October and November of 2015
To celebrate over 23 years of publishing Whatcom Watch, we will be publishing excerpts from 20 years ago. David M. Laws has been generous enough to volunteer to review the Whatcom Watch for 20 years ago to find suitable material to reprint. The below excerpts are from the November 1995 [Read More...]
Action Taken at August 4, 2015 Meeting Compiled by Barry MacHale Shall the council: 146. Appoint ten individuals to the Incarceration Prevention and Reduction Task Force? Four year terms: Stephen Gockley, Chris Phillips, Heidi Robbins, Jill Bernstein, Dave Finet and Jack Hovenier. Two year terms: Byron Manering, Moonwater, Susan Gribbon [Read More...]
The Port Commission meeting scheduled for August 4, 2015 was cancelled. Action Taken at August 18, 2015 Meeting Compiled by Andrew S. McBride Shall the commission: 101. Transfer ownership of surplus computer equipment to electronic recycling services? This resolution provides an alternate to Resolution 1060, which established a policy of [Read More...]
Compiled by Boris Schleinkofer Action Taken at August 10, 2015 Meeting Shall the council: 151. Authorize the mayor to sign a settlement agreement in the amount of $25,659? Claim payments in excess of $15,000 requires City Council approval. A drainage pipe was damaged when a water meter was installed at [Read More...]
Primary Election Results–2015 in PDF format
Northwest Communities Have Won Key Battles Can They Win the War? by Eric de Place and Deric Gruen “Everybody outside the Northwest thinks that’s where energy projects go to die.” 1 That’s the reputation our region has earned as an increasing number of proposed coal and oil export projects have encountered [Read More...]
Part 16 by Stoney Bird This is the sixteenth in a continuing series of articles that began with the January, 2014 issue of Whatcom Watch. The series addresses the impediments to democracy and well-being in American society – as well as ways like the one presented here to improve the [Read More...]
Charter Review Commission votes are in PDF format: October-November Page11 Charter Review Votes
Fig. 1. Hypothetical distribution of water use for a particular crop. Interviews with those famers on the right would show what factors account for their higher than average water use and suggest ways to reduce that water use. Interviews with those on the left would show what factors account [Read More...]
Proposition No. 1 Method of Electing Council Members Proposed by the Charter Review Commission Official Ballot Title The Whatcom County Charter Review Commission has proposed an amendment to the Whatcom County Charter concerning the method of electing County Council members. This measure would amend Charter Section 2.13 to provide for [Read More...]