this week
Crude Figures
Humboldt's soaring gas prices are putting the bust back into combustion
by Japhet Weeks
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news and views
Bike Lock
What remains of the former Arcata Library Bikes is not shiny and new. A pile of rusty cogs, broken spokes and flattened rubber wheels attached ...
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About Schmidt
Confidential to Corpus Christi Federal Bankruptcy Judge Richard S. Schmidt: All is forgiven. The first few months of the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case — the ...
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Cow v. Horse
Editor: I am writing in response to last week's cover story on the low market value for horses in this area ("Ends Meet," June 5). ...
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Cold Links
Editor: Marcy Burstiner makes a few interesting points regarding newspapers and the Internet ("Media Maven," June 5). I agree that newspapers could identify net links ...
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USFS Knob Sale
Editor: Seth Naman's story about the Salmon River kayak and raft race was almost as good as getting wet, but there's one point that bears ...
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The Watery Farewell
Last Monday morning, a bumbling yellow bus carried Mr. Trone's fourth-grade students eastbound down Highway 299. The Pine Hill Elementary students were about to say ...
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Gas Crime
A few months ago, security tapes from the Indianola Market captured images of a "decent-looking guy" rolling up to the gas pump in a White ...
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Have RV, still gonna travel
Well, you bought the damned thing — you might as well use it. That's the advice one rich fella says to another rich fella who, ...
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