Community Voices

Commentary: Bellingham’s challenges are in recruiting and retaining police officers, not lack of funding.

Commentary: Meet Sandy Hart, who may have one of the most interesting jobs in Bellingham.

Commentary: Knowledge and awareness of the challenges Indigenous peoples face are good; what matters is action.

Commentary: Collaboration is the only way to solve the twin problems of too little water at one time, too much at another, in the Nooksack Basin.

Commentary: A Whatcom County Council vote established a racial equity commission; now, the challenge for supporters is to engage others in the conversation, an organizer writes.

Commentary: Even though everyone wants to give their children more and better opportunities than they had, the deck is stacked in favor of babies born to families steeped in “social capital.”

Commentary: Recent letters to editors and from local officials demonstrate misunderstanding of “water rights adjudication.”

Commentary: On the verge of homelessness at a crucial time, Jack Westford considers himself to be “one of the lucky ones.”

Commentary: Inaction on ferry service issues guarantees that what we know is bad will almost inevitably get worse.

Commentary: Government, in balancing the peace, health and economic welfare of the people, has an interest when it comes to private property rights.

A transformation from homeless heroin addict to thriving college graduate and co-occurring disorder specialist was made with help along the way.

Summer streamflows in the Nooksack Basin have been declining for decades, while the need for irrigation water grows as summers get hotter and rainfall diminishes.

Racial Unity Now-Lynden’s approach of addressing racism under a Christian framework may indeed “be the bridge” for community engagement.

A community resident finds herself without long-term housing after a downward spiral into homelessness.

Despite a difficult start to a difficult life, a woman in her 60s looks forward to finding housing — and reconnecting with family.