Here’s one that might be of interest to Eureka voters: Costco has managed to increase profits at the very same time that its top executive is calling for a higher minimum wage, the Huffington Post is reporting. Paying good money and offering benefits like health insurance can reduce turnover and build strong businesses, CEO Craig […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Good Cops Aren’t Afraid of Cameras
When I last taught news writing, I asked the class to read about a bust in a drug-plagued San Francisco hotel. In their police report, officers wrote that they had knocked and announced their presence before entering. But a videotape showed they had just barged in. For beginning journalists, it was a lesson in skepticism. […]
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Toxins in Humboldt
North Coast Journal Editor Carrie Peyton Dahlberg asked Dr. Cherrie Andersen, an obstetrician and gynecologist who practices in Eureka, to give us some of her thoughts on environmental risks during pregnancy. North Coast Journal: What are some of the most common environmental health threats to pregnant women in Humboldt? Dr. Cherrie Andersen: Humboldt’s traditional […]
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Tough on Prayer?
The U.S. Supreme Court has resolved just how much prayer is OK at government meetings, but California’s law is a fresh and different battleground, according to a lawyer suing Eureka over city-backed religiosity. So yes, the U.S. president can have a prayer breakfast if he wants, but mayor Frank Jager? Well, attorney Peter Martin said […]
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Drinks at Sunset
There she is, shaking up something yummy in a photo in February’s Sunset magazine (click it to enlarge): Amy Stewart, Drunken Botanist extraordinaire, best-selling author, Eureka resident and of course, NCJ columnist. Stewart’s short piece on her cocktail garden comes with scrumptious photos and one of her intoxicating recipes. Plenty more will be available in […]
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Cop Wants Arcata to Pay
Update Jan. 22: Officer Stonebarger has been on paid medical leave from the city of Arcata since Aug. 27, Police Chief Tom Chapman said today. The leave has stretched to nearly five months so far, and according to the disciplinary records it began the same day that the officer had been scheduled to meet with […]
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Trying Again on Wave Energy
The latest West Coast foray into wave energy is coming from Newport, Ore.. That’s where Oregon State University’s (take a deep breath) Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center plans a big, “utility scale” test site that will be connected to the electric grid. The thing will be five miles offshore, and will zing its electricity […]
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Next, a Food Truck?
Update, Jan. 14: The federal goverment will pay just over $1 million a year, to start, to lease its new space at the Airport Business Park, according to the U.S. General Services Administration. The 20-year lease starts at $46.73 per rentable square foot, a rate that will increase over time along with the Consumer Price […]
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The Gun Issue
It’s hard to imagine what a schoolroom floor would look like, littered with the bodies of 6- and 7-year-olds. It’s hard not to imagine it, to be unable to close your eyes against it. And so, imagining or not imagining, we’re talking about guns again. What should we outlaw, or who should we arm? Congress […]
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Can We Ban Assault Guns?
In Sacramento this year, state legislators will be trying — again — to craft laws that might truly limit access to the guns of mass slaughter, instead of just inspiring fresh bouts of creativity from gun makers. In Washington, California’s senior senator will ask Congress — again — to try to ban assault weapons, this […]
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Bad Guys with Guns
Every month, the state of California sends police departments and county sheriffs all over the state a list of the people who just about everybody — including the NRA — agrees shouldn’t have guns. These are people who once did paperwork with the state indicating they have at least one gun. Then, later, they […]
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More Time for Klamath Deal
As expected, the 40-plus government agencies, counties, tribes and environmental and farming groups that hashed out a pact to divvy up water supplies and remove four dams along the Klamath River have re-upped for another two years, extending the deadline of their accord to the end of 2014. That gives Congress two more years to […]