this week
Mending Broken Hearts
Renaissance and denial play role as St. Joseph grapples with high mortality estimate for heart failure
by Carol Harrison
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books
My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
BOOKNOTES by Brent Jenkins
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Giant Circus Tent
By the staid, bureaucratic standards of the Humboldt County Planning Commission, last week's town hall-style meeting was a wild one. Granted, those standards may be ...
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Scenes from our Beheading
Rubbernecking the collapse of the world. The news isn't all bad! ^^^^^ WINNER! One would be Redwood Capital Bank, which joins Umpqua Bank in the ...
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Credit gaffe
Last week's "Media Maven" erroneously credited The New York Times with uncovering a Central Intelligence Agency-run network of secret offshore prisons for detainees taken in ...
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Global Warming Win
Well, all of you sniggerers who like to put down Arcata for meddling in distant world affairs when it ought to be attending to its ...
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Report Cards
Editor: Ryan Burns' story "Crossing Schools" was a pleasant and welcome surprise in your Feb. 5 paper. I have taught at Dow's Prairie School for ...
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Unfit to Print?
Editor: Marcy Burstiner correctly notes that "here in Humboldt, we all seem to complain about the quality of our local newspapers" ("Dark Ages," Feb. 5). ...
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For the Birds
It's a pleasure to see poetry, especially about birds, published in the North Coast Journal ("Foot of Del Norte Street," Feb. 5). However, the "grackles" ...
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Ripping the Rep Rap
Editor: I saw The Wild Guys last week and I must have been at a different play than your critic, William S. Kowinski ("Stage Matters," ...
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