Port of Bellingham commissioners are poised to reconsider their earlier decision not to appeal the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s selection of Newport, Ore. instead of Bellingham as the new site for its Pacific Marine Operations Center.
Full story from John Stark, right here.
Various former and current elected officials sent a letter to the editor to us yesterday as well as to the Port Commission advocating that they appeal to NOAA.
In the letter, which included the signatures of Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike, state Sen. Kevin Ranker, D-San Juan Island, Ken Oplinger, President/CEO Bellingham Whatcom Chamber of Commerce and others, the officials argue that the “the 200-plus jobs and the investments in our community would reinvigorate our waterfront” and that “while there’s no guarantee that Bellingham will be the victor after the appeal process, we can never know unless we give it our best effort.”
Read the letter for yourself, right here.
The appeal would have to be filed by the end of the day tomorrow.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:32 PM
The Recession Comes to Holly Street,
Or,
Two Hundred Reasons Why We Deserve NOAA .
Don’t you know the the only difference between what we have now,
and what we could have later,
boils down to 200 jobs?
I guess then that Plan B involves a re-dedication to some other way towards 200 jobs.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:49 PM
“…we can never know unless we give it our best effort.” Interesting choice of words.