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june 11, 2009
Dear Mr. CEO
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: As an individual who spent a number of years working as an LVN in skilled nursing facilities in both Santa Cruz and Redding, I found the article “Immediate Jeopardy” ...
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Taking It in the Teeth
Budget crisis decimates dental care options for the poor
by Carol Harrison
Wayne Atkins is in a race: against cancer and the California budget. The state's decision to eliminate adult dental care and eight other "optional" benefits from the Medi-Cal program effective ...
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Eye of the Beholder
by Heidi Walters
An observer at the most recent College of the Redwoods Board of Trustees meeting, on June 2, reported afterward that he'd witnessed a troubling thing. During the public comment period, ...
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Double Down
by Heidi Walters
On April 3, the Big Lagoon Rancheria filed a complaint in United States District Court, Northern District, against the State of California. The suit tries to force the state to ...
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Revolt!
by Hank Sims
Your correspondent has a hard time remembering any Times-Standard op-ed so informative and entertaining as the one published Tuesday, on the eve of the big public hearing on election reform ...
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Outlaw Biker Wardrobe
by Joel Mielke
Cartoon by Joel Mielke
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Money for News
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: In her recent column (“For What It’s Worth”), media maven Marcy Burstiner laments the fact that most people “won’t pay any price” for online news (“Media Maven,” June 4). ...
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Clarification
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: Assuming there was a gruesome pun seems terribly convenient (see “Mailbox,” May 28). None was intended. To those offended, I do offer my apologies. Mike Sloyer, Willow Creek
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Critic Beats Film
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: Thank heavens Charlie Myers is back at “Filmland.” Now if there were only some good movies for him to review ... Betty Briggs, Ferndale
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Light Greens
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: It always amazes me how the timber industry learns eco-speak, renames itself, showers in greenwash and tries to make a virtue of necessity (“The McKay Tract,” May 21). As ...



















