With a Rural Yell
As the state teeters on the brink, a local research center gives overlooked Californians a voice
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With a Rural Yell
It has become the embittered whine of the Obama era — the half-sarcastic, half-genuine plea of jealous sad sacks nationwide: “Where’s my bailout?” Those who’ve been suddenly knocked a few rungs down the capitalism ladder are looking around dumbfounded, wondering what the hell happened. But here on the Redwood Coast, there have long been struggling…
EKA/ARC Recruiting Measures Overturned
EKA/ARC Recruiting Measures Overturned: The Associated Press reports that Judge Saundra Armstrong has overturned the two citizens’ initiatives that last year banned military recruiters from targeting
Programming Note
hours. John Matthews of KSLG often has a strange and eclectic guest list — who can forget his quasi-romantic tete-a-tetes with Ann Coulter? — but this morning trumps all. 8:40 AM Tami Farrell, who became Miss California USA last week when Donald Trump dumped Carrie Prejean, promises to avoid controversy during the< five months of…
Legalize it
Legalize it: Clearly the Associated Press has been reading our stories. Step off, AP. Actually, there’s some good stuff in here, like this Dennis Kucinich quote on the pot-sampling pasts of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama: Apparently that didn’t stop them from achieving their goals in life. … We need to come at this from…
Blue Lake in the Chron
Blue Lake in the Chron: Today’s SF Chronicle highlights highlights the lake-less hamlet as travel destination, just in time for the opening of the huge new casino hotel. And props to Dell’Arte:: The company’s school offers the only Master of Fine Arts program in physical theater and has provided one-third of the featured clowns in…
Starving Weirdos on the BBC
coop.Starving Weirdos on the BBC: The local floorcore stars were featured on a recent BBC Radio 3 program, Late Junction. It’s streamed online, but you must listen now, it’s only up for a few more
Humboldters in the News: Lonny Grafman on the Waterpod
Humboldters in the News: Lonny Grafman on the Waterpod: HSU dude Lonny Gafman interviewed about the Waterpod, a vessel docked in New York City that’s outfitted like something from Waterworld to show off various sustainability systems. Gafman’s students from HSU’s Environmental Resources Engineering Dept. designed 11 greenish projects for the Waterpod, including rainwater catchment and…
European Election Dispatch
From NCJ Publisher Judy Hodgson, writing in France. Please note that a whole lot has changed in Iran since this report was penned. —– “Are you voting, too, in the U.S. — en les Etats Unis?” we were asked more than once. Well, no. We voted last November. Obama, remember? “Oui, but this is everyone…
Dear Mr. CEO
Editor: As an individual who spent a number of years working as an LVN in skilled nursing facilities in both Santa Cruz and Redding, I found the article “Immediate Jeopardy” to be a revelation, and had difficulty keeping my angry feelings in check (June 4). I find it appalling that we, as a society, cannot…
Our Amazing Eyes
Human eyesight is a wondrous mechanism. On the one hand, we can see an object whose light takes over 2 million years to reach us (M31, the Andromeda galaxy, twin to our own Milky Way). On the other, we can see something a mere molecule thick! Want to try to guess how, before reading on?…
Money for News
Editor: In her recent column (“For What It’s Worth”), media maven Marcy Burstiner laments the fact that most people “won’t pay any price” for online news (“Media Maven,” June 4). This is often given as the explanation for the dismal state of the newspaper industry. Whether Ms. Burstiner or I will or won’t pay for…
Garden Tour Time!
The Humboldt Botanical Gardens Foundation has brought the garden tour back this summer, and I’m glad to see it return after taking a hiatus last year. There are other changes afoot for the organization, but more about that in a minute. First, the gardens. The focus this year is on Eureka and Bayside, with 13…
Clarification
Editor: Assuming there was a gruesome pun seems terribly convenient (see “Mailbox,” May 28). None was intended. To those offended, I do offer my apologies. Mike Sloyer, Willow Creek
Requiem for a Paper Bag: A Found Anthology
There have already been two book compilations from Found magazine, and editor Davy Rothbart is constantly on the road with his crew, reading and performing everywhere from major TV talk shows to little out-of-the-way places. He’s also an acclaimed short story writer, so it was only a matter of time until he merged the concept…
Critic Beats Film
Editor: Thank heavens Charlie Myers is back at “Filmland.” Now if there were only some good movies for him to review … Betty Briggs, Ferndale
The Eternal
Sonic Youth provides the bridge between 1970s post-punk experimentations (and noise) and the contemporary noise-core and Black Metal movements, while including an eclectic variety of musical genres flowing beneath its span. So it’s no great surprise to discover that Sonic Youth drew on some of those contemporary influences, within the band’s own evolution, for their…
Light Greens
Editor: It always amazes me how the timber industry learns eco-speak, renames itself, showers in greenwash and tries to make a virtue of necessity (“The McKay Tract,” May 21). As I recall, the improvements (road decommissioning, sediment control, wildlife protections) that Green Diamond chief forester Greg Templeton credits to his employer (formerly Simpson Timber Company)…
Don’t Call It Chili!
Regular readers of this column know by now that I’m a cantankerous omnivore. The fact is, I’m worse than that: I’m a bigot. I have rarely had vegetarian (much less vegan) food that was better than a three on a scale of 10, at least in terms of flavor. I try to compensate for my…
Busy Buzz
Life is beautiful said the busy bee to…
Taking It in the Teeth
Wayne Atkins is in a race: against cancer and the California budget. The state’s decision to eliminate adult dental care and eight other "optional" benefits from the Medi-Cal program effective July 1 recently sent Atkins and countless other North Coast residents into an all-out scramble to complete costly dental work prior to the state’s funding…
Land of the Dudes
Previews Opening Friday, June 12, is The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a "reinterpretation" by director Tony Scott (Man on Fire) of the 1974 thriller about the takeover of a train by an armed gang seeking 10 million in ransom. Denzel Washington is the dispatcher matching wits with mastermind John Travolta. Rated R for…
Eye of the Beholder
An observer at the most recent College of the Redwoods Board of Trustees meeting, on June 2, reported afterward that he’d witnessed a troubling thing. During the public comment period, a couple of students stood up. They wanted to know how it was that the Associated Students of College of the Redwoods (ASCR) had been…
Double Down
On April 3, the Big Lagoon Rancheria filed a complaint in United States District Court, Northern District, against the State of California. The suit tries to force the state to negotiate a gambling compact for a class III casino-hotel on the tribe’s ancestral land on the edge of Big Lagoon. Round gazillion. Or so it…
Music for the People
The title track of the Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars record boils it down: "Living like a refugee is not easy." That’s an understatement, especially when you look at the life of someone like the group’s young rapper/drummer, who calls himself Black Nature. He’s no longer a refugee, in fact he’s currently living in San…
Revolt!
Your correspondent has a hard time remembering any Times-Standard op-ed so informative and entertaining as the one published Tuesday, on the eve of the big public hearing on election reform in the city of Eureka. The editorial, titled "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts" and signed by seven past luminaries of city government, took square aim…
Second Friday Arts! Arcata
Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at more than 30 participating locations in Arcata. The Arts! Arcata listings were not available at press time. Please refer to www.artsarcata.com for details or call 822-4500.
