June 2025

Human Rights Commission Urges Humboldt County Supervisors to Address Local Health Care Crisis

GUEST OPINION: Ack! I Just Learned About This Poisonous Plant That Grows All Over Humboldt and I Want You to Know About It!

LETTER to the EDITOR: I’m the One Who Fueled Rumors of Dolly Parton’s Friday Night Market Appearance, And I’m Sorry (But Her Stand-In Will Be There Again This Week!)

April 2025

GUEST OPINION: The SAVE Act Undermines Our Humboldt Community and Harms Eligible Voters

GUEST OPINION: As a Person Who Participated in the Demonstration Last Weekend, I Want to Thank the Eureka Police Department

March 2025

FRESH DROP: How Shopping at Farmers’ Markets Boosts Resiliency in Humboldt County’s Local Food System

GUEST OPINION: Arcata School Board President on the District’s Recent Layoff Notices

February 2025

GUEST OPINION: We Own Coast Central, So Let’s Pull It Out of Its Twilight Zone

GUEST OPINION: Goodbye to All That; Or, The Warts and All of What Internews Was, Or Tried to Be

December 2024

GUEST OPINION: The Newly Constructed Old Arcata Road Roundabout is Finally Complete and ‘It Is Marvelous’

October 2024

GUEST OPINION: To Fix Our County Roads or Not, That is the Question

GUEST OPINION: Humboldt Native Describes How Hurricane Helene Has Devastated Her New Hometown of Asheville, North Carolina

GUEST OPINION: Please Think Twice Before Voting For New Sales Tax Hikes That a Lot of People Can’t Afford

GUEST OPINION: Not So Fast!

GUEST OPINION: Being Pregnant in Humboldt County Just Got Scarier

GUEST OPINION: Take it From Someone Who Lives There — The Bulb-Outs and Bike Lanes on H and I Streets are Great

September 2024

GUEST OPINION: October 7 is Not a Good Day to Hold a Pro-Palestine Protest at Cal Poly Humboldt

June 2024

GUEST REQUEST: On Behalf of the Sight-Impaired, But Also Everyone, Could You Please Keep Your Sidewalks Clear?

January 2022

GUEST OPINION: Gateway Plan Does Housing the Right Way

December 2021

OP-ED: The Single Audit: What’s at Stake for Humboldt County

April 2021

GUEST OPINION: As Someone Who Has Two Active Lawsuits Against Caltrans, Let Me Say That Caltrans is Doing a Great Job With Last Chance Grade

March 2021

OP-ED: Salmon Need Cold Water to Live, and Trees Can Help

December 2020

OP-ED: Path to Reconciliation for Native People in California Begins With Truth and Healing

October 2020

OBITUARY: Melfred (Mike) R. Sweaney, 1951-2020

September 2020

OP-ED: ‘Faces You Can Trust’ Campaign Sends ‘Dangerous Message,’ Say McKinleyville and Northern Humboldt School Board Candidates

May 2020

OP-ED: Want to Help the Economy Recover? A Good First Step Would be to Make Our Cityscapes Friendlier for Outdoor Activities

December 2019

The Ridiculousness that is Humboldt State’s Uproar Over Wet Weather and Vaginas.

November 2019

Humboldt State Student Speaks Out About Recent Mass Shooting in Southern California

OP-ED: Adequately Mitigated, the Humboldt Wind Energy Project Would be an Urgently Needed Response to Climate Change, Says Friends of the Eel

OP-ED: Citing Danger to Birds, Three Conservation Groups Urge the County to Reject the Humboldt Wind Energy Project

OP-ED: The Terra-Gen Wind Power Project Will Give Humboldt Clean, Green Energy Independence

September 2019

Yes, My Belly Is Huge. No, You May Not Touch It.

OP-ED: Arcata’s New Lead For America Fellow Would Like to Introduce Herself and Tell You Why Humboldt Rules and Work With You to Make it Even Better

August 2019

OP-ED: Tearing Down Eureka Housing in Favor of Expanded Jail Parking is All Kinds of Dumb

July 2019

OP-ED: Yes, Removing the Klamath Hydropower Dams Would Immensely Improve Water Quality on the River, Says Environmental Scientist

June 2019

OBITUARY: Brian Konnersman, 1946-2019

May 2019

OP-ED: Hemp, Populism, and Humboldt

OP-ED: Wiyot Tribe Urges People to Cast a Wary Eye on Ridgetop Wind Power Project, Submit Comments on its Environmental Impact Report

April 2019

Christensen Deserved Better From Hypocritical Eureka High

LETTER from the PRESIDENT: Lost Coast Communications Stands For Locally Produced, Locally Owned Media

February 2019

Teams Like Western Sierra Will Never Understand the H-Dn Mentality

OP-ED: Disgraceful St. Mary’s Basketball Program Shows a Complete Lack of Integrity

January 2019

Ray Christie’s Lawyer Says: First They Came For Ray Christie, and You Did Not Speak Out Because You are a Vegetarian

HARDIN: Watching ‘Murder Mountain’

OP-ED: What the Netflix Series ‘Murder Mountain’ Got Wrong

November 2018

HARDIN: A Plant Can Break Your Heart

October 2018

HARDIN: Murder Mountain

HARDIN: The Cannabis Community and the Fog of War

HARDIN: Cannabis is Not Wine

September 2018

HARDIN: The Future of the Mateel