Normal Filing for the 2021 Election ended on Friday May 21st and the field of candidates is set for the Primary August 3rd (with ballots going out on July 14th.) There will be one Countywide race in the Primary: County Council At-Large. There will be a total of 9 Primaries in Whatcom County this year. We have included School Districts in our list below as they seem to have drawn more interest than ...
The official 2021 Political season starts off on Monday May 17th In the State of Washington Please go to The Whatcom County Elections Candidate Resources Page here to get information on what you need to run for office. Please see our related stories: Barry Buchanan to Run for another term as an At-Large Whatcom County Council Candidate: (Vote on continuing long running moratorium on progress at Cherry Point is on the Agenda for Tuesday ...
Paying attention to elections... Like it or not... they matter There are several races this year that have taken on a greater importance because of what the COVID virus, the State Legislature and other actions of government have done in our attitudes toward them.. School Board races, the "small town's" Councils, Port races, as well as the County Council and the City of Bellingham are key to this years elections and should hold ...
This year's legislative session produced some drastic new laws in the state. Laws passed under heavy security and very little in-person input from citizens. U.S. Army National Guardsmen and members of the Washington State Patrol line a fence outside of the Washington State Capitol building on Monday in Olympia. Here is Senator Ericksen's take on the session: One thing that is clear: We All Live in Seattle Now. Whether it is laws ...
5 More Bills of note and how they voted: E2SSB 5126: Click for details Cap-and-trade becomes just one more tax increase – 18 cents per gallon of gas among other costs on home heating and manufacturing – on top of the others being considered this year. The expenditures in SB 5126 would do literally nothing to reduce CO2 emissions. The cap-and-trade and Senate transportation package would increase gas taxes by 28 cents per ...
A coalition of several progressive and socialist organizations have banded together (calling themselves People First Bellingham) to present initiatives to the Bellingham City Council for action. If the Bellingham City Council does not pass these initiatives as ordinances, the initiatives will pass to the voters of the City of Bellingham in November. The following organizations are listed on the website as part of People First Bellingham... Jobs With Justice Imagine No Kages (INK) Whatcom ...
Author Sue Runyan I worked. I retired. I expected to read books, go for walks and grow old. I am succeeding at the last. But there is still work to be done. I love my Country. Marxist Donkeys Are Indefensibly Indivisibles. It is easy to see how Marxist Subversion works in the little town of Sequim. Sequim has a council-manager form of government. The council sets the policy and the City Manager implements ...
April 11th to April 14th Survey Results: The Fourth Corner ran a poll Beginning Sunday April 11 until April 14th. This included all subscribers of the Fourth Corner and was open to the public on Facebook and our website. Over 800 People responded. Thanks for your participation... We ran 10 questions with the main subjects being COVID, Voting and Media. Survey Takers supplied their own demographics on their political leanings, their age, gender, and ...
New taxes bring no "measurable" effect on environment or build better roads Democrats passed both a cap-and-trade and LCFS bill, the impacts of which will increase the gas tax by 55 cents without any measurable effect on the environment or better roads. Combined with the current rates, total gas tax will eventually grow to $1.23/gallon. Sen. Judy Warnick, the top-ranking Republican on the Senate agriculture committee, said, “I think the high cost is going to ...
A Marxist Donkey by Any Other Name is Still a Marxist Donkey By S. Runyan 4-2021 Indivisibles, Progressives, Socialists, Socialist Democrats are all Marxist Democrats. To be fair, there are probably some Democrats that may not know that they are Marxists. Can they be sorted, one from another, from their Marxist counterparts? Make no mistake, these groups are incestuous kin. Small numbers, big noises. In many instances the membership of one is identical to ...
