I dug into my archives and found this map I made of 2016 election results aggregated by the (then) new Whatcom County council districts introduced in 2017. Gives a rough sense of the political alignment in our small county here in the northwest corner of Washington State.
I need to update this map with new data from all the elections since 2016, obviously, but it's a hassle to work with the precinct level results. Soon.
Look, Ma! We’re on a bunch of #PNW#radio stations this weekend / week!! 🙌🏻
Tune in via your radio dial if you're in #Seattle (KBFG 107.3 North Seattle), #Bellingham (Koys-Lpfm), #Whatcom County (102.5 KAVZ), or #OceanShores (KOSW-FM) ...
... or from anywhere in the world via those stations website streaming.
@hilljam and I will be tuning in ... let's bop along simultaneously from our various locations like the kids in the 1990's hit film That Thing You Do, c'mon c'mon it'll be fun 🤓
Via the #Whatcom Housing Alliance on FB: "The Community Development Dashboard is one of our favorite resources provided by the City of #BellinghamWA. It is a live map and dashboard reporting the number of projects in development; the number of applications in review; the total value is current projects and a bunch of other fascinating development statistics that help us understand how and where we're growing."
Coal Creek Fire is out, they’re handling a few hot spots. Also was closer to Bell Creek than Coal, that was confusing people. #wawx#BellinghamWa#whatcom#wildfire
Canopy coverage in Bellingham was at around 40% in 2018, above the national average of 27-33% coverage.
But: “Within Bellingham there is a lot of tree canopy inequity,” said Micheal Feerer executive director of the #Whatcom Million Trees Project. “Some neighborhoods like Birchwood [...] have a lot less tree canopy than some of the southern neighborhoods.” https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article278184822.html
I just added #SubduedSocial to the instance pickers at instances.social (@instances), mastodonservers.net, joinfediverse.wiki, masto.town, and I submitted a request for us to be added to the #regional list on joinmastodon.org. I hope more #local#BellinghamWA and #Whatcom people find us! I'm very optimistic about the potential for Mastodon for local conversations, and I hope we can provide a good home for people migrating here from the Bellingham subreddit. #RedditMigration
Hey #Bellingham There's a new group in the Fedi for us to gather in and talk about all things #Whatcom and #BellinghamWA and the surrounding areas. Simply tag your posts about the area withh @BellinghamWA and they will be sent to all subscribers of the group. Follow the group just like you follow any other account on Mastodon.