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Posts published by “Hank Sims”

Federal Prosecutors, ‘Marijuana Stores’ & Large Grows

So apparently it’s back to Prohibition now. Or that’s at least what the four California US Attorneys, gathered in Sacramento, wished to convey in a joint press conference in Sacramento this last Friday morning. While…

Gov. Brown & Mountain Lions

It’s not quite up there with Schwarzenegger’s celebrated “fuck you” to Tom Ammiano, but Gov. Jerry Brown gets off a halfway decent zinger in a signing statement attached to his approval of Senate Bill 769,…

Net Effects

One of the many dubious perks of living in Humboldt County — as it must be in places like New Orleans or Nome, Alaska — is that we regularly get to witness beautiful brute nature…

The Train Geeks Return

You know what I just remembered? It’s nearly 2011! And do you know what that means? It means that the North Coast Railroad Authority is just a few short months away from relaunching railroad freight…

More Of The Usual

For the last few weeks, newspapers around the North Coast have been calling on State Senator Pat Wiggins to resign her office. The worst of them adopt a pleading sort of tone. First they fire…

Our Fathers

It's still hard for some locals to accept that 150 years ago — five generations, a historical blip — Hum­boldt County was controlled by genocidaires. Our illus­trious forefathers, the settlers of this county, were, in…

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