Posted Thu, Jul 14, 11:34 a.m.

Jill McIntyre Witt, who along with Brooks Anderson and City Councilmember Seth Fleetwood crafted the Bellingham ordinance and guided it through the community vetting process, says they did not "copy" the Oregon legislation, as I phrased it. "This was very much our own effort," she says in an email, "cobbled ...

Posted Fri, Apr 15, 8:35 a.m.

One of the many nice things about writing for Crosscut is the near certainty of stirring a well written comment from someone who believes seriously that his comments are deleted by Crosscut ideologues.

Posted Tue, Mar 15, 7:03 p.m.

Hate to horn in here between bluelight and denverite, but nothing on the Bellingham side offers a reasonable solution. The county made an experimental run or two to Fairhaven last year when this same rental question seemed to be nearing a standoff. It's a long, long run and can't be ...

Posted Wed, Nov 10, 10:45 p.m.

As the story makes clear (see paragraph five) Whatcom County continues to require professional inspections in the Lake Whatcom watershed.

Posted Tue, Nov 9, 10:14 p.m.

Public radio is splendid.

Posted Tue, Oct 12, 4:07 p.m.

woofer's question: "Does Simmons seriously think Wyoming is the 'best-run' state? Answer: No. The authors of the study do. Please read the third paragraph from the end of the piece. It refers to Wyoming as in first place, not as the best-run. You'll also find a suggestion there to the ...

Posted Sat, Oct 9, 1:45 p.m.

The MSNBC video reveals a lot about both sides of this argument, and the link we provided in the first edition of the story seems no longer to connect to the video. Here’s a better one: http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/07/5254853-lou-dobbs-i-have-done-nothing-illegal For commenters Kieth and Cameron: I think that on reading either the Crosscut ...

Posted Mon, May 10, 8:36 a.m.

There's a marvelous book on this subject by the late Greg Palmer, essayist, playwright and television commentator (at KING-TV in a different world). “Death, the Trip of a Lifetime," published by Harper-Collins, examines how cultures all around the planet deal with death and why. It's the companion book for Greg's ...

Posted Mon, Dec 21, 7:36 p.m.

With regard to jaker's assertion that "there is no information saying Bellingham is not in a flood plain." Read again, please, NOAA's Environmental Assessment, the same document you've been citing. Page 5-95, describing the Bellingham site: "With respect to the likelihood of the proposed action being affected by flooding, the ...

Posted Fri, Dec 11, 4:05 p.m.

In response to Bob Dick’s comments on my Lake Whatcom park piece: I respect Mr. Dick’s experience as a professional forester. It’s pretty hard to quarrel with his observation that Lake Whatcom has been experiencing landslides since the last glaciation, long before any human effect and that “debris fans bear ...

Posted Tue, Dec 8, 5:28 p.m.

DocMaynard, As I understand it, the lands being transferred didn't produce any funds for the higher education trust, nor for other statewide trusts. These were formerly county lands, transferred to the DNR in the 1930's. The revenue gained from timber sales went to small trusts inside the county, for fire ...

Posted Mon, Nov 23, 9:20 a.m.

Among the poetic tributes worth recalling from those awful days was one from essayist and storyteller E.B. White, in the New Yorker of Nov. 30, 1963: "When we think of him, he is without a hat, standing in the wind and the weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, ...

Posted Thu, May 21, 8:05 a.m.

Tim Eyman? Overeach? Surely he won't. He took a mere 1004 words to comment on Floyd's 436-word story.

Posted Tue, Mar 3, 9:07 a.m.

D.H. Lawrence had a poem about the niceness phenomenon, but he was writing about the English, and their niceness toward Americans, French and Germans. It starts "The English are so nice/ so awfully nice/ they're the nicest people in the world" ...and ends "..just be nice, you know!/Oh, fairly nice/not ...

Posted Mon, Feb 23, 10:34 p.m.

We'll get over it? No we won't.

Posted Thu, Jan 22, 10:36 a.m.

E.B. White wrote in 1956, after Pres. Eisenhower declared a National Day of Prayer: "Democracy, if I understand it at all, is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only half a dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of ...

Posted Thu, Nov 29, 5:34 p.m.

Dang it: Oh hell, I misspelled the guy's name. We're talking, of course, about Peter Callaghan. Not Callahan.

Posted Thu, Nov 29, 5:32 p.m.

Pete's outstanding: I admire Danny, and Rick Anderson and Skip Berger. But I'm amazed at the courage and bite of Peter Callahan. Example: a lot of us know at one level or another that gambling interests have chewed up the legislature and put themselves in position to dominate local governments, ...

Posted Tue, Jul 24, 9:43 a.m.

The Governor's wornout speech writers: I suppose it's inconceivable that a governor write some of her own speeches?

Posted Wed, Jul 18, 9:54 a.m.

Pricing the congestion: See, there's the reason we need Crosscut. They've got Knute Berger reading the journal Transportation Policy. Then the rest of us don't have to.

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 7:08 p.m.

Before there was live, there was reporter involvement.: Greg, that was a fine, revealing piece on the folly of live shots that obfuscate the story. But some of us (you included) were doing television news back when there were no live shots (guys were writing with charcoal on the walls ...