If it’s true, it is a huge loss. I hope another local paper is smart enough to take him and his brilliant column on.
Nothing on the NCJ blog.
Are they going mainstream in rough times? I guess they don’t want to feel relegated to the coffee house art and politics crowds, but that is where the local cultural vitality lives. Truly, the Town Dandy is a unique and brilliant column – I always turned there first, even before the letters to editor. This is very depressing.

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February 4, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Joe Blow
Remember what I said about “what goes around ALWAYS comes around”?
February 4, 2011 at 6:21 pm
K at the bookstore
http://posting.altweeklies.com/aan/sf-chronicle-staffer-resigns-to-lead-north-coast-journal/Article?oid=3644170
Michael Welch just posted that link over on FB; I’m sorry that I don’t know how to make a live link out of it, but it does have info on the changes at the NCJ.
February 4, 2011 at 6:22 pm
K at the bookstore
Oh, gosh. Clever internet that makes its own links.
I don’t know if things have changed over the week though, in terms of Sims staying on.
February 4, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Eric Kirk
Thanks Kathy. That’s old news.
February 4, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Random Guy
” I guess they don’t want to feel relegated to the coffee house art and politics crowds, but that is where the local cultural vitality lives. ”
I agree, and long live our cultural vitality!
February 4, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Ernie's Place
I wish Hank well. Anybody married to a girl from Branscomb California can’t be all bad.
I will say that he made me think. I have to begrudgingly admire anybody that can do that.
February 4, 2011 at 10:29 pm
Kym Kemp
Every one’s entitled to a mistake but Abate’s interview at KSLG was appalling. I’m stunned that Hank would feel he had to leave to make way for someone so self-involved. I can’t imagine the Journal without Hank’s wit and humor and his excellent writing.
February 5, 2011 at 12:29 am
Eric Kirk
I just listened to the remixes at the Herald.
Strange.
http://humboldtherald.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/abate-interview-the-movie/
February 5, 2011 at 9:32 am
Anonymous
So Eric. You take part in the remixes to humiliate the man? I am sure he has realized how Humboldt has changed since he left it years ago. And that change is NOT for the good.
February 5, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Eric Kirk
I can’t access the original interview. Was it any better than the remixes?
February 5, 2011 at 11:31 pm
skippy
The original interview is here.