If you have a 1990s Honda and like to spend time in central Arcata, it might be a good idea to make sure your locks are in really, really good shape. Someone, probably someone with a few altered keys, has been taking aging Hondas, driving them around for a day or two, and then leaving […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Coming Soon — Shorter Letters
Letters must comment on something — an article, column, review, letter, etc. — that has been published in a recent print edition of the Journal. Letters must be signed with the writer’s full name and city of residence. For author verification we also require — but don’t publish — the writer’s mailing address and daytime […]
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Final Votes In; No Big Surprises
Well, no one managed an electoral-death-defying reversal in those late ballots that the county elections office has been dutifully counting for the past two weeks. Estelle Fennell is still in, with 52.59 percent of the vote, Clif Clendenen is still out, with 46.94 percent, and nothing’s looking good in Humboldt for Norman Soloman’s congressional bid, […]
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OB-Gyn turmoil at St. Joe’s
St. Joseph Hospital’s gynecologic chief of staff has resigned in protest of a near-ban on sterilizations, according to two other gynecologists who attended a meeting about the new rules yesterday. The physician, Dr. Bill Weiderman, did not return a call seeking comment. [Update, 5:05 p.m.: Weiderman confirmed that he has resigned over the policy, but […]
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Votes coming in and …
Mail in voters so far like Rex Bohn, Mark Lovelace and Estelle Fennell for supervisor. The early report is on the county election’s office website. This batch of voters includes everyone whose ballot reached the county by Saturday, June 2. In recent elections, the Humboldt vote by mail turnout has been significant — around 70 […]
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An Old Town Melody
Late spring sunlight melts golden across one wall of Old Town Coffee & Chocolates, the milk steamer hisses its soft “screeeee,” and Jacob Wakeland edges into the side room with his guitar. It’s early May, and Wakeland has been talking himself into this for the last month. He’s so nervous he looks like he […]
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Early Deadlines
Because of the Memorial Day holiday, letters for next week’s Journal are due by 11:30 a.m. on Friday, May 25. (Election letters, in this last edition before the vote, cannot exceed 250 words.)
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We’re Not Stenographers
The North Coast Journal does slow journalism. (That’s not my coinage, but I love the image.) Like slow food, slow journalism is nurtured along, given some time, given some thought. Slow journalists seek out the highest quality ingredients — facts, not spin — and we arrange our words carefully, for maximum reading enjoyment, like a […]
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Your Dog is Dead
Guest post from Mark Dondero of Orleans, the land of abandoned dogs: This is an open letter to whoever abandoned a German shorthair pointer named Toby in Orleans, Calif., on St. Patrick’s Day, 2005. Your dog is dead. Actually, once you kicked him out of your car and he found his way to our house, […]
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Poverty Prophet
As if rooting out a bad habit, Daniel Suelo has given up money. Just quit having anything to do with it — or with barter or with organized charity. Instead of earning or spending, Suelo forages, dumpster dives and makes his home in a cave in Utah. “I would like to encourage people … to […]
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Dairy Diary
On a glistening green pasture at the far northern end of McKinleyville, goats leap and jostle as they run toward the man who is managing their sex lives. They are a soft creamy white, or a dozen combinations of brown or black edged with white. Many bear the telltale smear of chalk that is the […]
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Coors Blight
Pit free market economics against Humboldt’s soul-satisfying bay views and what happens? Even beer loses. Coors’ “Silver Bullet Aluminum Pint,” tossed out there in front of the eyeballs of southbound drivers on Highway 101, took the dubious top honor in the North Coast Journal’s Ugliest Billboard Contest this week, snagging 12 percent of the votes. […]