The penultimate day of the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale is the best day, Ladies’ Hat Day. As the name suggests, women in hats abound — ranging from the simple imitations of Christine McVie to resplendent facsimiles of Eliza Doolittle’s chapeau at the Embassy Ball. There are a number of contests and a parade. It’s […]
County Fair
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Fair Factor
You can smell the fryers from the parking lot as you stumble through the lumpy pasture toward the whirring rides and tinny pop music playing on the other side of the turnstiles. Once inside the Humboldt County Fair, the maze of traveling food stands and the barrage of signs for jumbo and beer battered everything […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
International Obligations
Could the U.S. be breaking United Nations conventions as pot becomes more and more legal? That’s a question raised in a December report by the RAND Corporation’s Drug Policy Research Center. The nonpartisan group wrote that the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board has been critical of both the U.S. and Uruguay for slackening marijuana laws […]