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this week

The CASA

A legally appointed buddy can help a kid move forward when life seems to have lurched to a stop
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Dr. Ring's Single-Payer Puppet Show

april 16, 2009

Birders of America

april 9, 2009

The CASA
april 23, 2009

inside

music

Arcata Sectarian

THE HUM by Julianna Boggs

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poem

Above the Old Barn

POEM by Tamara Jenkinson

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garden

Something Wicked

DIRT by Amy Stewart

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savage-money

Poverty's Handmaidens

SAVAGE MONEY by Jennifer Savage

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field-notes

The Mad River Canal

FIELD NOTES by Barry Evans

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review

Bunny Gets Paid (Deluxe Reissue)

IN REVIEW by Mark Shikuma

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review

Fleet Foxes/Blitzen Trapper

IN REVIEW by Julianna Boggs

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movies

Actor! Actor!

FILMLAND by Rich Cline

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news and views

the town dandy

Milk Dud

Wasn't it just last Tuesday (April 14) that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors preliminarily approved the expense of $22,000 in scare county funds to ...

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short stories

A Measure of Tea

It's a sunny but blustery April 15 in Humboldt County. Somewhere between 200-300 protesters have gathered in front of the Eureka Courthouse to join in ...

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short stories

Hurwitz Fraud Trial Begins

The federal trial in which Texas financier Charles Hurwitz, the former owner of Pacific Lumber, is being sued for defrauding the U.S. government of hundreds ...

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The VA Way

Editor: Very interesting article on the single-payer system and Dr. Ring’s approach to informing the public. However, if you want to know what a single-payer ...

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44th Rhododendron Parade

Cartoon by Joel Mielke

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T-S Will Prevail

Editor: The letter in this week’s North Coast Journal calling for the death of the Times-Standard is irresponsible and a disservice to the community (“Mailbox,” ...

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Maginot Grove

Editor: Your “Sweet Irony” piece reminded me of something Dennis Miller would have written when he got a job at FOX after his HBO stint ...

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Heard of Sunlight?

Editor: I was disappointed when I saw Ryan Burns’ article, “When Weed is Legal” (April 16). To me it came off as an ad for ...

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