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feb. 12, 2009
Giant Circus Tent
Loose lips sail ships at county's informal session on housing
by Ryan Burns
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 lower on the drama-scale than ...
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Global Warming Win
by Heidi Walters
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 own potholes, here's your comeuppance: ...
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Scenes from our Beheading
by Hank Sims
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 ranks of local financial institutions ...
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Report Cards
by North Coast Journal Readers
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 24 years and was expecting ...
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Unfit to Print?
by North Coast Journal Readers
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). But when she lists the ...
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For the Birds
by North Coast Journal Readers
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" in the poem are undoubtedly ...
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Ripping the Rep Rap
by North Coast Journal Readers
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," Feb. 5). First mistake is ...
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Snow Job
by North Coast Journal Readers
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 Dandy," Jan. 29) is a ...
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Credit gaffe
by North Coast Journal Staff
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 the "war on terror"; in ...

















