Blaine Confidential

April 4 letter to Blaine City Council: A wise city government would do everything it can to protect public health and respect civil rights. A foolish city government thinks they are above the law, and risks public health to cash in on irresponsible development. An insane city government thinks they can institute retaliatory policing to silence all opposition to municipal corruption.

April 4 letter to Blaine City Council: FALL GUY In my June 20, 2024  letter to Blaine City Council and Planning Commission  I wrote, As your unlawful land use scheme unravels city wide, and outside agencies bring the rule of law to Blaine, you will likely look for a "fall guy" to take the blame for your official misconduct. Now that City Manager Mike Harmon has gone off the rails mentally, he is the logical choice.  A year later in my May 22, 2025  letter to the city and county  I wrote, For a while, it was anybody's guess whether Blaine City Manager Mike Harmon or Blaine Community Development Services director Alex Wenger would be  the fall guy  for the City of Blaine's demise. Wenger committed fraud by falsifying environmental designations for developers and handing out permit variances to friends, but Harmon was his supervisor. Both Harmon and Wenger serve at the will of the Blaine City Council, but they are nothing more than Mayor Steward's parrots...

April 4 letter to Blaine City Council: Early on in what has now become a full-blown, three-year, municipal criminal enterprise run by Blaine City Manager Mike Harmon, I warned Blaine City Council that this government misconduct would have severe repercussions. Rather than openly discuss the city hall cabal that includes planning director Alex Wenger and hearing examiner Phil Olbrechts, the council chose to express their support for Blaine Police Department and Chief Rodger Funk in the middle of a Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission investigation of four BPD officers--including Funk--for violating our civil rights.  This prejudicial act alone violates our right to equal protection under the law, and our right to petition our government for redress of grievances--without police retaliation, encouraged by Mayor Mary Lou Steward and Blaine City Manager Mike Harmon. The mayor and city manager's decision to commit civil rights violations to intimidate Blaine citizens an...

email from Blaine City Councilman Don Enos, board member, Blaine Chamber of Commerce : Jay, I continue to review your emails regarding past concerns, but I have not yet seen a clear request for action from the current City Council. Based on the emails I have reviewed, your concerns involving former Councilman Hill and city staff appear to have already been directed to the appropriate authorities. Accordingly, there is little the current City Council can do beyond respecting that process and allowing those agencies to perform their duties. If you would like to contribute constructively to the City’s future, I welcome your ideas regarding how you would like to see Blaine grow and improve. The town hall would be the appropriate place to bring forward practical solutions for public discussion. Thank you for sharing your perspective. Respectfully, Councilman Don Enos E: denos@cityofblaine.com M: (360) 812-0322   [Enos has apparently forgotten his March 23, 2026 vote to support police mi...

Former Blaine City Council member  Mike Hill  was previously under investigation by the Whatcom County Sheriff's Department for accosting Blaine Water Coalition activist Otto Pointer at the November 12, 2024, city council meeting (Case #24A39027) . Pointer had contacted the Department of Ecology regarding a November 28, 2023,  Hazardous Materials Analysis Report  presented by GeoEngineers to the City of Blaine, showing Hill's Chevron listed as a 'high-risk' Department of Ecology site (Cleanup Site ID # 9280) due to confirmed releases of petroleum products--including  Benzene --on and off the property,  contaminating the groundwater  that migrates from the Chevron station under Starbuck's toward  Cain Creek  and  Drayton Harbor . The  Drayton Harbor estuary  is home to juvenile endangered  chinook salmon , and I have seen  river otters  in the saltwater marsh below the Chevron station near the planned  Cain C...

Actions you can take to protect your drinking water in Blaine and Birch Bay--watch video to learn about risks from irresponsible development such as the looming Creekside at the Ridge PUD.