Mail in voters so far like Rex Bohn, Mark Lovelace and Estelle Fennell for supervisor. The early report is on the county election’s office website. This batch of voters includes everyone whose ballot reached the county by Saturday, June 2. In recent elections, the Humboldt vote by mail turnout has been significant — around 70 percent last November, when turnout was very low, and close to 50 percent during the last presidential race. So this is a pretty healthy chunk of early opinion.
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A “hypothetical” question for the publishers and editors of the North Coast Journal…what would your reaction be to discovering a regular news contributor been offered and recieved monetary compensation for publishing URL’s in the paper and on the website? Would there be a difference in your reaction if it were politically or commercially motivated?
You’re gonna need to be way less cryptic than that if you expect an answer, NSH. What exactly are you talking about?
The question isn’t cryptic, Ryan. What would your boss’ reactions be upon discovering URL fishing was going on within a regular contributor’s “news”? It’s no less cryptic than asking what the reaction would be if it was discovered an employee was stealing from the office.
The question isn’t cryptic, Ryan. For instance, what would your boss say upon discovering that secret electrical pulses can penetrate tin foil hats?