Finding community in an ever-changing landscape can be difficult despite this visibility, which has brought some changes to Whatcom County in the last few years.

I’d tried running, pilates, and barre, and hated the lot. Then I moved to London and had to start walking more. Shockingly, I enjoyed it.

The reaction against immigration, in much of the world including USA, is like a symptom of a disease. The disease is over population, but th...

The Republican Congress has given the president too much power so he can be nearly a dictator via executive order. World stock markets go u...

Taxes, to pay for the government services that people use, are an unpopular concept. Often politicians will call them by a different name; f...

Auto workers union still supports the tariffs thinking it will shift work back to USA. If car sales drop and workers get laid off, they may ...

Money is not that good of a measure for quality of life. No amount of money, millions, billions, or even trillions of dollars could have pur...

Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D) dodged a bullet of blame when he voted to along with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling and avert a go...

I'm old enough to remember the 1960s though I was a child. In many ways, it was a more spartan time than today. Compare the transistor radio...

Concern over inflation is one thing that powered Trump's campaign. Now it looks like "bait and switch" as tariffs are likely to add to infla...

# Amtrak has sourced temporary rail cars to restore curtailed Cascades train service, following last week’s removal of 26 Horizon rail cars needing repair for corrosion issues. An additional run to Va...

8 billion plus people, on this planet, can't all live the so called "American Dream" as it's currently defined in much of popular opinion. T...

“Leave us Hamas, we want to live freely,” a crowd could be heard chanting at a demonstration in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Wednesday.

Say hello to a 5-day weekend, according to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates

Much of Trump's thin margin in the popular vote was due to promises to reduce inflation and increase prosperity. Now his rhetoric has shifte...

Family Planning, like Planned Parenthood does, is a better way to deal with an overwhelming number of mouths to feed than starvation. Today'...

This president is basically doing everything with executive orders. Congress is supposed to have a say, but the Republican majority, in Cong...

Image taken by my brother Bill in 1960s. Our consumptive society is causing lots of problems in both the environment and politics. Consum...

Mount Rainier National Park tried to relieve traffic congestion in gateway towns last year but has been quiet on plans for 2025.

Almost five years to the day since COVID shut down the US-Canadian border, Tamra Hansen stands inside her café in Point Roberts worried about the future.

I like having a smartphone, but I think smartphones have led to the degradation of discussion. The small screen and keyboard tends to favor ...

An Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”

The executive order to eliminate content promoting diversity, equity and inclusion has led to eliminating lots of people and their stories ...

The universe could be reborn in a new big bang after its current cycle of expansion? No one knows, of course, but I like this idea better th...

How excessive regulations and endless lawsuits keep America from building the future.

The Goldendale Energy Storage Project, a $2 billion pumped storage hydropower facility, is set to deliver clean energy and create thousands of jobs in WA.

I can see why there is push back against regulation. Regulations stop a lot of things, but we need to figure out how to build a greener fut...

For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance.

A recent NBC poll shows low approval rating for the Democratic Party. Trump's approval is falling also, but not as low as the Democrats. I ...

NASA's newly-launched SPHEREx space telescope will offer a complementary 'panoramic' view to the JWST's high resolution infrared snapshots, enabling astronomers to study some of the universe's biggest...

Advanced transmission technologies could sidestep permitting challenges and clear the bottleneck holding up hundreds of gigawatts’ worth of renewable-energy projects.

It seems like most Americans know more about movies and sports than they do about the communities they live in. This could explain why so ma...

Doug Ford struck his most aggressive tone to date this week as he blamed Donald Trump for “causing chaos” with his tariff threats, and experts say the attacks from Ontario’s Conservative premier and a...

Due to incompetent Republican leadership of the national government plus some other economic worries, the stock market could be trending dow...

I prefer community wealth to personal wealth. My thoughts are different than the thinking of many folks. I think community wealth can includ...

News from San Francisco, but most Bellingham people don't realize; it's also about Bellingham. San Francisco is getting 3 new electric fer...

In my mind are various different scenarios that may, or may not be what the future brings. One possible scenario, given Republican Party ru...