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jan. 8, 2009
O, Eucalyptus!
Should they stay or should they go?
by Heidi Walters
We pause now to interrogate a couple hundred of our longest-enduring residents. Experts tell us these old-timers are in the way. Creaky old limbs. Messy. And, besides, they're not really ...
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Drive-Thru Redwoods
No peace in SoHum over Richardson Grove realign
by Cristina Bauss
The public-comment process for Caltrans's proposed realignment of U.S. Highway 101 at Richardson Grove began with a low-key meeting in late September 2007, held at the Benbow Valley RV Resort. ...
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Nancy's Day
by Dave Silverbrand
"I'm so deeply sorry," said Steven Daniel Hash, the thin, soft-spoken man in the orange jump suit, his words barely audible to the woman sitting nearby. Nancy Huntzinger stared back, ...
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Madoffed?
by Heidi Walters
The victims of Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme continue to pile up at the base of the cliff, a sad tangle of duped philanthropic organizations, banks, hedge funds and individuals. ...
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This Means War
by Hank Sims
"Don't imagine your cool new president is going to give you a pass," we said a week after the Nov. 4 election, in re the successful Eureka and Arcata citizen ...
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It’s a Weed
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: As much as I like the photography and artistic creativity of the New Year’s photo essay, I feel the need to express how old and boring this is getting ...
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Sam
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: I want to thank you again for last week’s article about Sam Price (“Saving Sam,” Dec. 25). I agree with Jessie Brownlee’s comment that we all could have done ...
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Rx for St. Joe
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: While I wouldn’t have used the term “fed-up,” I am extremely disappointed by the conduct of the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph Hospital (“Medical Chief Grief,” Jan. 1). ...
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Media Moron
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: I seriously don’t think I have ever read anything in this paper as wild as “Zombies of the ER,” by Marcy Burstiner (Jan. 1). Having an apparent meltdown over ...
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Caveat Lector
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: I have been reading the NCJ for as long as it has been published. I look forward to each new edition arriving in time for my once a week ...
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Computer Glitch
by North Coast Journal Readers
Because of a computer error, the URL given in Cindee Grace’s letter last week (“Mailbox,” Jan. 1) was printed incorrectly. The true address at which her book Holistic Self-Care for ...


















