Grab Your Pitchfork
Is his work “just a theory”? Will home prices fall by exactly 40 percent? “I’ll tell you right now — I’m sure I’ll be wrong, and I’m sure no one else will get it precisely right either,” Eschker said Tuesday. But anyone who doubts his powers of prognostication might want to look in the Journal archives — Oct. 13, 2005, to be precise — for a story titled “The end of the boom?” In it, Eschker predicted that the then-hot Humboldt housing market was just about to peak. And peak it did.
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44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
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Woodside Preschool's Rummage/Bake Sale
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Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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TWO Comments
Comment / By Quick Question / Today, 11:30 a.m.
Did I miss Larry O. Doss’ full page ads apologizing for his attack on Mr. Eschker’s data-based analysis now that the real estate markets have indeed collapsed?
Comment / By too little too late / Today, 12:05 p.m.
I didn’t miss that Larry O. Doss still slings big real estate and doesn’t want to tarnish his name.
“Sorry I was milking everybody for every cent I could squeeze out of them back then! My bad! Here’s my card…”