Publisher
/ By Judy Hodgson
(August 16, 2018)
On Nov. 9, 2016, like many Americans — a majority, in fact — I woke up with a throbbing headache and the realization that Donald Trump had hijacked the Republican...
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Editor
/ By Thadeus Greenson
(August 1, 2018)
In a few weeks, the fairgrounds in Ferndale will be awash with the smell of fry oil and children's gleeful screams as the 122nd annual Humboldt County Fair gets underway....
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Editor
/ By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill and Thadeus Greenson
(July 5, 2018)
In some ways, there's little different about last week's mass shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, that left five people dead and three injured. After all, it was the 154th such...
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Editor
/ By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill and Thadeus Greenson
(June 7, 2018)
We live in a media landscape that's far more complicated than any in human history. Here in Humboldt County — in addition to the litany of national and local...
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The Week in Weed
/ By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
(August 16, 2018)
Ask any cannabis farmer in Humboldt County who's navigating the labyrinth of paperwork, legalese and filing requirements of going legit — it ain't easy. Now imagine feeling your way through...
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The Week in Weed
/ By Thadeus Greenson
(August 9, 2018)
What to do with all that cannabis cash is a problem North Coast growers have faced for decades, leading to tales of six-figure sums buried under chicken coops, violent home...
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The Week in Weed
/ By Thadeus Greenson
(August 2, 2018)
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office Drug Enforcement Unit has been busy. Over the course of about a week, the unit reported serving a dozen search warrants in southern Humboldt County,...
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Seriously?
/ By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
(June 7, 2018)
Hello. Mark Zuckerberg here with a few announcements about our Facebook community. Call me Mark, though. Many humans call me Mark. Just kidding. About the humans. It's been a...
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Seriously?
/ By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
(May 31, 2018)
Let me start by saying I am here to listen and this is a safe space. I want you to know that and feel comfortable. Maybe you could start by...
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Views
/ By Charles Bean
(July 26, 2018)
In 1990, President George H. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), giving people with disabilities assurance they would no longer be excluded from society based on their disability....
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Views
/ By Bob Froehlich
(June 28, 2018)
A Google search of tribalism in America returns 664,000 results with headlines like "The New Tribalism and the Decline of the Nation State" and "Can Our Democracy Survive Tribalism?" Recently,...
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Views
/ By Jim Hight
(June 21, 2018)
When the young female gun control activist started talking earnestly with the burly firearms pro — a man who had earlier proclaimed that many gun laws don't make sense...
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Media Maven
/ By Marcy Burstiner
(June 7, 2018)
Hi, I'm Marcy Burstiner. My greatest responsibility is to serve my community. I am extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that I produce, but I'm concerned about the...
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Mailbox
(August 16, 2018)
Editor: I just wanted to write to wish Linda Stansberry the best in her new endeavors. Linda has great writing skills. From her early columns in the NCJ to her...
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Mailbox
(August 16, 2018)
Editor: My wife and I attended the opening of The Wizard of Oz at the Van Duzer Theatre at HSU on Aug. 3 ("Not in Kansas," Aug. 9). It is...
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Mailbox
(August 9, 2018)
Editor: Bravo to Thadeus Greenson for giving a human face and heart to HACHR ("Flashpoint," Aug. 2). They treat some of our most vulnerable outcast citizens with compassion and dignity....
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