Latest Opinion

Letter to the Editor: Sept. 21, 2022

Safer and better Whatcom County Editor, As a Bellingham neighbor, I urge my Ferndale friends to consider candidate Sharon Shewmake for the 42nd District Senate race. We all share a ...

Sports, festivals, food trucks, concerts and a fair: What more could an intern ask for?

Perfect. That’s the word I can think of that sums up my summer internship. Since the fall 2021 quarter, I knew I wanted to do my internship this year, but I just didn’t know where ...

Letters to the Editor: Sept. 14, 2022

Idealistic but pragmatic  Editor, The qualities that make a good professor are the same I want to see in my elected officials. Putting the needs of students first, taking action for ...

Thank you, everybody

By Connor J. Benintendi [email protected]  WHATCOM — It has been nearly a year since I began working at the Lynden Tribune. In that time, I have built skills that I never ...

GUEST OPINION: Fall has beautiful virtues

I grew up on the remnants of my mom’s childhood farm. It had become a hobby farm for our tenure after being a working farm. My neighbors had dairy farms with a few small berry farms ...

GUEST OPINION: Eco-Utopian ideas fail on constitutional principles

The climate-emergency-snoots who populate the governments of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, are having their Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference near Blaine on Sept. 12-13. ...

Letters to the Editor — Sept. 7, 2022

Letter: Appreciate, enjoy and love Editor, He stopped by the Jansen Art Center the other day. He didn’t tell me his name, but said he lived alone in a trailer park, was retired and ...

GUEST OPINION: Thinking people

By Judy Heinrichs New week, new challenges, political situations, voting, pandemics. I would like to invite you to come out to Sumas or maybe another community that experienced the ...

Letters to the Editor — Aug. 31, 2022

Letter: Equitable opportunities through education Editor, I am impressed that Rep. Sharon Shewmake consistently supports investing in early education with the goal of breaking cycles ...

Letters to the Editor: August 24, 2022

Hope and prayer Editor, As the summer winds down, and Roe v. Wade is off the books, we can only speculate on the future of America’s Unborn. Lynden Human Life spent 10 days at the ...