If you lost Internet, land line or cell service during the big silence on Friday, your carrier might — just might — give you a little refund. Only you have to ask. Which means you have to pick and poke through one of those annoying phone trees, possibly for less than the cost of a […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Vulnerable
Part one in a series If a black hole could compress a lifetime, could mangle and crumple it down to a few essential remnants, they might look like these: A harmonica. A great-grandson’s photo. A painted, prayerful Jesus. A stuffed cat. These are what’s left of the wild days, the now unmentionable tattoos, the jobs, […]
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Highland Fling
If running around on the beach and throwing large objects sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday, Linda Stansberry has a game for you. Three games, actually. And you can wear kilts! Stones will be thrown, wars will be tugged, and cabers (sort of) will be tossed at the Second Annual Clam Beach […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
Firing Fireworks
Editor: Eureka City Manager David Tyson and the Eureka City Council can’t have it both ways (“Why Was Garr Fired,” June 30). Mr. Tyson fired Chief of Police Garr Nielson with the council’s blessing, but no one wants to talk about it, so they are calling it a confidential personnel decision. But Chief Nielson was officially […]
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Swift, Cold and Deadly
It’s happening again. The boats, motoring slowly, carefully along the Trinity River, their crews scanning rocky banks and swift eddies. The Coast Guard helicopter sweeping above. Parents or friends, sisters or sweethearts, waiting. It’s all happening again, and it is almost certain to end badly. As surely as June brings sunshine to the pine-studded slopes […]
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Are you “low-income”?
It’s complicated. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development calculates a “median family income” every year for every county in the United States. For Humboldt County, the 2011 MFI is $54,900. But that median changes depending on family size, so whether you are low income depends on how much money all the people living […]
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The Multifamily Myth
From Redway to McKinleyville, Humboldt county planners and an anxious public have been tying themselves in knots over tomorrow’s imaginary apartments. The zoning changes that would allow these apartments are supposed to satisfy the state of California, which decades ago settled on a curious idea: The more people live in one place, the cheaper it […]
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Student missing in Trinity River
Humboldt County sheriff’s officers were patrolling the Trinity River by boat on Monday looking for a Humboldt State foreign exchange student who was swept away Sunday afternoon. The student, 21-year-old Jian Kang from Renqiu, China, was wading in the Trinity River across from Tish Tang Creek Campground in Hoopa around 4:30 p.m. when he slipped […]
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A note from the editor
You’re probably looking at this web page because you expect to find something worthwhile here. Maybe it’s calendar listings or columns. Maybe it’s arts coverage or a deeper look at the news, explored in ways that give you something to think about. I’m not going to mess with that. As the new editor of the […]