The Unknown Coast By Hank Sims We’re going to have more on this next week, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t once again note that the Mendocino Redwood Company has officially and (all but) incontrovertibly won. They will be the owners of the Pacific Lumber Co. by the time you read this, thanks to […]
Letters + Opinion
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The Way It Was
Editor: “Lazio’s Last Stand” (July 24) was well done and of great significance to the harbor issues of today. It is also the perfect, living example of why local governments should not get involved in economic development. They should leave that to the private sector, guided by the marketplace. Go down and look at the […]
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Cove Defender
Editor: Aaaah, Shelter Cove. Always a controversy of some sort. ("Mailbox," July 17.) I consider myself a native. I was born in Garberville but was raised from birth at the Cove. I have spent a fair portion of my life living there, and have also been a property owner more than once. My family has […]
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Beaten and Bloodied
It came in with a bang, but it’s ending with a whimper. That’s the story of the maximally important Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case, which has offered the county one of the greatest moments of crisis and opportunity in its recent history. The danger, back in January 2007, was that Houston sneak Charles Hurwitz and his […]
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Eastern Promises
Editor: I guess it all boils down to expectations. We really didn’t know what to expect. We knew we were getting a Chinese child between the age of 10 and 13. We knew that they were here for approximately nine days. We knew that the kids would go to school from 8:30 a.m. until noon […]
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WalMart Welcome
Editor: Please don’t perpetuate the myth that Arcata has locked out chain stores (“Small-Box”, July 10). It’s only formula restaurants that are limited to nine by the City Council. Borders, Crate & Barrel, the Gap — nay, even Home Depot — are free to establish themselves within the city of Arcata, without restriction. In fact, […]
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Dino Fight
Editor: In the July 10 issue, North Coast Journal publisher Judy Hodgson published a letter to advertisers, explaining why the Journal will have to raise its rates. Hodgson lamented that fierce competition between the two local dailies, the Eureka Reporterand the Times-Standard, is keeping local newspaper advertising rates artificially low. “Their owners have very deep […]
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Skills Pay Bills
Editor: Quite a while ago, I read in your paper about unscrupulous auctioneers selling, undisclosed, unbuildable lots in Shelter Cove to unsuspecting buyers, essentially ripping them off (“Buyer Beware!” April 22, 2004). I believe the article’s message was shame on the auctioneers and shame on the Humboldt County Tax Assessor. Now you’re helping steal from […]
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Bow Down to Bob
Editor: It has come to my attention that it is time to eat my words of yesteryear. I once wrote a letter complaining about Bob Doran as a journalist for your publication. Since then I have bumped into Mr. Doran at many events that any average journalist would not take the time to investigate. I […]
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Visit to America
There we were, a good portion of my extended family, just about ready to indulge the perennial Humboldt itch to get someplace sunny and warm, at least for a couple of weeks, at least every other year. And though I didn’t have any real illusions going in, I would say that the moment that illustrated […]
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Lock and Load
He went to the big armory in the sky a few years ago, but on the evening of June 26, here in Petrolia, I could almost hear the joyful salvos that my neighbor, Curly Wright, half a mile down Conklin Creek Road, would have loosed off into the hillside the other side of the Mattole. […]
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A Law Worth Copying
hwarzenegger signed an emergency bill early last month that got little notice here on the far North Coast. It fixed – in a hurry – the state law governing home winemaking. Someone discovered that the law as written actually was ridiculous: It prohibited competitions like many county fairs have held for decades because legally homemade […]