An Initiative submitted by a group of citizens in Whatcom County was held up by 4 of 7 Council members from being put on the ballot; which is the standard practice. Background: In the November 2022 Proposition 5 was placed on the ballot by super majority vote of the Council. The Proposition passed by 20 votes. It added a tax of about 19 cents per thousand to all property tax payers and will collect ...
Dr Raul Garcia U.S. Senate Candidate running against Maria Cantwell in the Primary on August 6th. Dr Raul Garcia In an event no one in politics can remember being done in Washington State Dr. Raul Garcia is taking 6 campaigning day to Walk from the Yakima area to Seattle. His 20 + miles a day walk is to highlight the plight of those who have died from overdoses of Fentanyl and those ...
Councilman Mark Stremler Stremler proposes energy choice to Whatcom County Council In an effort to have the Whatcom County Council get behind the effort to have "energy choice" Councilman Mark Stremler introduced a resolution which supports energy choices for residents and business owners in Whatcom County. The County Council had a hearing on June 18th to consider the proposal. Presented near the end of the June 18th meeting (page 6 of 7 ...
City Council approves emergency landmark tree protections The ordinance takes effect immediately and protects the largest, most significant trees in Bellingham May 21, 2024 - by Ryan Key-Wynne, Planning and Community Development Under the City’s emergency landmark tree ordinance, any healthy tree with a trunk diameter of 36 inches or greater will be automatically considered a “landmark tree” and receive special protections. To prevent the removal of exceptional trees in anticipation of new regulations, the ...
Archive Fourth Corner Issues Here June 29th 2024 at 8:44 am PDT Resolution at Whatcom County Council Considers energy choices for citizens. Last week for Signing Petition See Locations June 12th 2024 at 5:40 am PDT Emergency Ordinance on trees in Bellingham... Supreme Court Candidate Dave Larson... LOCATIONS May 30th 2024 at 3:25 pm PDT TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS... LOCATIONS to sign Natural Gas Initiative Included... Superior Court Judge Lowers ...
Do you know your Superior Court Judges... many never appear on the ballot. Trooper Gadd THE way Superior Court Judges are elected came to light recently, to this reporter, in the case of a state trooper that was killed on the Freeway in Marysville. A suspect in the case just had his bail reduced from $1,000,000 to $100,000 by Judge Richard Okrent in Snohomish County. This suspect was in Snohomish County jail ...
John Lesow Guest Writer “Planners on Both Sides of the Border are on the Same Page…And it’s the Wrong Page.” At their April 24 meeting at the Bellingham Yacht Club, the Bellingham City Club hosted a pro-development panel discussing the pressing issue of “Balancing Policy, Population and Preservation”. At issue were the recent legislative edicts from Olympia, demanding more housing density in Bellingham and prohibiting Single Family Zoning. The Washington State legislation, ...
New downtown offices for Public Safety to be manned to help with down town homeless problems.
Challenger Raul Garcia of Yakima. Received 36% of the Respondents to the poll. WEB SITE Challenger Raul Garcia of Yakima. Received 36% of the Respondents to the poll. WEB SITE Incumbent Maria Cantwell of Seattle. Received 44% of the Respondents to the Poll WEB SITE New State Poll Shows Surprising Results for Challengers this Fall A new poll released this week by Echelon Insights and sponsored by Concerned Taxpayers of ...
In the News In The News As expected, the South Whidbey Fire/EMS District is putting a levy lid lift measure on the ballot in August. Look for a flood of information about why you should give them more money… and very little information on why you should not. (At the Project, we have no opinion on the matter — we generally like fire fighters and medics — but we would like to occasionally ...
