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Exercise your right to vote and choose to be informed. Join the BCC to see and hear candidates in person, and decide which candidates best serve you. Democracy is not a spectator sport. You and your vote matter. The City Club will conduct the following candidate and...
A Historian's Perspective This program was not recorded at the speaker's request. As the nation celebrates 250 years since its founding in a rebellion against imperial rule, many Americans worry that our democracy is now sliding towards authoritarianism. How did we...
Nick Brown, Washington State’s 19th Attorney General, is a graduate of Morehouse College and Harvard Law School. Nick began his legal career in the Army JAG Corps, where he received the Bronze Star for his work defending the rights and liberties of young soldiers....
Canada's Perspective and Leadership What it Means for Canada, the US, and Whatcom County In January, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at the World Economic Forum and said the old-world order is gone and “more recently, great powers have begun using economic...
The Nooksack River Today & Tomorrow Floods! Fish! Farms! Our Future! Atmospheric rivers pummel us with ever greater frequency, and our changing climate will impact the Nooksack River, the key water source for Bellingham and most of Whatcom County. It is also a...
Hart Hodges and James McCafferty of WWU Center for Economic and Business Research will join us to provide their evaluations of how the economy is doing nationally, statewide and locally including current trends for the cost-of-living, tariffs, and the national debt....
The costs, the access to, and the quality of healthcare was on everyone's mind as we watched the battles in the other Washington, from changes to Medicaid to the increasing costs of Obamacare. Whatcom County residents are in shock as they open their bills for...
The temporary interruption of the SNAP program brought into focus that for many folks in our community the cupboards were bare without the help of food banks, whose resources were already strained. Why in the richest country of the world do families struggle to put...
How the Federal Government Politicized the Nation's Public Health and Increased Our Health Risks Join the Bellingham City Club on November 19th as Dr. Alan Lifson discusses how the current federal administration has systematically and severely damaged the nation’s...
Port Candidate Race and Commission Expansion; County Governance; New Funding for Bellingham Schools The Bellingham City Club October program will include the candidate race for Port Commissioner, a pro and con discussion of the proposition to expand the Port from 3 to...
Races for three City Council seats, three County Council seats, and a Port Commissioner are on the ballot in November along with several initiatives. To help our members make informed choices, we will continue our candidate and initiative forums in September and...