Bob Simmons is a longtime KING-TV reporter who has been writing news for print and television for 65 years.
The Whatcom County Council approved a measure to take back 8,700 acres of land in order to protect a vital water source for Bellingham-area communities. Still, opposition is just around the corner.
In Whatcom County, the park that would be Washington's biggest, is inching closer to reality. Even as local politicians arm wrestle over its future.
After a long few days, there's relief that breast-cancer screening support won't be cut off.
A Crosscut reporter who covered the Berkeley drama of Dec. 2, 1964, that made Mario Savio a leader of a similar movement wonders about the prospects for today's activist movement.
Concern for survival of a once-great herring stock has halted industrial schemes at Cherry Point before. Will it happen again, with the proposed coal-shipping terminal?
