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Water and the Nooksack Flooding solution

Whatcom farmers share Whatcom mayors’ concern over Ecology’s misleading statements, stalled collaboration... (LYNDEN, Wash.) Whatcom Family Farmers agrees with the mayors of five Whatcom cities, who are expressing their concerns about the Washington Department of Ecology’s troubling efforts to promote a harmful legal action against local water users, rather than support an inclusive, collaborative process to reach comprehensive solutions. In a June 14 letter to Ecology director Laura Watson, the local mayors suggest the ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-06-22T14:00:40-07:00June 22, 2022|Advice, Opinion & Guest Writers, Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments

Snake River Dam Insanity Will Destroy Washington Prosperity

Inslee: On the one hand destroy our dams... on the other hand manage "our fragile grid" While energy prices are reaching new highs, Governor Inslee is continuing his bipolar and ill-conceived efforts at “transforming” the energy grid in Washington state. On one hand, and removing eight percent of our hydroelectric power. On the other hand, in a campaign email, he predicts a summer of blackouts, death and destruction due to “our fragile energy grid”. ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-06-22T10:56:20-07:00June 22, 2022|Advice, Opinion & Guest Writers, Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|1 Comment

County Executive plans to bring Gun Control Resolution before Council in Coming Weeks

Executive Report for Council Meeting of June 7, 2022 Satpal S Sidhu Good Evening Council and Whatcom County Residents, I would like to talk about sensible gun laws. Today Mathew McConaughey addressed this very issue to our Federal lawmakers asking them to honor their moral obligations instead of party affiliations. We all want gun laws that make sense and will make it very difficult for sick people to obtain military style assault weapons. The current ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-06-14T11:44:40-07:00June 14, 2022|Advice, Opinion & Guest Writers, Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|11 Comments

New WA Building Codes Will Deepen the Housing Crisis

Got Housing? New Building Codes will deepen the Housing Crisis. Last week, in “Welcome to the Board”, we discussed boards, their duties and responsibilities (what do boards do). In addition to the common boards that you are familiar with, like school boards, there are many administrative boards that have been given rule or code making responsibilities by the state legislature. The is one of these powerful unelected boards (). The State Building Code ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-06-14T10:13:41-07:00June 14, 2022|Advice, Opinion & Guest Writers, Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments

The Parental School Revolt Continues voters delivered a message to incumbents in April

In Whatcom County of 8 challenged seats on the school boards 4 went to challengers.Read the Local Story Here. In Whatcom County in the November 2021 Elections 4 school board challengers were elected replacing 4 out of the 8 incumbents running for school board positions in Whatcom County. Generally speaking the Unions reaction to COVID and the curriculum battles over CRT along with other items have continued to draw the attention of voters nationwide; ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-10-25T03:26:00-07:00June 9, 2022|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Education, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments

Welcome to the Board by Nancy Churchill Dangerous Rhetoric

Welcome to the Board Last month, in a column titled “!” I encouraged readers to get involved in the culture war and push back against the rule of “experts”. I wrote “You can give in to ‘the experts’ or you can exercise your civic duty to fight for the liberties defined in our constitution. This is a war of ideas, of words, of conversations, of education, of culture.” () In response to this ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-06-09T10:12:01-07:00June 9, 2022|Advice, Opinion & Guest Writers, Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments

Honoring a Life of Public Service

The Ferndale City Council Considers a Resolution on naming the Road to I-5 Connection Bridge, The Senator Douglas J. Ericksen Bridge. From the time he entered college until the time he passed away his life's goal was not money but to serve those in his community. I was lucky to be a friend of Doug Ericksen for many of those years. He worked hard as a "part time" member of the state legislature for ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-05-30T21:24:46-07:00May 30, 2022|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments

Nancy Churchill Latest (May 23rd) Dangerous Rhetoric

Doubling Down on a Bad Idea How about those gas prices? It’s getting more and more difficult to pay for a tank of gas! The UK Daily Mail reported some Washington state gas stations are reprogramming their equipment to allow for $10/gallon gas (). They also reported that Washington’s average gas price is around $5.03/gallon. Washington’s gasoline prices are some of the highest in the nation, behind California, Hawaii, and Nevada. Senator ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-05-30T11:10:52-07:00May 30, 2022|Advice, Opinion & Guest Writers, Beyond the Fourth Corner, Environment and Climate Change, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments

Remembering those who died serving the USA

Army Spc. Aaron S. Aamot Died November 5, 2009 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom He was 22, of Custer, Wash.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.; died Nov. 5 in Jelewar, Afghanistan, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with an improvised explosive device. Aaron Seth Aamot was born on April 12, 1987, in his grandmother's house on the ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-05-30T14:50:52-07:00May 30, 2022|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments

42nd District Senator Sefzik pushes bill that would cut gas tax… Democrats would rather go home on time.

Sefzik makes 9th Order motion on Senate floor March 8, 2022. To see video, click here. By moving for the 9th Order, a motion allowing the full Senate to bring a bill to the floor, the freshman senator attempted a parliamentary maneuver usually entrusted to the most wizened of lawmakers. OLYMPIA – A proposal from Sen. Simon Sefzik to give Washington consumers a $1 billion break on fuel costs was shot down ...

By Charlie Crabtree|2022-03-10T12:27:19-08:00March 10, 2022|Beyond the Fourth Corner, Fourth Corner News, The Fourth Corner|0 Comments