The Bellingham Herald

WHATCOM OPINION COLUMNS

Campaign launched to fund downtown performance space

Local performing arts groups struggle to find space in Bellingham that is affordable, appropriately sized and designed for their art. Often they modify their productions to accommodate the limitations of available performance spaces. In need of appropriate performance space, some of Bellingham's...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Concerned Pebble mine hurts fishery

As a commercial fisherman who relies on the health of the Bristol Bay salmon resource in Alaska, I was happy to see your article published April 26th discussing the EPA's release of their revised Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment. Once again, the study has confirmed that large-scale open pit mine...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Questions jobs at coal terminal

Regularly I see in The Bellingham Herald stories about new companies in our area creating new jobs, as in the May 11 paper "Coastal.com opened in fall, employs 72." Adjoining this article was "CO2 in air measured at record levels." There is no question that our economy along with jobs is improving...

NORTHWEST OPINION COLUMNS

Texting while driving an epidemic among teens

If a superbug were killing more than 3,000 American teenagers a year and seriously sickening more than 300,000, parents would be screaming for something to be done to protect their children.

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NORTHWEST OPINION COLUMNS

40 years of helping communities’ older population

YAY: HELPING SENIORS

46 minutes ago

NORTHWEST OPINION COLUMNS

We must make all children get quality education

Our state legislators must figure out a way to “make ample provision” for educating all our children. Washington’s courts have ruled that:

46 minutes ago

NORTHWEST OPINION COLUMNS

Gateway needs heroes in Olympia

Take a good look at the list to the right. Those 24 lawmakers have the power to create nearly 100,000 jobs and keep Pacific Rim shipping pouring into Puget Sound through the 21st century.

NATIONAL OPINION COLUMNS

Leonard Pitts Jr.: In Florida, timely injustice

At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.