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Posts published by “Paul Modic”

Field Notes From The Northcoast Outback

Superbowl Invitation This is an outrage, this is a crime against nature: We have Carl here, a big sports fan who has humbly just listened on the radio to every 49ers game this year, watches…

My Dirty Laundry

Well, that's a mistake I hope I never make again: I left a marking pen in a shirt pocket in the wash and now I have black ink stains on my clothes. What to do,…

An Old-Timer’s Guide To SSI

You are eligible to receive Supplemental Security Income, SSI payments (about $914 a month), if you are blind or disabled or over sixty-five, and have $2000 or less in the bank. (In this essay I’m…

New Year’s Resolutions

How much of a joke are New Years resolutions, actually there’re not really funny, have been thoroughly discredited, and exposed as a silly ritual which brings almost zero success or change to anyone, in other…

Pay Jackie Daniels!

Like an intrusive Jehovah’s witness or a cheap hooker I probe for those in need who qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) but are not yet on it. Many don’t know about their right to…

Starting The Humboldt Independent

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the beginning of “The Humboldt Independent” and brings back memories of the summer of ‘97, when a group of us got together to start it. After the “Redwood…

Senior Benefits: Low Income Housing

The HUD low-income senior housing complex in Garberville is a cute assortment of one bedroom cottages, between the hospital and the library, on the edge of town with views from benches out to the canyons…

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