It’s the rare alternative candidate for President who can lose horribly and still attain third-party glory and national fame. And that’s the Spoiler. It doesn’t get any better than that for an independent or third-party candidate. Knowing he or she can’t win, he sneaks up in a tiny paper boat, rams a hole in the […]
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Man Up
There’s something kind of curious about the fact that the latest raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the atrociously acronymed “ICE” — came only a few days after Willie Nelson played Humboldt County. One day after Willie, KHUM’s Mike Dronkers was asking, “Isn’t there anything besides Willie Nelson that can bring the hippies and […]
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Zero Sum
Editor: The article“This Time for Sure” (Sept. 4), on the proposed Marina Center, notes that Home Depot Real Estate Manager Brian Cannard dismissed the belief that a new Home Depot will displace smaller stores, saying: “My sense is, they sharpen their pencils and figure out how to survive.” And Security National’s Randy Gans noted that […]
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Go Electric
Editor: I would like to add to the article about scooters (“Stay Upright,” Sept. 4). I have an electric scooter which I plug into the wall at the end of the ride. My scooter looks like a Vespa, carries two at the speed limit in town, and is quiet. I definitely echo the great training […]
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Fair Play For Fascists
Editor: Noelle Andrade writes “it is outrageous … for this publication to dedicate space to an openly racist political party candidate …” and demands “an explanation/apology” (“Mailbox,” Sept. 4). I have an explanation: Free Speech! For Andrade’s edification, free speech means free to all of us, not just those who agree with her. I’m opposed […]
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No Comment
There is a great American song that goes like this: “Once there was a silly old ram, thought he’d punch a hole in a dam. No one could make that ram, scram. He kept buttin’ that dam. Cause he had high hopes, he had high apple pie in the sky hopes. So any time you’re […]
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Haven’t Found It
Twenty-three months ago, politics in the city of Eureka looked quite a bit different than they do today. Back then, the county seat appeared just about to be making some sort of leap into full-fledged cityhood. There were issues, activists, interest groups, controversies, anguish … in a word, politics. Real, modern, municipal politics of a […]
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Forest For The Trees
Editor: Many thanks to the Journal and to writer Heidi Walters for the excellent cover story (“What Now Treesitter?”, Aug. 8). The photos, especially, showed the diversity of generations, including young treesitters, grandma, teacher and toddler, that make up the forest protection movement. These are indeed new times, when Big Timber and treesitters can sit […]
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Trust Not in MRC
Editor: Let’s hear it for all of the hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines that were crucial to the successes of Nanning Creek and Fern Gully over the past three to six years(“What Now Treesitter?”, Aug. 8). Most importantly, let’s remember the legacy of Humboldt’s Forest Defenders over the past two decades, and pay our […]
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Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Editor: First off, thanks for covering the story of the old-growth redwood being saved (“What Now Treesitter?”, Aug. 8). This is truly a reason to celebrate. I have just a few points of clarification about the article. First, I would be very surprised if any of the witnesses to the death of David “Gypsy” Chain […]
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Heil Bowles?
Editor: It is outrageous and vile that this publication would dedicate precious space to an openly racist political party candidate as if he were worthy of serious consideration (“Alt-Prez,” Aug. 28). You’re putting a candidate who desires the deportation of all non-whites and abortion of all mixed-race pregnancies on the same level as Cynthia McKinney […]
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The Other Candidates For President: Part III
Two things mark a third-party or independent candidacy for President: the desire to change politics as we know it and the inability to do so. The major minor parties are more effective at scuttling each other’s chances than rousting the two-headed troll that holds absolute power in this country. For example, you’d think that one […]