Unlike Mike
Congressman Mike Thompson is unbeatable. But that doesn’t stop people from trying.
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Unlike Mike
“How happy it would make us to see Bush and Cheney behind bars!” So said Mitch Clogg, Democratic candidate for Congress, on KMUD radio on Sunday. And if anyone within distance of the radio signal objected to the notion, they did not bother to make their objection heard. Clogg was one of three candidates who…
Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park Update
Residents of the 18 units of the Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park on the territory of the Blue Lake Rancheria received letters yesterday from the rancheria announcing that there may be potential buyers for their trailers. Home owner Susie Holderman talked to Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Administrator Arla Ramsey this morning and, though interactions with the…
Celebrity Chaos
We’ll have more on last night in next week’s paper. How would you describe it in one word? Inspirational? Insanity? The word we want to use starts with “cluster…” and rhymes with “duck.” But this is a family blog. For now, we’ll just note that Darsh’s write-up over at the M-Town blog rang pretty true.…
Waiting for Bill
… a.k.a “Final Final Final Clinton Details.” It probably goes without saying, but you shouldn’t expect Bill Clinton to enter Redwood Acres at 6:30 p.m. on the dot tonight, no matter what advance folk are saying. Clinton has three scheduled stops today . He’s in Oakland this morning, Napa this afternoon and Eureka in the…
‘The Great Redwood Forest’
A new proposal for the future of Pacific Lumber was unveiled yesterday by The Nature Conservancy, the Save-the-Redwoods League, Bank of America and other organizations, including a local group that includes environmental activists Mark Lovelace and David Simpson. The consortium appears to be consulting with the holders of Pacific Lumber’s principal debtors, the owners of…
Final Final Clinton Details
It’ll be at Redwood Acres, in the Home Arts building, at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday, Jan. 8). Doors open at either 4:30 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. (Conflicting reports.) You’d better be there on time, we’d guess. Keep it tuned to the Blogthing for more details. UPDATE, WEDNESDAY 12:30 p.m.: See here.
Disambiguation
How to tell a visiting Secret Service agent from a Humboldt County resident, with help from Flickr user Chuck Patch : It’s not as difficult as you might imagine. On the left: Secret Service agent. On the right: Humboldt County resident. Let’s try another one, this time with an assist from Dave Whelan : Did…
Teen Shot in Eureka
From the EPD: On 1/15/07 at about 1:25 am the Eureka Police Department received a report that a 16-year-old male gunshot victim had arrived at the St Joseph Hospital Emergency Room. Officers contacted the victim who explained that unknown suspects had attempted to rob him on Pine Street near Lincoln School. During the course of…
Rumor of the Week
Says a for-the-moment unidentified but reputable source: All- Keep your eyes and ears open, BILL CLINTON is tentatively scheduled to fly up to Eureka on Wed. 1/15 landing around noon and traveling either to HSU or Stanton’s restaurant. We need to bring lots of people up to the airport to greet him and then follow…
Cool, Clear Water
Making art is more about what you do with your eyes than what you do with your hands. I came to the conclusion some years ago, and that theory has been confirmed over and over again in my conversations with painters. “What I get out of painting is looking,” says Judy Evenson. “I see things…
Music for a Cold Winter Night
They don’t call themselves Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band because they have a lot of members, it’s just a trio, but the sound they make — raw, bold blues played on acoustic instruments — is big and loud as can be. It’s also a true family band: The right Reverend (a big man, by the…
Teen scenes
Previews Just in time for a possible Academy Awards nomination, Atonement opens locally Friday, Jan. 11. Based on the fine 2001 novel by Ian McEwan, Atonement stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy as young lovers whose relationship is torn asunder by the false accusations of a younger sister (played by Saoirse Ronan at age 13,…
The Shady Lives of Ferns
A human female is diploid, having paired maternal and paternal chromosomes. She is born with over a million haploid eggs with unpaired chromosomes. Each egg has the potential of being fertilized by a haploid sperm. A fern’s life cycle is more complex. It alternates generations between a large diploid “sporophyte” plant that produces haploid spores and a small haploid “gametophyte” plant, grown…
Books of 2007
by Various Authors Here are my favorites of the year. I don’t claim they’re the best, because I obviously can’t read everything. (I do try, though.) Potentially worthy candidates such as Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke and Ben Ratliff’s new book on John Coltrane remain on my shelf unread to taunt me into the new…
Classical Recordings of 2007
by Various Artists Mahler: Symphony No. 9 —Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra: Daniel Barenboim, conductor. Barenboim has been dogged by accusations of superficiality as an interpreter. I cannot imagine anyone pinning that label on this glorious, blazing performance. Barenboim and this superb orchestra completely get this score, in full sync with the deep, even frightening passion of…
Coffee House Cat
(Written May 2006, at Finnish Country Sauna and…
The Humboldt Answer
I’ve lived in Humboldt County for seven years, and it’s taken me all this time to adopt the standard Lost Coast response to the question, “What do you do?” Where I come from — and this basically applies to anywhere south of Garberville, north of Orick or east of Willow Creek — everybody has an…
Election time
Last Thursday night, inside the slightly musty old hall of the Labor Temple in Eureka, about a dozen employees from Northcoast Children’s Services gathered at a long table with a couple of representatives from the California Federation of Teachers. The reps had driven up that day from San Francisco through a winter storm that cleared…
Redwood U.
As we speak, all around the country various high-powered financial players and their consultants and their attorneys are busy drawing up plans for the next phase of the Pacific Lumber Co.’s 150-year history. Judge Richard S. Schmidt, who has overseen the company’s year-long bankruptcy case, last month decreed that by the end of the month…
Pasta al Burro e Parmigiano
I open my eyes, smell onion cooking in olive oil and immediately know two things: I am awake and it is Sunday morning. It is the day and time when my mother makes the tomato and meat sauce that she will then use to season pasta for several days. I know this sounds like a…
