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feb. 5, 2009
Dark Ages
by Marcy Burstiner
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 yourself in the dark. Think ...
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Broadband Disconnect
by Ryan Burns
When it comes to bringing our rural nooks and crannies into the 21st Century -- or, heck, late-20th would do -- it may seem like little to no progress is ...
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Midnight Reg Runaround
Forest rule would make even granny basket weavers go get a permit
by Heidi Walters
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 and fall. In March and ...
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Highway Robbery
by Hank Sims
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 pay $1.3 million to settle ...
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Some of Eureka's many contributions to insomnia
by Joel Mielke
Cartoon by Joel Mielke
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Corrections
by North Coast Journal Staff
“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 “The Town Dandy,” referring to ...
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Hobart’s Suit
by North Coast Journal Readers
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 with Brown v. Humboldt Kinetic ...
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PG-13
by North Coast Journal Readers
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 verbal masturbation in place of ...


















