This story was originally published by CalMatters. School closures are an incendiary issue in nearly every corner of California, as enrollment declines and expenses climb. The topic has sparked parent ...

Throughout various professional and civic roles, Mary Burke has shown that she knows how to bring people together to improve our environment and our communities. One of her recent accomplishments in ...

Editor: Kudos to Zia Gabriel Coburn, the sixth grader whose poem, “Beginning,” is in this week’s North Coast Journal (Mailbox, April 16). I shared it in the Friday Poets group, and it was especially ...

Editor: OK, JFC’s take on AI (“AI for the Planet,” April 16) is not only her usual creative version using cultural markers like no one else can. She even avoids the expected gendering of a person ...

And why isn’t twelve “two-teen”? Why do bagels come in dozens? Why are there two sets of 12 hours in a day? And why 12 inches to the foot? Like much of northern Europe, England once had a hybrid ...

If you are like me, you think space is neat.  As a child, I devoured documentaries about Apollo. Everyone knows, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” (Neil Armstrong wrote that ...

NORMAL boasts more than enough bona fides to excite a certain kind of audience (me): a script by creator of John Wick (2014) Derek Kolstad, again collaborating with star Bob Odenkirk (Nobody, 2021); ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California scored a legal victory Monday ...

The annual Green Issue is here with nesting news as the cohort of condors released into the wild moves into the family ...

Editor: The thought of Mary Burke as our next Fifth District supervisor is so reassuring to me. As a 26-year McKinleyville resident and neighbor of Mary’s for much of that time, I’m aware of her long ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The latest clash between California and ...

Beginning is the color of a red poppy It tastes like a fresh papaya coated with a ripe lime It lives in an ending, patiently waiting its turn A beginning is a wave, rolling, like an uncontrollable ...