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Previous Issues
Cover Story
July 2019
This Year We Could Really Use Ranked Choice Voting
by Stoney Bird And here is a chance to try it out! This year Bellinghamsters and their neighbors have a huge array of contested elections and the candidates to go with them. Of nine elections total, we have eight — … Continue reading
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July 2019
How Ranked-Choice Votes Are Counted
by Stoney Bird For both single-winner elections (like mayor or county executive) and multi-winner elections (like the state legislature or the county council), the voters vote for as many candidates as they favor and rank their choices. If the election … Continue reading
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June 2019
Tribal Canoe Journey Ends at Lummi
by Betsy Pernotto Part 1 The annual Tribal Canoe Journey (Paddle to Lummi 2019) will be held on July 24-28, 2019, at the Lummi Reservation. Community Connections Committee member Betsy Pernotto interviewed Freddie Lane, the director of Paddle to Lummi … Continue reading
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June 2019
What Is 5G and Why Should You Care?
by Leslie Shankman Maybe you know, maybe you don’t. Somewhat quietly, the next generation of wireless technology called 5G, for 5th Generation, is sprouting up in cities around the globe. The lineage of technology generations started in the early 1980s … Continue reading
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May 2019
Glaciers of the North Cascades: A Dwindling Water Resource
by Erin McConnell It’s a sunny August day, and all four members of the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project (NCGCP) research team are pretty beat. Today marks one full week into the field season, and the day-long backpacking treks … Continue reading
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May 2019
Lake Whatcom Water Quality Continues to Decline
by April Markiewicz “Something is going on.” That is the phrase being used behind the scenes to describe some of the latest data in the Lake Whatcom Monitoring Project 2017/2018 Report by Matthews et al. (2019). Lake Whatcom (for … Continue reading
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April 2019
Orca Survival Status Quo No Longer an Option
by Eleanor Hines L-Pod orca blowing bubbles, as seen from San Juan Island’s Westside Preserve Land Bank … Continue reading
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April 2019
When the Spirit Rebels
by Rob Lewis It would have been a strange vision for any one of our great grandparents, if they had tried to imagine one day the emergence of something called Extinction Rebellion. “What? A rebellion against the end of life … Continue reading
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March 2019
Updated Nooksack Watershed Plan Failed
by Eric Hirst This article is different from the ones I usually write. I pride myself on an analytical approach that is data-driven. This article is about my thoughts and opinions on the recent process in response to legislation passed … Continue reading
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March 2019
The Nooksack River: A Treasure to Preserve
by Ron Kleinknecht Part 1 Lay of the River The Nooksack River is neither a large nor a long river by most standards as it runs only 75 miles from its origin in the glaciers of the North Cascade Mountains … Continue reading
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