Alternative View on Access to Mainland and Negotiations

Tip Johnson submitted his view on the negotiations and possible deal as a comment to the latest ‘negotiation progress‘ post, but they seem more appropriate as a separate post.  Tip includes (not for the first time) a link to the petition to Congress to re-confirm (‘perfect’) the federal road right-of-way from the mainland at Gooseberry [...]

Tip Johnson: My Two Cents

Tip Johnson shared this email to U.S. Senators Cantwell and Murray, and U.S. Rep. Larsen, stating his position on the Right-of-Way (ROW) impact on the Lummi Island ferry situation.  He is doing something we all need to do:  enlist the support of our government representatives in finding a solution to the present impasse in negotiations [...]

Rick Larsen response to proposed ferry blockade

The Herald politics blog has an interesting article of Rick Larsen’s response to the LN proposed blockade of the ferry. There is considerable *reasonable* discussion, including valuable clarification of some information about the road right-of-way that Tip Johnson’s explored and reported on extensively over the past year. And here’s a link to the joint Lummi [...]

Army’s Final Response to Inquiry re Right-of-Way

Tip Johnson has had a on-going correspondence with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers regarding right-of-way and ferry lease negotiations issues.  The following is the Army’s “final response” to Tip’s inquiry: To review the initial correspondence, previously posted on the Ferry Forum: http://lummiislandferryforum.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/federal-response-to-lease-questions/ To read the Army’s latest response: Final response to Mr Johnson re [...]

Federal Response to Lease Questions

In September, Tip Johnson sent a letter to John McHugh, Secretary of the Army, regarding federal right-of-way issues and the ferry lease presently being negotiated with Lummi Nation.  He finally got a response from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers… From Tip: It looks like there is a chance that the arguments may finally end [...]

Brenner answer to ‘mediation’ questions

Since it can sometimes be hard to find comments, Barbara asked me to post her answers to the 3 questions I posed a few days ago in my comment on the story about mediation maybe starting before the end of October. She wanted to make it clear that her answer was in response to my [...]

Kremen response re: LIBC ‘mediation letter’

Pete Kremen called this morning in response to my email query last night asking for follow-up information to Henry Cagey’s (LIBC chair) 10/12/2010 letter about the (non-binding) mediation process.  In that email, which I shared as a comment to last night’s report of Sam Crawford’s receiving the LIBC letter, I promised to report County responses [...]

PLIC to the BIA on Right-of-way & Tidelands

Note:  The PLIC Board of Directors sent a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs through the NW Regional Office (Director Stanley Speaks).   Go to the PLIC Blog on their Web site (www.plicferry.org) for a full explanation of why, as well as the full text of the letter.  The following is a summary of the [...]

Discussion of petition to feds

There’s quite a bit of recent discussion, under an earlier post (Crucial Time in Ferry Negotiations – Again) of the petition to the feds drafted by Tip Johnson.  If you are interested in the petition approach, it probably is worthwhile going to that post and scrolling down to read the full discussion. For future discussion [...]

Letter to the Army

Tip Johnson, as part of his campaign re: the financial end of the ferry negotiations, recently sent this letter to the Secretary of the Army. Hopefully he sent letters to the Coast Guard and Navy, too — and will share what he’s sent here, on the Ferry Forum. Personally, I think Tip’s explanations and logic [...]