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 ...

short stories

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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Snow Job

Editor: The suggestion by Hank Sims that critics of the Headwaters Fund Board "tape their mouths shut or jump into the sea in shame" ("Town ...