Latest Opinion
New York private equity firm is sticking it to newspapers
By Adam Lewis For the Record If there’s any industry in the United States that could use a financial boost right now, it’s the newspaper business. The decline of print advertising ...
An appeal for kindness in the face of conflict
By Jon Mutchler Ferndale mayor During the wretched days of Jim Crow, minorities relied upon the Green-Book (by Victor H. Green) to find hotels, restaurants, barbers and salons ...
Ferndale’s Safety Toolkit
By Jon Mutchler Ferndale Mayor Your city government’s number one responsibility is your safety. Protecting our residents from life-threatening danger is not an easy job, but ...
Hits and misses of the legislative session
The Legislature adjourned on March 8. It is great to be back in beautiful Whatcom County. Since being home, we have had opportunities to meet with constituents and local groups ...
New ‘Avengers’ packs a punch with giant cast
Film marks the culmination of 10 years of superhero storytelling By Brent Lindquist [email protected] Comic-book superheroes are a dime a dozen in movies these days, but that ...
Calendar – Week of May 2
Ongoing Noon music The Jansen Art Center, 321 Front St., hosts free live noon-hour entertainment on Wednesdays in the Piano Lounge. It’s Sylvia Bos on May 2 and Doris Mae Bajema on ...
Letters to the Editor — April 4, 2018
On recent WWU vandalism As the Bellingham Herald has reported, in recent weeks several books in the Jewish Collection at WWU Wilson Library were defaced on two separate occasions ...
Canadian newsprint is not the enemy — tariffs are
This op-ed piece by David Chavern, News Media Alliance president and CEO, expresses the viewpoint of this newspaper. Tariffs on Canadian newsprint are not needed, and if they ...
Letters to the Editor — March 21, 2018
Supports I-600 We don’t have to read far into the sport pages or news to find reports of accidents and illnesses, births and deaths. Throughout our lives all people have predictable ...
As Sunshine Week continues, let’s look back at SB 6617
Sunshine Week kicked off on Sunday, and as we celebrate public access to information across the nation, it’s important to not forget Senate Bill 6617. We wrote about it a couple of ...
