I can’t believe that this slipped through my otherwise reliable fatherly pride radar! My friend Leah posted on Facebook that my son Julian actually appears in the Journey To Action video I posted yesterday, the one about Bellingham’s living local economy. I watched the darned thing several times and totally missed him and his friend Jonah, who appear for a few seconds at the 5:04 mark.
Check it out!
I have to admit that I’m embarrassed when it’s Monday and the most recent post here is titled Video Fridays.
Of course, it’s arguably more embarrassing that I’m posting this just to bump the Video Fridays post down the page.
When I wrote this yesterday…
And yet, I’d never come to the overall positive view of Bellingham that I have if I interpreted every setback as the beginning to the end or the continuation of everything bad I’ve read in the past. To use an apt metaphor, doing so it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, to see the many good things that happen, large and small, everyday.
…I had no idea that my resolve to stay optimistic would be challenged so soon.
Whatcom County voters narrowly rejecting WTA tax increase
JARED PABEN / THE BELLINGHAM HERALDVoters were very narrowly rejecting a measure to raise the local sales tax for Whatcom Transportation Authority, according to early elections returns Tuesday, April 27.
A total of 50.29 percent of voters were against the increase, and 49.71 percent were in support of it, according to the first count by the Whatcom County Auditor’s Office.
Only 274 ballots separated them, of 47,536 counted so far.
The only measure in the special election, Proposition 1 asked Whatcom County voters whether they want to raise the local sales tax by two-tenths of 1 percent for WTA, which says that bus service cuts will be necessary without the increase. The increase would cost an extra 20 cents for a $100 purchase in taxable goods.
It will be tremendously sad if WTA has to cut bus service, including all Sunday service, just because people aren’t willing to pay an extra two-tenths of 1 percent sales tax.
Here’s hoping the Yes votes catch up!
Every Friday morning on KUGS, WWU’s radio station, there’s a Funk and Soul show called The Get Up Get Down, and this morning I fell in love with a song, from an obscure early 60s-late 70s Chicago band, Pieces of Peace, called Flunky For Your Love:
Dig it:
Sorry, but if you are willing to spend $1.5 million on this:
A U.S businessman claims he’s been sitting on 3D body scans from 1996, when MJ was aged 37. It’s rumored the singer wanted a virtual or robot double, and this data, if real, would enable just that.
…then you really don’t deserve to have $1.5 million to begin with.
Check this out! Scientists have discovered evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, in 3,500-year old Egyptian mummies!
Man, I sure hope they develop an effective treatment.
