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sept. 18, 2008
The Other Candidates for President
Fifth in a six-part series
by Richard Wall
The most exciting experience you can have as a voter is the write-in. It's the only opportunity in the entire electoral process when you can actually call a shot. You ...
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Invasion of the Auger!
Nasty, virulent beetle likely loose in Arcata, thanks to Homeland Security
by Bob Doran
The ugly little creature has more than one alias. In some places they call it the "auger beetle," because it bores into wood like an auger. It's also called the ...
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St. Joe's Says No
by Heidi Walters
Eureka physician Lee Leer about had a conniption recently when he heard through the grapevine that St. Joseph's Health System was going to ban condoms. St. Joe's, Leer heard, had ...
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Disappointing Drills
by Heidi Walters
Remember last year when those guys were driving and helicoptering all over the Eel River Valley with dynamite and cables to test the geologic underworld for its natural gas potential? ...
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Pay Dirt
by Hank Sims
Over the weekend, the American economy fell deeper and deeper into what many were calling its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Another major Wall Street investment bank failed; ...
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Fast Forward
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: While it may be easy to cast “The Sonoma Gang” in a negative light, it becomes a little more awkward to realize that any modern non-Native American who has ...
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Those Damned Mexicans
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: So sorry to see the usually reliable Hank Sims degenerate into a cursing, bitching partisan on the issue of illegal immigration and the enforcement action at the bulb farms ...
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See the Slaughter
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: Thank you for the article on Wild Chick Farm, which hopefully encouraged people to consider the oft-overlooked fact that the consumption of meat and animal products is based on ...
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Smart Humboldt Shopper II
by Joel Mielke
Cartoon by Joel Mielke.




















