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April 2024 No Foolin’ Edition
April 12, 2024 Intercom Announcement: We’re calling it. Time of Death: Early May, 2024. Cause: Bipedal progress. What else? Obituary Lead Graf: Holly Street, the one way, three-lane promenade noted...
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Week of April 3, 2024: Ongoing port follies, humor and a long view on the...
Editor, Plaudits to Cascadia Daily for its coverage of the city’s waterfront redevelopment. I was born and raised in Bellingham and retired here nearly nine years ago after a long career dealing...
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Another NW port city wonders: How do we keep local news alive?
An issue of Cascadia Daily News rolls off the press in Mount Vernon. A national crisis in local news extends throughout the Northwest, prompting multiple new efforts to turn the tide, notes Kari...
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With democracy on ballot, voters will lead the way in CDN’s Citizens Agenda 2024
This election reporting is provided free to all readers as a public service by the local ownership of Cascadia Daily News. Thanks for supporting truly local news by donating to CDN or subscribing...
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Don’t fall for it: Proposed staffing mandate restricts access to care for...
The Mt. Baker Care Center on Wednesday, April 3. A proposed requirement for skilled nursing facilities (nursing homes) to raise the minimum staff-to-resident ratio is unlikely to improve quality of...
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Week of April 10, 2024: The economy, child abuse prevention, nukes and...
Editor, In Friday’s print edition (CDN, April 4, 2024), Ron Judd points out clearly the importance of this year’s elections, and national columnist Megan McCardle reports on the economy as one of the...
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Rape allegations send Meridian Schools scurrying for cover — behind privacy laws
The Meridian School District Office located at 214 W. Laurel Road on Thursday, April 11. (Eli Voorhies/Cascadia Daily News) Editor’s note: The eligibility status of Meridian High School athlete Jase...
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Week of April 17, 2024: Scrap loads, McMansions, Mayor Kim and tiny homes
Editor, Much praise to you and the paper for your in-depth and quality reporting of local Whatcom County issues! It is very disappointing recently to hear of the complaints about the sounds of ships...
View ArticleCommentary response: Nursing-home staffing mandates critical to dignified care
As a former Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) manager with responsibilities for ensuring the quality of care in our nation’s nursing homes, I take exception with your recent commentator...
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Readers are asking: WWU’s gaping security hole, arboretum parking and...
The currently sketchy parking area for the Sehome Arboretum is about to get an upgrade with the new House of Healing longhouse project managed by the city and WWU. Will it set a paid-parking precedent?...
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Week of April 24, 2024: Samish Crest, the jail project, bike lanes, cougars...
Editor, We can only hope that letting out the secret about the last sizeable undeveloped place in Bellingham, along its eastern city limits (CDN, April 13, 2024), may help promote a good outcome. As...
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County executive’s fawning ‘introduction’ letter literally defies explanation
County Executive Satpal Sidhu failed miserably in attempting to explain a recommendation that helped departing Public Works Director Jon Hutchings get a new job in Lynden, CDN's Ron Judd argues....
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Week of May 1, 2024: Angry Dems, Satpal Sidhu, charter review and … bike lanes
Editor, I have in the past been a member of the Whatcom County Democrats executive board, including two years as first vice chair. At present I am only a precinct committee officer (PCO). I am...
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Party chair: We must hold all leaders — including Democrats — accountable
An electric bus is parked next to a charging station at Whatcom Transportation Authority headquarters in January 2022 on Bakerview Spur in Bellingham. Democrat Chair Andrew Reding said, through the...
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Week of May 8, 2024: Sidhu’s memory, ballot ‘curing,’ power lines and Trump
Editor, [County Executive] Satpal Sidhu clearly demonstrated a loss of memory in supporting Jon Hutchings — former [Whatcom County] public works director who allegedly sexually harassed women. Gentle...
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Planners on both sides of border are on the same (density) page — the wrong one
Density in neighborhoods such as Bellingham's Happy Valley, pictured in 2023, mirror those in some neighborhoods in British Columbia, which is stumbling along with the same proposed "solutions" as...
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CDN’s FAQ for the POB: A guide to truly historic waterfront boondoggling
Layered boondoggles show themselves on Tuesday, May 7 near the Port of Bellingham's Trackside beer garden, where excavators ripped up tainted sod from a recent paint-stripping boondoggle as condos...
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The Hammer: May 2024 (local government) Mayhem Edition
It’s Getting Pretty Hot: Not only outside, but down at Whatcom County HQ, where some singe marks are still visible on the front yard totem pole from the political firestorm after the recent sexual...
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Week of May 17, 2024: Port history, harassment, white-coat labor,...
Editor, For those of us who have been around this city long enough to remember trains on Railroad Avenue and when Teddy Bear Cove was a peaceful hippie nude beach, there was a time to recall when the...
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Why supporters of Washington’s long-term care program worry about Initiative...
A screenshot of the WA Cares website. Editor’s Note: This election reporting by the Washington State Standard is the first of a planned series of analysis pieces previewing the 2024 election, provided...
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