Midnight Reg Runaround

Around this time of year, the basket weavers up around Orleans are gathering and cleaning willow root from the river exposed by the water's rise ...

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Dark Ages

In the information infrastructure, newspapers represent the outmoded grid. But if you tear down the grid without having a replacement in place you will find ...

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Broadband Disconnect

When it comes to bringing our rural nooks and crannies into the 21st Century -- or, heck, late-20th would do -- it may seem like ...

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Highway Robbery

The Eureka-based construction firm Mercer Fraser, well known for its work on roads and highways locally and around the north state, last week agreed to ...

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Corrections

“For the first time in many, many years, Humboldt County’s unemployment rate had just slipped beneath the state average,” stated the Jan. 22 edition of ...

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Some of Eureka's many contributions to insomnia

Cartoon by Joel Mielke

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Hobart’s Suit

Editor: In your recent article “Hobart’s Children” (Jan. 29), you wrote: “Where did the current litigious battle for his legacy begin? Ellin Beltz suggests starting ...

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PG-13

Editor: Last week’s “Town Dandy” (Jan. 29) was yet another example of why I shield my children from the local weekly in our town. Your ...