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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: ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2019-04-16T12:26:53-07:00April 16, 2019|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News, Rural Living|0 Comments

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 ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2019-03-12T22:55:33-07:00March 12, 2019|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News, Rural Living|2 Comments

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

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By Charlie Crabtree|2019-03-08T17:20:52-08:00March 8, 2019|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News, Rural Living|1 Comment

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 ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2019-02-11T15:41:43-08:00February 11, 2019|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News|1 Comment

County Council votes to continue Moratorium in Ferndale School District Area

Council VS School District Future... Todd Donovan and a majority of the County Council continue a "non-decision" over three years with another 6 month Moratorium. This Moratorium stops all business upgrades at Cherry Point. In a resolution co-authored by Re-Sources,(our article on Re-Sources and their Green Mail "extortion" practices is here; Stand Earth (our article on their threat to the Whatcom Business Alliance is here) and County Councilman Todd Donovan; (our article on ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2019-02-07T16:56:04-08:00February 7, 2019|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News|2 Comments

40th District Senator Kevin Ranker Resigns

Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-40 Sen Kevin Ranker has informed the Governor that he is resigning from the Washington State Senate. He has served the 40th District that contains Southern Whatcom County, San Juan County and Parts of Skagit County since being elected in 2008. As soon as possible three people will be nominated to serve as a replacement and will be selected by Precinct Committee Officers of the Democratic Parties of Whatcom, ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2019-01-12T17:35:31-08:00January 12, 2019|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics|1 Comment

Breaking: 40th district Democratic Sen. Kevin Ranker under investigation after allegations of improper conduct.

Breaking Senator Kevin Ranker under Investigation The State Senate is conducting an outside investigation of 40th district Democratic Sen. Kevin Ranker following allegations of improper conduct. Senator Kevin Ranker "Ann Larson, who served as Ranker’s legislative assistant for a year nearly a decade ago, said the investigation is related to sexual harassment and hostile workplace issues. She says she also was subjected to hostile encounters involving Ranker once she left to work ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2018-12-17T20:04:28-08:00December 17, 2018|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Media Watch|0 Comments

Part 1 Election Results: 2 out of 3 GOP candidates beat tremendous odds and win in the 42nd District.

This is the First of a series of articles analyzing the results of the 2018 election in Whatcom County. All three Republican Candidates received less than 50% in their Primaries on August 7th. The year of the Blue Wave came and went in Northern Whatcom County and in 2 out of 3 cases the GOP held on to their seats in a squeaker of an election that ended in a 4 day hand ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2018-12-09T21:42:34-08:00December 9, 2018|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News|1 Comment

URGENT ALERT: City Council to hold hearing to endorse the Carbon Tax Initiative. A “No Energy Tax” Rally Planned

Please make certain you turn in your voted ballot ASAP. The Bellingham City Council is holding a hearing Monday night at 7:00PM on supporting the "new tax" on Carbon to be voted on in the current election. Mike Peetoom At-Large County Council Candidate: Suggests that people show up on Monday October 22nd at 5:30 in front of City Hall to rally before they testify to the Council on "how harmful this new ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2018-10-21T16:23:25-07:00October 21, 2018|Elections, Government & Politics, Environment and Climate Change, Fourth Corner News|0 Comments

Threats and Bullying: “Kill Doug Erickson” and the Kavanaugh hearings : a look at future Democrats goverence?

January 2017 Protest Remember to Vote before November 6th (Ballots mailed around October 17th) It may turn out to be difficult for the voter in this election to make a decision on races because of the real dearth of information on the differences between the candidates. Instead from early 2017 to now we get demonstrations, intimidations, and bullying like the photo above that appeared on KING 5. We need an ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2018-10-04T13:18:05-07:00October 4, 2018|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Elections, Government & Politics, Fourth Corner News, Media Watch, Rural Living|1 Comment