It looks as though eastern Libya will slide into the Mediterranean under the sheer weight of western journalists assembled in Benghazi and Misrata. A tsunami of breathless reports suggests that Misrata is enduring travails not…
Posts published in “Essays”
The life and death of Eureka's Chinatown
A minute ago I was anxiously taking pregnancy tests, hoping. Now my son is nearly five. People told me that would happen. Of course I had heard it all before. But a lot of that…
Doug Bosco was at the leading edge of a new generation of North Coast Democrats with pro-corporate, fiscal conservative economic policies--an extractive corporation's best friend.
She had been a ballerina. She played the violin. She was a painter. A sculptor. More things to more people than I can possibly mention here. She had a way of embellishing the mundane with…
A state cash flow crisis has been described as inevitable and one Humboldt County supervisor has related that county workers fear that the loss of their jobs is imminent. Suspension of state payments to counties…
With an ocean salmon fishing season set to open on April 2nd and fishery managers estimating that coastal waters currently boast more salmon than they have in five dismal years, it appears that the severe…