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About Charlie Crabtree

Long time observer of State and Local Politics. Charlie was born and raised in Whatcom County Washington. Served in the US Air Force in the 70's and served for 12 years on the Meridian School Board (north of Bellingham Washington) and a stint on the County Charter Review Commission. Retired except for Blogging and enjoying life.

State Senate Honors Ukrainian immigrants and Tax “ain’t” it Forum

    Like us on Facebook Here Subscribe FREE to the Fourth Corner Here Please help support The Fourth Corner Here Ukrainian Community members attend State Senate Ceremony honoring Ukrainian Immigrants in Washington State On  Friday April 19th State Senators Fortunato, Padden, Ericksen, Braun, Schoesler, Honeyford, Warnick, Zeiger, Sheldon, Rivers, Short, O'Ban, Brown, Wilson, L., Walsh, Wagoner, King, Hawkins, and Hasegawa sponsored the following resolution. Nineteen State Senators Sponsored a Resolution honoring Ukrainian Immigrants to the ...

By |2019-04-25T11:18:18-07:00April 25, 2019|Fourth Corner News|0 Comments

A Decade of The Fourth Corner; Legislature: Special Session? Taxes.

                      Like us on Facebook Here Subscribe FREE to the Fourth Corner Here Please help support The Fourth Corner Here In this issue: 10th Anniversary of the Fourth Corner. Representative Shewmake excuses herself from voting on a major bill for Northern County residents and jobs. The Corner's Point of View. Will the Legislative Session end on time. (Taxes: galore.) Coming to Meridian High School in the Common Threads ongoing series; this one is called: ...

Jobs and Agriculture in Whatcom and Skagit are targets of legislative action.

                      Like us on Facebook Here Subscribe FREE to the Fourth Corner Here Please help support The Fourth Corner Here Cherry Point in North Whatcom County and the refineries in Skagit County are under attack by the State Legislature. Protesting Refinery Workers at Rep. Sharon Shewmake (D) Town Hall At Whatcom Community College March 23rd 2019 S5579-S.E AMH ENVI H2618.3  is a bill that would make it impossible for Bakken Crude to ...

By |2019-04-06T08:19:41-07:00April 6, 2019|Fourth Corner News|2 Comments

Sad day for law enforcement and all of us… Legislature continues with Sanctuary State Legislation

Deputy's killer in the country illegally. It was reported this afternoon that the Deputy shot to death in an incident outside Ellensburg Washington was shot by a 29 year old in the United States illegally. Meanwhile the State Legislature is passing legislation making it easier for these non vetted individuals to stay here in Washington State. From Kiro 7 in Seattle: "Police identified Deputy Thompson's killer as 29-year-old Juan Manuel Flores Del Toro, who ...

CBS reports Seattle Senator’s Leg. District has slavery; Do Large pay raises create District deficits on purpose?; Farmers get the word out at Forum.

Senator Saldana is prime sponsor of a bill that would have retailers report any slavery on our farms in Washington State. The Washington State Farm Bureau article here states that "Alarmed Washington fruit growers have been sounding off to their representatives at the state capital in Olympia Senator Saldana 37th District Democrat Seattle; Prime Sponsor of "Farmers Reporting Slavery Bill" about a bill proposed by Seattle Senator Rebecca Saldaña"  (Democrat 37th District ...

Ben Elenbaas running for County Council! Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell Illegal Migrants ; Farmer’s to report slaves??

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Breaking: Who Might replace Gov Inslee A local connection…

NOTE: WE WANT TO KEEP YOU UP TO DATE and getting our newsletter...  To Check If you are getting our newsletter please go to thefourthcorner.com(click here) there are pictures of previous issues along the right side and bottom on a Desktop... and scrolling to the bottom on a cell phone..... See if you have missed more than one of these articles and emails; if you have: PLEASE let us know by replying to the ...

By |2019-03-01T20:42:18-08:00March 1, 2019|Fourth Corner News|0 Comments

Carbon Tax coming?; Voter Disconnect; Hirst a failure? Bellingham Mayor Candidates

Carbon Tax Anyway? Carbon Tax Initiative 1631 turned down in 36 of 39 Washington Counties; and garnering only 44% of the vote is back in the spotlight and a version may be passed by the State Legislature... over the people's obvious objections to a carbon tax... after the Democrats took over the State Legislature last November. Sen Steven Hobbs Democrat 44th District Sen Hobbs (Democrat) Lk Stevens has proposed a .15 cent ...

Green Manifesto in WA.; Congrats to Schools; Local Farmers to Gather; Higher Prop Taxes

Remember to Vote in Conservation election March 26th Washington State Legislature moving legislation that implements many of the National "Green Manifesto" goals. Here are the top 5 Goals of the National Green Manifesto Resolution Even The Washington Post opinion page says the Green Manifesto is "make believe" The following are just three reasons why..  Here is the full Washington Post Commentary article. No current Technology. The trouble is that the technology doesn’t seem to ...

Save the Whales; Mumps at ICE Center In Houston; France explodes again; Trump at 52%

Save the Whales; Save the Salmon... Following the call to tear down dams and other drastic new tax policies to save the Orca (just under a billion dollars in the Governor's Budget) comes a new piece of legislation by Senator Doug Ericksen... Doug Karlberg For backgound: Here is the podcasts of the January 19th 2019 Saturday Morning Live Show as Kris Halterman interviewed local Fisherman Doug Karlberg. On the program Mr. Karlberg ...

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