The paper’s Web site — www.northcoastjournal.com — has been down almost all day, and now it looks like it’s gonna roll right on into tomorrow. The people at Morse Media say that this is due to problems at the datacenter facility from which Morse rents space. That’s Silicon Valley Web Hosting — see their ultrahelpful […]
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Gans Responds
Yesterday Security National’s Randy Gans wrote a letter in response to last week’s story, “Arkley v. Humboldt.” Unfortunately the letter arrived too late to make it into this week’s paper, but we’ll put it up here and run it next week: Editor, Your article “Arkley .v. Humboldt” (November 26, 2008) implies that our companies that […]
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Journal Kills at CNPA
Booyakasha! Six first-place, two second-place awards — the latter only in categories where we were competing against ourselves. We beat the San Francisco Business Times in business reporting. Our production team got first place for layout and design, and that was in a category without circulation classes. In other words, this year we are officially […]
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SPJ on the Hans Peters Story
The Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists, this month took notice of a story that appeared in the Journal earlier in the year. In “News Gems,” a regular Quill feature, the magazine commended “Nobody’s Fault,” the story of the short, tragic life of Hoopa youth James Lee “Hans” Peters. The story was […]
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Sked for the Hoedown
We’re going to be streaming audio and video from the Humboldt Hoedown over at the mothership — http://www.northcoastjournal.com — all day tomorrow. This is going to be a truly awesome show, made more awesome still by the fact that the broadband connection is supposed to be superfat and ultrareliable. If you’re going to be home […]
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Could You Be More Specific?
Once in a while a rabid Journal-hater’s interior walls will burst, and pent-up passions come burbling out in a frothing, acrid foam. What can sometimes be disappointing, in such a case, is lack of detail. What we need from you is specifics. What, in particular, set you off? What was the proverbial back-breaking straw? Having […]
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Live Folk! And More!
It’ll be up and running on northcoastjournal.com at 7:30 p.m. — “Flying Fingers” night at the Humboldt Folklife Festival! This’ll be the first of four consecutive nights of live music from the fest, streamed to your home. Then, on Saturday — all-day folk bonanza! If you read this before 7:30, go on and over now […]
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Order Up!
A quarter of crow First of all, it must be said: Massive props to our new info-overlord, Heraldo , for scooping everyone with the tip that a massive federal drug bust was coming to town this week. Respect is due. However, let me take a moment to play the boring old-school pedant, here. A massive […]
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Reminder: Tim Robbins!
Reminder: If you can’t make it out to Blue Lake for the kick-off of the Mad River Festival tonight, you can catch some of the opening events over at the mothership: northcoastjournal.com . Starting at 7:30 p.m., actor Tim Robbins and his Actors’ Gang troupe will be awarded the “Prize of Hope” — an event, […]
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Test-Driving Barack’s Chili
Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama’s recipe for chili has been the #1 story on northcoastjournal.com almost from the moment it was slapped up there. Now Ian Froeb, “Gut Check” columnist for our sister paper in St. Louie, answers the question we’ve all been asking ourselves: Can the man make a decent pot of chili? Click […]
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Ta-da!
The North Coast Journal reaches a milestone today. After months — years — of heartbreak, we are pleased to launch a new version of our website. The old site served us faithfully for just about 10 years, I believe, and it was long past time to let the old trooper enjoy its dotage. Beneath its […]