Broken Glass Houses
Behind Larry Glass’ crusade to change how Eureka deals with dangerous rentals
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Broken Glass Houses
Larry Glass is a firm believer in the “broken windows” theory, which holds that if you neglect the little problems, your neighborhood will go downhill fast: Start with a busted window, this theory goes, and before long you’ll have graffiti on the walls, trash in the streets, apathetic (or just pathetic) residents turning to petty…
KEET World Returneth
For most folks, anyway — and likely not without some tech-wrangling. KEET’s press release last week announcing that KEETWorld would no longer be available on Suddenlink cable channel eight annoyed fans of Tavis Smiley , Alan Alda and science . It seems Access Humboldt has held the rights to the channel all along and was…
NHM update: “Future Uncertain”
Press. This just in from NHM board member Karen Reiss: HSU and Natural History Museum Board discuss plan to keep museum open until July 2010; future still uncertain The HSU Natural History Museum Advisory Board met with HSU Provost Robert Snyder and College of Natural Resources and Sciences Associate Dean Steven Smith last night to…
Beers on Arcata (and Van Jones)
Beers on Arcata (and Van Jones): Thoughts on the departure of Van Jones lead to talk of a high school reunion in Arcata in this piece by Nevada Assemblyman Bob Beers, a conservative Arcata High and HSU grad who currently lives near Vegas. While Beers is vehemently pro-USA, he writes his broadsides for a Toronto…
Suspected Grow House Bust In Progress
UPDATE #2: The T-S has the details. UPDATE: Busted. County Drug Task Force officers gave four loud repetitions of “Police Department! Search Warrant! Demanding Entry!” before busting open the front door. Inside an attached studio building they found processed marijuana, packaging material, two scales and seven grown lights feeding an untold number of two- to…
Michael Peacock Dead, Homicide Suspected
Michael Peacock Dead, Homicide Supsected: The man who testified for the prosecution in the case against former Mendocino County Republican Party Chair Kenny Rogers was killed Friday. Foul play appears to have been invovled, according to the Sacramento Bee. In July, Rogers was convicted of soliciting the murder of a political opponent; Tim Stelloh’s report…
Bridgeville Man Convicted of Federal Crime
Bridgeville resident and, according to his Facebook profile, HSU grad (class of ’76) Michael Dana McEnry today was convicted of flying a plane without a pilot’s license . Back in January, apparently, McEnry nearly crashed into another plane while he was (very poorly) landing a single-engine Cessna at the Eastern Sierra Regional Airport in Bishop.…
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Who Said This
and who was he talking about? …a doofus non sequitur in a heavy overcoat, gesturing toward the west. The answer. And it does kinda provide a nice lead-in to our Best Of Humboldt issue, hittin’ the street tomorrow.
Want a job?
Want a job?: The Sun Valley floral farm is hiring, apparently, and they don’t think anyone ’round here is interested. The company’s HR director tells the Willows Journal, “We’ve pretty much exhausted our work pool.” Really? None of Humboldt County’s 11.6 percent of residents currently out of work wants a full-time gig with medical, dental…
Diebold Says Byebye
Humboldt.) to the voting biz. Buh-bye.
More sour grapes
More sour grapes: Today’s L.A. Times offers further examination of Bob Hodgson’s critique of wine judging. The punnish title: “Findings of wine contest study hard for critics to swallow.” It seems the industry has its defenders. (Side note to the Times — the college here is not called Cal State
Who Was Jeff Zander?
Jeffrey Zander didn’t last long as the executive director of the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission (RREDC). He was hired in October 2008. By the following January, he had been placed on paid administrative leave. Four months later, in May of this year, he resigned, leaving behind a board of directors so cowed by the…
Arts Alive!
1. F ST. CAFÉ 1630 F St. Bill Pierson, Italian Landscape. 1a. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Jim Czernohlavik, ceramics. 1b. ST. INNOCENT ORTHODOX CHURCH 939 F St. Sara Marina. 2. THE INK PEOPLE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 411 12th St. Transitions including work from multiple artists. Arupa, watercolors; Karan Collenberg, etchings; assemblages by Amy…
Get Milt
Editor: In his insightful “Town Dandy” column of Aug. 27, the North Coast Journal’s editor, Hank Sims, sums up Democratic State Senator Patricia Wiggins’ unfortunate, tormented tenure in office perfectly. As a partisan Democrat myself, I would like to remind the predominantly self-appointed so-called leaders of our local, official Democratic Party that the great, groundbreaking,…
You Are the Cure
Editor: I felt heartened when I read Dr. Lindsay’s statement regarding swine flu — “We’re focusing on prevention efforts” — but then was surprised that nothing other than covering mouth and nose when sneezing, washing hands frequently and getting vaccinated was mentioned (“The Coming Flu,” Aug. 27). Here in Humboldt where so many people grow…
Charlie’s Biases
Editor: In a recent movie review, Charlie Myers complained that he was being criticized for the fact that he isn’t enjoying the spate of dorky “guy movies” which he’s seen lately (and for what it’s worth, I agree with him — yuck!). The comment made me realize what I like best about Charlie and why…
Popular Songs
For over two decades, Yo La Tengo, fronted by the husband/wife duo of vocalist/guitarist Ira Kaplan and vocalist/drummer/percussionist Georgia Hubley, have crafted a wide array of slightly subverted rock songs that leans toward ’60s pop melodies. After the cementing of the group’s core with the addition of bassist James McNew in 1993, the Hoboken, N.J.-based…
Rural and Proud
Editor: In the Aug. 20 edition of the North Coast Journal, Richard Engel manages to tie in the sad and troublesome issue of toxic algae blooms in our rivers to HumCPR’s mission of protecting rural living styles (“Mailbox”). As if it were somehow the fault of people who do not live in the city that…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
When One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in the U.S. — especially when it appeared in paperback in the early 1970s — It arrived as a revelation. As books editor for a weekly newspaper in Boston, I met writers and editors who came up from New York, and the talk was always of this…
CORRECTION:
Last week’s story “The Coming Flu” inaccurately reported that in California about 36,000 people die each year from seasonal flu. In fact, that is the estimated number of flu-related deaths per year in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number is an estimate, not an exact count. The Journal…
Puzzle Edition
Time to get those neurons moving! The first person to e-mail me with correct answers wins First (and invaluable!) Prize: your choice of coffee in Eureka or Arcata with me or with Fifi (sorry, cleaning service not included). Answers will be published in the North Coast Journal next week. How many triangles are in this…
Stella
When she comes in through the dog door,…
Cutting Off the Kids
When I used to live in the Bay Area you could take your kid to the ballpark for a dollar and if you went on Wednesday you could buy her a hotdog for one dollar more. The A’s had empty seats to fill, but it was a great long-term strategy regardless. Children, stuffing their faces…
Locavores in the Big Apple
Living in the city — as in The City — one makes some of the same choices concerning the basic necessities as living in the country — as in Behind the Redwood Curtain. My dear friends Kathy and Lorenzo have lived in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City for 19 years. By sequestering the…
Tea in Fortuna
The Fortuna Vets’ Hall was decked out in red, white and blue from top to bottom last Wednesday in preparation for the Humboldt Tea Party Patriots’ big to-do, a town hall meeting on health care. A banner with a flag background announced the Patriots’ “Declaration of Independence from Tax and Spend Politics.” As a growing…
Woodstock Bildungsroman
Previews Opening Friday, Sept. 4, Sandra Bullock stars as a crossword puzzle designer who has designs on newsman Steve (Bradley Cooper) after one blind date in All About Steve. Her growing obsession with Steve is encouraged by reporter Hartman (Thomas Hayden Church), for his own purposes. Rated PG-13 for sexual content including innuendos. 98m. At…
Stung
It’s a familiar story: A quiet evening on Third Street in Old Town Eureka. Well-heeled tourists stroll catty-corner from their berths at the Carter House Inn to the Carter House’s tony Restaurant 301 for a nightcap. Working-late lawyers in the several law offices along the historic street shuffle a few last thoughts. And in front…
Lions Roar
How did the lion become synonymous with reggae music? It’s probably because Rastafarian’s revere the Ethiopian king known as His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Or maybe it’s just because the big cats are powerful and have cool-looking manes. A pride of…
