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june 4, 2009
Dear Barack
By Judy Hodgson
by Judy Hodgson
Two weeks ago, President Obama sent me an e-mail asking me to tell my personal story about the importance of health care reform in my life. He reminded me of ...
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For What It's Worth
by Marcy Burstiner
Top execs from just about every major U.S. newspaper chain met in Chicago late last month to discuss ways to get you to pay for news you get over the ...
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Disabling Cuts
Some folks fear they'll lose their ability to live at home under the guv's budget
by Heidi Walters
Last Friday afternoon, in John Anderson's modest, garden-lavish Eureka house, the cockatiels in the huge, covered, indoor-outdoor cage attached to his bedroom were up to their usual stunts. An outburst ...
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Updated Barbers Chart
Men's hairstyles in Humboldt
by Joel Mielke
Cartoon by Joel Mielke
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Not Equal Yet
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: Although I’m not a Certified Town Dandy or licensed attorney, I feel qualified (from decades of civil rights activism) to correct a common misconception that seemed to be expressed ...
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Bursting Balloons
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: I enjoyed your recent well-researched and -written cover article (“The McKay Tract,” May 21). However, perhaps you should check your spelling ... are you sure it isn’t The McKay ...
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Which Earth First!?
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: I just read the article on the McKay Tract, and one paragraph stood out among the rest — Trees Foundation funding for Earth First! Humboldt. In the lawsuit brought ...
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Pipe Dreams
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: The story by Heidi Walters in last week’s Journal does not reflect what I wanted to convey when I spoke with her on the phone (“Cult of the Pipe,” ...
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Food for Thought
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: While I have been inspired to write regarding several issues in the last couple of months, particularly after your comments about legalization and the call for open discussion (“Town ...
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Robbin’ Hoods
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: Thanks for your column of May 14 (“Town Dandy”)! In some of our “community” meetings here, I’ve listened to certain of our local growers smugly and proudly romanticize themselves ...


















