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California Renovation
Our government is broken. Here is a blueprint for fixing the mess that is California.
by Cosmo Garvin
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T.E.A.'d Off
The most immediately noticeable difference between the liberal dissidents of the Bush years and conservative protesters like the Humboldt TEA Party Patriots is their outfits: ...
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Here are the facts of the matter, as best as they can be ascertained. Michael Fennell, a member of the board of directors of the ...
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Shipping News
Humboldt County is an insanely political place, but off-year elections are not usually very exciting. You've got your school boards and your community services districts ...
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Bullets to Spare
Editor: Heidi Walters wrote a wonderful article on reintroducing condors (“Fixing the World,” July 16). The Bucksport employee’s salient remark that a lot of hunters ...
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My God
Editor: Surprisingly, I find myself writing my first letter to an editor – not about some hot-button political issue, but regarding the biological “Field Notes” ...
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Grovewashing
Editor: I write to applaud the publication of the cover story “Here, There, and Everywhere” (July 9). The issue of corporate “greenwash” and “localwash” is ...
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