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Single Family Homes and the American Dream Reduced by State Action by John Lesow

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, ...

By |2024-05-16T15:30:04-07:00May 16, 2024|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, Fourth Corner News, Government & Politics|2 Comments
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Echelon Insights Total Poll on behalf of Concerned Taxpayers of WA.

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 ...

By |2024-04-24T19:49:08-07:00April 5, 2024|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments
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In Skagit County: Jail Comes together in Four Years… Ron Wesen tells the story.

How did Skagit County Complete their Justice Center Project. The slides below highlight the process. Beginning with the passage of the proposition to build the Justice Center until Finishing around the ribbon cutting in July 2017 was just less than 4 years for the $62,602,000 Project.  This made Skagit County the First County in the Fourth Corner to build a modern jail in their community. The leaders in Skagit County got the job done. ...

By |2024-03-03T15:17:01-08:00March 3, 2024|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, Fourth Corner News, Government & Politics|0 Comments
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Candidate for OSPI to appear in Whatcom County.

CHAD MAGENDANZ IS RUNNING FOR OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION CHAD MAGENDANZ STATEMENT A recent The Seattle Times headline read, "Cheerleading mediocrity is not good enough for WA’s education department," but our current chief of schools is still "the guy who high-fives kids plodding along in the slow lane and assures everyone that all is well." (9/17/2023)  Today's hearing on Initiative 2081(Parent's Bill of Rights) showed that parents across the state are building momentum for ...

By |2024-03-02T12:24:02-08:00March 2, 2024|Education, Fourth Corner News, Fourth Corner News|0 Comments
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Where is the news on 6 historical initiatives:Senator Simon Sefzik A letter

By SIMON SEFZIK sefzik Simon Sefzik is a former Washington state senator for the 42nd Legislative District and now works as a director for Project 42, a nonprofit aiming to build a durable infrastructure to improve the course of Washington.  In 1912, Washington state pioneered “direct democracy” as one of the first to formalize an initiative and referendum process, allowing citizens to organize and directly create and reform laws. This gave a ...

By |2024-02-12T14:12:48-08:00February 12, 2024|Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News|3 Comments
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Dangerous Rhetoric’s Nancy Churchill and Initiative 2117

Why the Carbon Tax Doesn’t Work I-2117 We’re going to start with the premise that we can’t trust everything we hear or read. It’s incumbent on us to make the effort to dig deeper to understand the issues. Is there really a climate crisis?  We’re going to set that question aside for today, and start with two assumptions about the environment. Our first assumption is that we ALL want to live ...

By |2024-01-25T06:18:36-08:00January 24, 2024|Environment and Climate Change, Fourth Corner News, Fourth Corner News|1 Comment
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BEN ELENBAAS for Whatcom County Council District 5

BEN ELENBAAS for Whatcom County Council District 5 Ben Elenbaas It’s been an honor to represent you, but there is still more work to be done. Far too many people are being marginalized by a council majority that seems to only serve their own interests. The result is Bellingham-centric solutions that don’t serve you. Throwing more of your tax dollars at problems rarely results in better outcomes. Budgets continue to grow while ...

By |2023-10-20T07:23:13-07:00October 20, 2023|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Education, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments
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DEAN BERKELEY Blaine School Board Position 2

Dean Berkeley Blaine School Board Position 2 Dean Berkeley I am asking for your vote. We need to understand why Blaine SD has lost many good teachers over last few years. We need to ask why there is no major emphases on Trades and Arts.  Why parents are moving their children out of our school to home school or sent to another dist. Why teachers have been forced to close their tutoring ...

By |2023-10-16T14:23:45-07:00October 14, 2023|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Education, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments
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