Hip Hip Hooray for the Herons!
Editor’s Note: Jamie K Donaldson graciously acknowledges community efforts in this article. What she doesn’t mention is her own unflagging commitment to keeping this issue alive over 22 years, [...]
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Jamie K. Donaldson is a long-time activist for peace, social justice, and the environment. She was the founder of the Whatcom Peace & Justice Center in downtown Bellingham, and is retired from the University of British Columbia. She is the former president of the Board of Directors of the Bellingham Food Bank, and is a volunteer park steward. Jamie is a member of the North Cascades Audubon Society and local Sierra Club.
Editor’s Note: Jamie K Donaldson graciously acknowledges community efforts in this article. What she doesn’t mention is her own unflagging commitment to keeping this issue alive over 22 years, [...]
After twenty years of fits and starts, there is a time-sensitive opportunity for the city of Bellingham to finally create the Post Point Great Blue Heron Reserve. City Council [...]
Hurry down to the Post Point Great Blue Heron colony in the next few days to catch sight of a wondrous event: the giant baby herons are preparing to leave [...]
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"Yes, thank you, Dick, for bringing humanity and dignity back to a “holiday” whose origin we too-often forget. May I say that we’re lucky you are [...]
"OK, Ralph and Karen, I’ll take the bait.Ralph, do I conclude from your comment that you believe the Great Blue Heron nesting site at Post Point doesn&[...]
"I found this article in Counterpunch to be spot on. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/18/in-praise-of-joe-biden/
"Gosh, do I ever feel like a chump (NOT a chum). For years I’ve been volunteering with the COB Parks Department to help restore riparian and salmon [...]
"Thanks, Nicholas, for a reminder to go by the heron colony to experience the beauty and wonder of wildlife right in our midst. It truly is a special place [...]
A perspective from a very old liberal political junkie.
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Medicare Advantage is NOT Medicare. Medicare is there to provide health care. Medicare Advantage is a business, there to make money.
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3 comments, most recent 1 month agoThe City has created another useless document ensuring nothing changes and mediocre communication services are protected.
13 comments, most recent 1 month agoWhy a vote for Jason Call for Congress is a good vote for conservatives, liberals, Democrats and Republicans. Yes, an unusual idea.
Heaven forbid our reps should attack the main problem, Medicare Advantage, head on. But no. They must nibble around the edges to give the appearance of doing something.
1 comment, most recent 3 months agoMorally significant double binds force doctors and combat soldiers into identical life and death quandaries, damaging their moral centers. To these two groups we can also add law enforcement officers.
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3 comments, most recent 4 months agoEric Hirst gives us a brief and clear explanation of the water adjudication process that is beginning now in Whatcom County
3 comments, most recent 3 months agoAggressive citizen involvement carried the day.
5 comments, most recent 4 months agoBuild-for-profit, incarceration-inspired housing is destroying our souls.
11 comments, most recent 1 month agoThe last of the scrap metal is loaded on the ship and it will be gone from our town.
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1 comment, most recent 4 months agoIf not killed-in-action, they are still dying from the effects of their service in Vietnam.
7 comments, most recent 5 months agoThe foam of secrecy hides all.
Local presentations scheduled on a reasonable use framework for water resource management
Broadband-Washing: Greenwashing the Internet
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4 comments, most recent 6 months agoIf the hospitals are smelling a rat, so should Medicare (Dis)Advantage victims (AKA enrollees).
2 comments, most recent 4 months agoWith such a bank in place, we would likely not be scrambling around and asking Congress for rebuild monies, as we are now with the catastrophic event involving the Francis Scott Key bridge on March 26, 2024.
Port of Bellingham commissioners terminate last 13 years of ABC Recycling lease
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6 comments, most recent 9 months agoWe needed a hook, and we think we found it.
13 comments, most recent 9 months ago"Sweet Jesus,” shrieked the thralls of the Sehomus Republic,as ABC the Yochlowitz,successor to GorgoPacificus the Destroyer,...
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Merely musing about soldiers.
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Why a Liberal is voting for a Conservative for the Whatcom County Council
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