Hear local community member Jim McKinney discuss his recent contract deployment to Afghanistan. He will provide his personal take on important questions, and the relevance to our community:
Is the US/NATO/Afghan government making progress in the war?
What are the challenges and future for Afghanistan?
How does it relate to America?
What does it mean to Whatcom County?
Were you wondering what questions would be asked at a candidate forum? Why would you want to attend a political candidate forum? They’re all an echo chamber saying the same thing, aren’t they? Answer? No. The questions that were created for the 2018 Whatcom County-wide forum (and for the Skagit County-wide forum) were submitted by local groups who are …
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In 2016 the Whatcom County Council passed a moratorium on permitting for new projects related to fossil fuels in the Cherry Point Industrial Zone. At the same time the Council also approved spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a study to stop the expansion (growth) or exports of fossil fuels from these facilities, too. The focus of that study was …