Escape From Arcata

Artist Dennis Handy looks at home at his perch behind the desk in his converted Arcata studio/gallery, and his stocky frame, gray beard and casual ...

the town dandy

Portapalooza

All's been quiet on the railroad for a few months. The old Northwestern Pacific line, that dead set of tracks from Humboldt County to the ...

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Where There's Smoke

An old joke in journalism goes this way: A cub reporter comes back from a city council meeting and tells her editor there was no ...

short stories

Clearing the Air

Allie Hostler, public information officer for the Hoopa Valley Tribe, is very worried about the hazardous conditions in Hoopa caused by the smoke from the ...

short stories

Eureka's Top Toto

In the Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West tells Dorothy, “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!” For some ...

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Clear Signals

Editor: Your KHSU story was a terrific piece of journalism that looked beneath the surface narrative -- university bureaucrats trying to stifle political expression -- ...

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Thanks for KHSU story

Editor: I want to express my appreciation for your very thorough report on what has become a very complex and (of course) controversial issue in ...

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KHSU deserves better

Editor: That the university’s creature has turned around to bite it involves all sorts of delicious irony. (“Station Identification,” July 31). When Elizabeth Hans McCrone ...

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Keep KHSU alternative, independent

Editor: Thanks for your article regarding the recent situation at KHSU. (“Station Identification,” July 31). While there are many disturbing aspects, the most disturbing is ...

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Horseplay

Editor: When I picked up the current issue of the North Coast Journal yesterday and read the boxed article about the Arcata City Council voting ...

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Horsin' Around

Editor: A friend of mine encouraged me not to write in, claiming Heidi Walters’ Lipizzaner stallion article was most certainly a hoax. But Ms. Walters’ ...

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Notes All Over

Editor: A few random comments. First, I do not share your dismay that the two young journalists who wrote the very sympathetic article about the ...