “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Those words, attributed to Abraham Lincoln, are as pertinent today as they were 160 … Continue reading
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December 2018
Shopping for Anesthesia? I Did
by Robert A. Duke Author’s Note: We are grateful to the physicians who contributed to this article under the condition of anonymity and the understanding that they “… obviously do not speak for PeaceHealth or their profession, but have the … Continue reading
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December 2018
Winter Waterfowl
by Joe Meche For most of my life I’ve had a strong affinity for one of the most visible groups of birds — the ducks, geese, and related species that comprise the greater family of waterfowl. Some of my earliest … Continue reading
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December 2018
Need Two or More Candidates
Dear Watchers, Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), the method described in the October/November 2018 Whatcom Watch article, would not have been useful for all races in the recent midterm elections because RCV is only appropriate when more than two candidates are on … Continue reading
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