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ARSENIC IN BLAINE'S DRINKING WATER UNSAFE

As reported at Water Planning Matters, the municipal drinking water for Blaine and Birch Bay is unsafe due to naturally-occurring arsenic contamination that frequently reaches the legal limit of 10 parts per billion. Long term ingestion of arsenic contaminated water can cause cancer, cardiovascular disease, and incident stroke. While 10 parts per billion is the legal limit, as little as 5 parts per billion is now known to cause significant reductions in working memory and perceptional reasoning in schoolchildren. Exposure in early life is linked to permanent decreases in IQ and impaired brain development.  When the land is disturbed, arsenic is "unlocked" from the soil and flushed into the water table and our drinking water. The City of Blaine stormwater designs for the proposed Creekside manufactured home park over the municipal aquifer do not have the capacity to remove quinone, a highly-toxic tire wear chemical that travels with the arsenic into our city wells. The Creeks...
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CREEKSIDE THREATENS PUBLIC HEALTH

Watching our state and county governments in action up close for two years, I'm surprised anything ever gets done. Not for lack of awareness of public health and civil rights violations by the City of Blaine, but because they apparently don't care. Not even an imminent threat to a municipal drinking water system can get agencies charged with protecting public health and civil rights to do anything as simple as send an official letter of concern. Forget about them actually holding criminal public officials accountable. Right now, the proposed 568-unit Creekside manufactured home park threatens the drinking water for 17,000 customers in Blaine and Birch Bay. Read the latest from Water Planning Matters .
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HOLDING COUNTY PROSECUTOR ACCOUNTABLE

Jay Taber 715 G St #22 Blaine, WA 98230 (360) 371-4387 tbarj@yahoo.com April 30, 2026 Eric J. Richey Whatcom County Prosecuting Attorney 311 Grand Avenue, Suite 201 Bellingham, WA 98225 Re: Supplemental Request for Attorney General Referral, Conflict Review, and Preservation of Record Dear Mr. Richey: I write in response to your April 27, 2026 letter declining further action on my request for review. This letter supplements my March 31, 2026 submission and updates the record with the additional correspondence and evidence now assembled. In your April 27 letter, you state that the materials I provided consisted of allegations not supported by independent or verifiable evidence and that, because they originated from me, they presented concerns regarding potential bias. I respectfully disagree with that characterization as applied to the present record. The record now includes my March 31, 2026 complaint to your office requesting review and referral to the Washington State Attorney Genera...
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COUNTY PROSECUTOR COVERS UP CRIMES

On April 27, 2026, Whatcom County Prosecutor Eric Richey declined to investigate Blaine City Councilwoman Sarbjit Bains for self-dealing by her March 9, 2026 vote to suspend the Blaine Municipal Code for Central Business District developers, including Ms. Bains and her husband Gurdeep. This is the third Blaine official engaged in criminal acts that Richey has refused to investigate in the last year. Blaine Planning Commissioner Sam Randhawa committed perjury and self-dealing, while Community Development Services director Alex Wenger committed fraud a year ago on Ordinance 25-3028 , in which Randhawa had a direct financial conflict of interest.
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DEMAND FOR SARBJIT BAINS RESIGNATION

Under Washington State law and City of Blaine rules of procedure, City Councilwoman Sarbjit Bains must resign for committing self-inurement, commonly known as self-dealing.  Bains committed self-dealing by her  March 9, 2026 vote to suspend the Blaine Municipal Code  for Central Business District developers, including herself and her husband Gurdeep. Bains  March 23, 2026 vote to support police misconduct against open government activists who exposed Gurdeep's self-dealing as a Downtown Advisory Committee member on June 6, 2023 demonstrates a penchant for retaliatory policing. The unlawful eagle tree massacre in September 2025 at 1117 Leighton Street (DRAYTON REACH, DIV 2, LOT 15) happened within the Blaine Shoreline Master Program buffer along Drayton Harbor, thus violating the Shoreline Management Act and Critical Areas Ordinance.  Three mature Douglas Fir trees that eagles use for perches when hunting salmon were deliberately girdled to cause their death. Wi...
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TIMELINE OF TYRANNY

June 6, 2023 Downtown Advisory Committee member and developer Gurdeep Bains commits self-dealing by voting to change the code to financially benefit himself.  January 15, 2024   Pentland report to the City of Blaine  reveals   self-dealing in the Central Business District  by Downtown Advisory Committee member Gurdeep Bains. June 10, 2024   Downtown developer and Councilman Mike Hill fails to recuse himself on the  vote by city council  to  reduce parking requirements for  developers in the Central Business District . November 12, 2024   Councilman Mike Hill  accosted open government activist Otto Pointer   for revealing the downtown toxic waste site under Hill's Chevron . September 24, 2025   Washington Coalition for Open Government secretary George Erb op-ed Open government is an antidote to mistrust  published in The Northern Light. October 13, 2025   David Brudvik, a supporter of Mayor Steward,   is...
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CHERRY POINT FLASHBACK

When I wrote White Power on the Salish Sea in May 2013, I owed much to Birch Bay researcher, Sandra Robson. In May 2014, I put together a Timeline . In May 2015, Robson wrote A Sovereign Nation Stands Tall about Lummi Nation's fight to stop the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal at Cherry Point. In January 2018, the Center for World Indigenous Studies published my Anti-Indian Movement series.
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