- This Business Supports
Whatcom Watch
Article Categories
- Cover Story
- Beaks and Bills
- Dear Watchers
- Being Frank
- Watching Government
- Agriculture
- Ballot Measure
- Bay Cleanup
- Bellingham City Council
- Bellingham Parks
- Beyond Fossil Fuels
- Bird Watching
- Book Review
- Campaign 2016
- Candidates
- Climate
- Commentary
- Community Service Providers
- Community Service Spotlight
- Conservation
- Conservation District Election
- County Charter Review
- County Elections
- Dear Sasquatch
- Development
- Earth
- Editorial
- Education
- Election 2017
- Election 2024
- Election Results
- Electoral Reform
- Energy
- Fossil Fuels
- Full Bloom Farm
- Gardening
- Global Warming
- Guest Author
- Health/Digital
- Healthcare
- Housing
- Human Rights Film Festival
- I-1631
- Incarceration
- Internet
- Journalism
- Kushan Carbon Trust
- Lake Whatcom
- Lands preservation
- Letter to the Editor
- Life Before Flowers
- Looking Back
- Lummi
- March Election
- Marine Life
- media and publications
- Native Plant Neighbors
- Natural Biology
- Natural History
- Northwest Gardening
- Obituary
- Opinion
- pipelines
- poetrywatch
- Pollution
- Port of Bellingham
- Puget Sound
- Recreation
- Recycling
- Red Wheelbarrow Writers
- Salish Sea
- Salmon
- Salmon Streams and Tributaries
- Solar Power
- Stormwater
- Talk to Us
- Transportation
- Trees and Forestry
- Twenty Years Ago
- Unsung Heroes
- Watch Out!!
- Water
- Whatcom: Chronic & Acute
- Whatcom County Council
- Wildfire
- Wildlife
Previous Issues
Talk to Us
August 2026
Talk to Us
Golf Balls Deteriorating, Polluting Lake Whatcom Recent news about the continuing decline of water quality in Lake Whatcom stirred up a question I have about a recreational practice I have noticed neighbors engaging in. It is not a huge issue, … Continue reading
Comments Off on Talk to Us
July 2026
Talk to Us
Reader Comments on Sidewalk Inventory Request Dear Editor: An article in Whatcom Watch’s “Talk to Us” (April/May 2026) concerning neighborhood sidewalk inventories caught my interest. I was impressed with the substantial effort those involved had made. However, I’d like to … Continue reading
Comments Off on Talk to Us
March 2026
Nuclear Power Warning
Talk to Us [In my February letter to Whatcom Watch, “Cautionary Tale for Nuclear Power” (https://whatcomwatch.org/index.php/article/cautionary-tale-for-nuclearpower/), I note that Microsoft is promoting nuclear power for its data centers. This article dives deeper into the public health threat posed by Bill … Continue reading
Comments Off on Nuclear Power Warning
February 2026
Cautionary Tale for Nuclear Power
Talk to Us Radioactive waste gets buried in one sentence near the end of a Washington State Standard article (https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/02/nuclear-powerventures-heat-up-around-washingtonstate/) that reads like a promotional ad for Amazon and Microsoft building nuclearpowered data centers in Washington state. This is the … Continue reading
Comments Off on Cautionary Tale for Nuclear Power
January 2026
Citizens Up Against Insurmountable Odds
Talk to Us Growth Management is a farce. This system that excludes the public must be changed. While cities have taxpayer-funded attorneys to fight against them, citizens protecting their communities from harm do not. The Protect Mud Bay Cliffs SEPA … Continue reading
Comments Off on Citizens Up Against Insurmountable Odds
