Editor’s Note: The following is a column by Journal Publisher Judy Hodgson that will appear in this week’s print edition, which hits streets tomorrow. Don’t miss Marcy Burstiner’s “Media Maven” column in this week’s print edition. Real and potential Brown Act violations are popping up with such frequency now, it’s like a game of Whack-A-Mole. Did […]
Judy Hodgson
Judy Hodgson is a co-founder of the North Coast Journal.
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Holiday Gift Guide
On the pages of this week’s Journal — and for the next four weeks — you will find our annual Gift Guide catalog full of clever and innovative offerings from local retailers. You know the drill: Shopping at local indie stores increases the economic impact by recycling dollars, strengthens communities (meet your neighbors, solve problems), […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
Transition
In June of this year, staff writer Ryan Burns was promoted to news editor and Jennifer Fumiko Cahill joined the editorial team as arts and features editor. (Veteran Arts and Entertainment Editor Bob Doran suffered a stroke in May and is still recovering.) Both Ryan and Jenn have done a wonderful job since Journal Editor […]
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Bigger, Better Best Of
Welcome to the Best Of Humboldt 2013. We’ve made some changes this year — and more are on the way for 2014. In the past, the Journal‘s editorial department was solely in charge of coming up with questions to ask readers. This year the entire staff participated, plus we borrowed ideas from a few of […]
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Straw-vote Gang of Four
Forget it, Humboldt County. Since Estelle Fennell and Rex Bohn were seated on the Board of Supervisors last year, joining Virginia Bass and Ryan Sundberg — all elected with the help of the same deep pockets of money — the direction of good planning and land use in this county has gone from first-gear forward […]
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Bay Trail Update No. 8
“You must be ecstatic,” said my friend as I sat down for lunch last Friday. It was the day after the California Coastal Commission approved Caltrans’ Eureka-Arcata Route 101 Corridor Improvement Project — 13 years in the making. Yes, I am. And so are a few hundred other people I know and — exponentially — […]
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Bay Trail Update No. 7
What a wild roller coaster ride this past week for those of us who support the Bay Trail, a proposed bicycle-and-pedestrian path along the bay between Arcata and Eureka. First, the Arcata City Council changed its position on the Caltrans 101 Safety Corridor Project, which comes before the California Coastal Commission in Eureka Thursday, from […]
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Boards Behaving Badly
Maybe the Journal should start an ongoing feature called “Boards Behaving Badly.” I don’t get it. These public servants are duly elected and have the backing of the majority of their constituents. Then once in office, they fall prey to taking the easy path of making tough or uncomfortable decisions, first behind closed doors, and […]
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Leadership Seriously Lacking
My mom used to say, “Judy Ann, if you can’t say anything nice about someone … .” You know the end of that sentence. I hope she will forgive me. I landed my first real job when I was 15. I fried taquitos and made banana splits in El Monte, Calif. My first professional job […]
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Bay [T]rail Update No. 6
Publisher note: If I had my reporter’s hat on, I could tell you a lot of behind-the-scenes drama and painfully slow progress on the Bay Trail, the link in the California Coastal Trail between Eureka and Arcata. But I can’t. I’m a Bay [T]rail Advocate — one of the lobbyists. From the beginning of my […]
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Political Reality 2013
We often read in news articles that so-and-so couldn’t be reached for comment. Well, sometimes a reporter just doesn’t try very hard. Sometimes we’re even glad when our phone calls aren’t returned, truth be told. But I want Journal readers to know how hard we tried to get an interview with our new Humboldt […]
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Journal a Winner
The California Newspaper Publishers Association has honored the North Coast Journal for award-winning work in eight categories this year, ranging from investigative reporting to feature writing, from cartooning to graphic illustration. We just got the CNPA awards notice in the mail late last week, and there are lots of congratulations to go around in this […]