Hank Sims, editor of the Northcoast Journal--TheTown Dandy or Town Dandruff?

Hank Sims is another one of our local Progressive political bullshit artists seemingly without an ounce of honor in his professional work. Using his position as editor of the Northcoast Journal he takes pot shots at most anyone who hits the local news and has something to say to the community that Hank doesn't agree with. As editor of a local community paper Hank feels it's his personal right and political duty to squelch other community voices whose politics he doesn't like. Hank won't let this activist publish anything in the NCJ, unlike his predecessors who thought maybe the NCJ should represent the community and not just the editor's point of view. If censorship of political opponent's words isn't applicable, Hank resorts to backhanded slander bombs such as he lobbed at Charles Ollivier in the latest NCJ re Ollivier's support for port and railway development; "...an economic development strategy (that) is impossible bordering on ludicrous."

Bill Roddy, when he was editor of SoHum's Life and Times weekly was also a notorious egotist at the helm of his rag. For years the Life and Times published focus issues on community leaders and not once did he give any prominent environmental activists recognition. Perhaps it goes with the territory when inflated egos get power over community media venues but it still sad to see in our local news providers and still a complete disservice to the community's knowledge base and news.