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From the time the Journal was founded in 1990 up until a few election cycles ago, we endorsed candidates and made recommendations on ballot measures. They were ultimately my endorsements as editor/publisher — and later as publisher when the two positions were split — with substantial input from the reporting staff. It’s not that I […]

I shared a quick lunch last week with Journal Editor Carrie Peyton Dahlberg. Carrie’s been on the job now for about five months and we are all still getting to know each other. The question that so many people are asking these days came up: Just what are the protestors, the Occupy Everywhere people, trying […]

I wrote an introduction to last year’s Journal Gift Guide that, in hindsight, was too damn cheerful. I said, although we were two years into this recession — really, things could have been much worse here in Humboldt County. Although there were new, visible tears in the social fabric of our community, most of us […]

The op-ed feature in the Times-Standard called “My Word” perhaps should be renamed. Something like “I’m-signing-my-name-to-this-but-I-didn’t-exactly-write-it.” I’m referring to a July 22 “My Word” signed by seven former Eureka City Council members and one former mayor. The eight expressed support for City Manager Dave Tyson. He has the right and the duty to hire and […]

Next week Carrie Peyton Dahlberg will take over as editor of the North Coast Journal. I’ll tell you a little more about Carrie below. But first I’d like to acknowledge and thank the entire Journal team for weathering the past several months of transition. In particular, I’d like to single out acting editor Ryan Burns […]

As you read in this column two weeks ago, we have a new editor, Tom Abate, who has been busy getting to know Humboldt County all over again. Tom was in Blue Lake last week, Fortuna over the weekend and we both spoke at the Rotary Club of Eureka on Monday. At a Journal staff […]