Blaine Confidential

12/28/24 letter to City of Blaine : Long ago, the City of Seattle bought its drinking water watershed in order to keep it pristine and clean. By contrast, the City of Bellingham allowed residential development in its drinking water watershed and has had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars treating its water to remove the pollution from fertilizers, herbicides, and cars.  Apparently, the City of Blaine has chosen to follow the Bellingham model.

12/28/24 letter to City of Blaine : To understand how the City of Blaine might have expected to get away with recent water pollution crimes one needs to view them within the context of the nationwide public health crisis created by industrial polluters as a result of the corruption of the federal government (including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) over the last 40 years since President Reagan marshalled the new Republican Party, which was a marriage between heavy polluters and Christian white supremacists.  Whose Water  --a 2024 documentary film about the simultaneous pollution and privatization of drinking water across the United States--documents the colossal betrayal of public trust and the human rights tragedy unfolding worldwide due to skyrocketing avarice and institutionalized brutality.

During Jay Inslee's twelve years as Governor of Washington State, the Washington Department of Ecology came to adopt a careless attitude toward upholding the State Environmental Policy Act and the federal Clean Water Act, to the point they no longer monitor local governments for compliance with the law, enabling unchecked statewide corruption by local governments enthrall to real estate developers. Our next governor, Bob Ferguson, as Washington State Attorney General likewise took no action to stem bribery and self-dealing by public officials. When citizens are threatened and accosted in public meetings by public officials and developers and local law enforcement turns a blind eye, they look to state and federal officials to help them establish the rule of law and provide equal protection under the law. Inslee and Ferguson have clearly failed their duty to protect the citizens and environment of our state. Federal agencies (EPA and FBI) have one month to end this corruption establi...

12/9/24 letter to Blaine City Council : The Watergate break-in at the Democratic National Party headquarters by President Nixon's burglars happened on June 17, 1972. The U.S. Senate Watergate hearings began in February 1973, and on the verge of being impeached, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. Start to finish, a couple of years.  The Central Business District upzoning fraud perpetrated by Blaine Community Development Services director Alex Wenger, Blaine Planning Commission, Blaine City Council, and Blaine City Manager Mike Harmon recently passed the two-year mark and people are calling for Mayor Mary Lou Steward to resign. Mayor Steward's replacement wannabe Rhyan Lopez reportedly has skeletons of his own, but one tyrant at a time.  With all the official corruption going on in Blaine City Hall, we have what is called a target-rich environment for federal prosecutors as the city is undoubtedly headed for U.S. District Court for violating our civil rights. The volu...

In a week that numerous code violations in the City of Blaine that threaten the Drayton Harbor watershed were reported by Blaine Water Coalition to the U.S. EPA and Washington Department of Ecology, The Northern Light covered the Taylor Swift traffic jam and featured clam digging techniques and tools. 

12/12/24 letter to Blaine City Council : The Washington Association of Realtors and the Building Industry Association of Washington have always opposed environmental protection, treaty rights, and public participation in planning Washington's future. The fact you chose to appoint three realtors to Blaine Planning Commission says a lot about how you view the appearance of fairness and financial conflicts of interest. As obstacles to your avarice, you have selected to ignore them at your peril.