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Editorial: No next season

Editorial: No next season

A sporting life can be rewarding and cruel. Extreme ups and downs result from thrilling victories and gut-wrenching defeats. Athletes chase one scenario and try to avoid the other, while doing everything they can to pursue their dreams.
Cartoon: Humboldt strong

Cartoon: Humboldt strong

Letter: Process resources at home

Letter: Process resources at home

With all the jingoism over Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion creating jobs, and almost all of it temporary work, it’s conspicuous how there’s no mention of creating actual long-term employment by processing enough of our own crude to, at the very le
Viewpoint: Opioid crisis requires more awareness

Viewpoint: Opioid crisis requires more awareness

Current marijuana legalization should be postponed until fentanyl-related deaths no longer occur. It is in bad taste to talk about smoking pot during a fentanyl crisis and implies the opioid deaths are meaningless or self-afflicted.
Cartoon: Toad Road

Cartoon: Toad Road

What do you think of this week's cartoon? Have you read the article? For the love of toads
Editorial: Simplifying life

Editorial: Simplifying life

The Ventilly family featured on page eight of this issue is just one example of families choosing to downsize in order to either bide time until a real estate opportunity arises, save money and/or pay down debt or simplify their lives.
Letter: Expansion less than logical

Letter: Expansion less than logical

Earth-friendly kudos to all of the “supporters” against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion [“Climate group rallies,” March 28].
Viewpoint: Coastal by nature?

Viewpoint: Coastal by nature?

Nobody is objecting to upgrading the water treatment plant [“Letters: New system necessary,” March 14, “Letters: Wastewater aesthetics a concern,” March 21].
Counterpoint: Take our forests back

Counterpoint: Take our forests back

News that the local Catalyst Paper Corporation paper mill is facing potentially fatal anti-dumping duties courtesy of our trade “partner,” the United States, is discouraging.
Viewpoint: Is spring break really a ‘break’ for families?

Viewpoint: Is spring break really a ‘break’ for families?

Spring break is now in full swing as students enjoy their second week off school. But whether this second week is a time of refreshment or a stress-filled scramble for extra child care depends very much on perspective.