Waiting for Tish Non
While tribal members are eager for the Bear River Band’s new houses near Loleta, others fear increased urbanization of a rural heaven
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Waiting for Tish Non
Marcie Jake, 72, sat in a stuffed blue plush chair in the small living room/dining room/kitchen of the tiny apartment she shares with Leonard David Frye in Basayo Village, a HUD-funded tribal housing complex owned by the Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria. It was warm and half sunny outside, a typical noontime in mid-May…
Great Pacific Garbage Patch Installation
The official announcment: On World Oceans Day thousands of plastic bottles, hundreds of kids, and many student-made life-sized marine animals will assemble into a simulation of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch on the Arcata Elementary School campus. The Arcata Community Recycling Center (ACRC) and Arcata Elementary School District (AES) are in the final stages of…
FINAL REPORT
Fifth District RYAN SUNDBERG: 39.43% JEFFREY LYTLE: 3.41% PATRICK CLEARY: 30.58% PAT HIGGINS: 26.46% District Attorney KATHLEEN BRYSON: 4.61% ALLISON JACKSON: 37.03% PAUL V. GALLEGOS: 39.72% PAUL HAGEN: 18.53% Assessor JON BROOKS: 26.08% MARI WILSON: 39.31% JOHANNA RODONI: 34.48% Fourth District VIRGINIA BASS: 48.83% BONNIE NEELY: 30.43% JEFF LEONARD: 20.43% Sheriff MIKE DOWNEY: 66.64% MICHAEL…
Fifth Report
Half the precincts in. McK, SoHum, Arcata still uncounted. ASSESSOR Brooks: 23.85% Wilson: 39.42% Rodoni: 36.60% DISTRICT ATTORNEY Bryson: 5.04% Jackson: 39.23% Gallegos: 37.20% Hagen: 18.41% SHERIFF Downey: 66.66% Hislop: 33.09% FIFTH DISTRICT Sundberg: 43.81% Lytle: 4.37% Cleary: 28.17% Higgins: 23.59%
Elections Web Site Dead
“They’re trying to fix it, but no time frame,” reports John Osborn.
FOURTH REPORT
40 out of 132 precincts. Fourth District all in. Next report: Arcata, FTA. 20,354 — 26.63% of registered voters. There are still more votes out there for the Fourth District — other mail-in ballots that will not be counted tonight — so there is still a very slim possibility that Virginia Bass could grab this…
Third Report
Only four more precincts left to report in the Fourth District — Virginia Bass could possibly lock it up tonight. 31 out of 132 precincts reporting. FOURTH DISTRICT BASS: 48.42% NEELY: 30.82% LEONARD: 20.45% FIFTH DISTRICT (NOTHING NEW) SHERIFF Downey: 66.15% Hislop: 33.59% DA Bryson: 5.35% Jackson: 38.29% Gallegos: 37.21% Hagen: 19.06% ASSESSOR: Brooks: 22.86%…
Second Results
Nine precincts reporting out of 132. Bass loses some edge. 15,180 votes counted. The next report is going to be much bigger. ASSESSOR Brooks: 21.93% Wilson: 40.49% Rodoni: 37.49% DISTRICT ATTORNEY Bryson: 5.80% Jackson: 38.43% Gallegos: 36.51% Hagen: 19.18% SHERIFF Downey: 66.67% Hislop: 33.07% FOURTH DISTRICT Bass: 50.31% Neely: 30.31% Leonard: 19.02% FIFTH DISTRICT (no…
… and the Food
Pat Higgins: Bob Doran, no slouch in these matters, reports insane, off-the-hook eats at the Higgins HQ — BBQ ribs, potato salad, homemade ice cream. Cleary: Chips and guac. Sundberg: Shrimp, fruit, chicken wings, onion rings and meatballs, says Ahron Sherman. Hislop: Pizza and crudites, says Ryan Burns. Neely:Modestly semifancy spread, pizzas and provolone basil thingy…
Reacting to the First Results
Bonnie Neely reads the first election results at Brick & Fire, Eureka. Photo by Heidi Walters “It’s still early. I’m still in the race.” — Patrick Cleary. “This is my first time, but it’s good to be ahead.” — Ryan Sundberg “Ooh — Downey’s taken a lead.” — Mike Hislop, reading the results “It’s still…
First Results
UPDATE: John Osborn phones in the first results — 11,477 absentee votes counted. Bass, Downey take big leads. UPDATE 2: John Osborn calls back and says that there was some sort of garbled communication in his first report: Actually, there were 13,898 votes counted in this round (percentages all the same). He says that Elections is…
Jackson/Downey at the Elks
The Elk’s Lodge in Eureka played host to not one, but two election night parties on Tuesday night with District Attorney candidate Allison Jackson and Humboldt County Sheriff candidate Mike Downey seemingly splitting the cost of catering. Around 100-150 supporters sipped drinks and chatted excitedly, while the two stars of evening made the rounds. Both…
Aperitif
The first results will be coming in in minutes. Here’s a couple of photos from the Fourth District to whet our appetites: “Thank you to everyone on our Campaign Team!” said Jeff Leonard in an e-mail to supporters this morning. “We had lots of fun, and we STAYED POSITIVE! I had lots of fun campaigning in…
Skinny Fortuna
The City of Fortuna likes to say, in official missives, that it frowns upon fiscal irresponsibility and teetering budgets at all times, not just dark times. It likes to be Sunny, yes, but also fit. Lean and Friendly. And so, for the City’s 2010-2011 budget, City management is proposing some belt-tightening it attributes as much…
Get Your Election Predictions!
That time again! Most of you have already voted, being who you are, so it’s time to kick back with another round of the Town Dandy’s Official Election Predictions. There have been pretty good years and pretty bad years, and I make no promises as to which this will be. As David Letterman used to…
Pot Radio: KMUD on NPR
The debate over KMUD community radio’s live coverage of marijuana raids went national this morning on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.” Law enforcement officials believe the broadcasts could put them in the line of fire by giving Mexican drug lords a heads up while KHUM Program Director Marianne Knorzer argues that the reports encourage government…
Like Unto the Phoenix!
After two hours of mortal terror and deep existential crisis on the part of your humble sysadmin, this Web site is back. Sorry for the interruption. Apologies, too, if you posted a comment sometime in the last day and now find that it has gone missing. Feel free to repost. I’m outta here.
North Coast Open Studios
North Coast Open Studios continues today, June 6, from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and next weekend June 12 and 13, same time. You’ll find a complete guide inserted in this week’s Journal.
Eureka City Attorney to Resign
Eureka City Attorney Sheryl Schaffner today announced that she will resign next month and move to the Bay Area, where she will become the city attorney for San Ramon. Schaffner, whose last day with the city will be July 9, said she and her husband are moving in order to be closer to her aging…
Reggae Rising Decision Postponed (update)
Dimmick given two more weeks to raise a bundle The folks behind Reggae Rising, the annual music festival on the Eel River, came before the Humboldt County Planning Commission June 3, seeking permit approval and asked for a little more time to get their money straight. They got the time — a decision was postponed…
Tweet the Vote
When Ashton Kutcher was on David Letterman last week, he sat on Dave’s lap, snapped a photo with his iPhone and posted it immediately to Twitter. Letterman spent the rest of the interview mocking Twitter and the twits who use it — repeatedly interrupting Kutcher with imitations of typical tweets. “Just dropped an egg,” Letterman…
One Real Woman
Previews Coming this weekend: Get Him to the Greek, a sequel/spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall from writer/director Nicholas Stoller and producer Judd Apatow, with Russell Brand returning as narcissistic, hedonist Brit rock star Aldous Snow. Jonah Hill plays an idealistic record company intern assigned to get him from London to L.A.’s Greek Theater for a…
Evolution
There was a small uproar when The Glitch Mob debuted material from their new album, Drink the Sea, at Coachella in April. The three DJs from L.A. — Justin* Boreta*, Josh “Ooah” Mayer and Ed Ma, aka “edIT” — are known for energetic live shows where they bounce behind Lemur laptops punching touch screens as…
Money in Politics
It’s that time again. The latest round of campaign finance disclosure forms have arrived, and the money frenzy reached new heights. By this point, the lines are drawn and the typical players are rallying behind one candidate or another. In the Fourth District Supervisor race, incumbent Bonnie Neely and contender Virginia Bass broke the $100,000…
Low Tension
Editor: I would like to make a statement regarding your article “DA Trials” by Ryan Burns (May 27), specifically regarding Paul Gallegos. I am currently a Deputy District Attorney working for Mr. Gallegos. Burns states in his article: “If there’s any residual tension or bitterness here, it’s not visible to the untrained eye.” That is…
Lying for Dollars
Editor: I am writing to expose ongoing fraud concerning Propositions 16 and 17 (“Mad Props,” May 20 & 27). I’m not referring to PG&E’s Prop. 17, which masquerades as a taxpayer’s rights initiative and is built on the notion that we can’t govern ourselves without PG&E requiring a supermajority to challenge their monopoly, or Mercury…
End Times in Eureka
Editor: OMG! I don’t know which is more appalling – the Arkleys’ blatant self-interest in buying ballot measure placement, or the Eureka City Council’s cowardice in allowing them to do so (“Town Dandy,” May 27). I wish I had $30,000 to pay for ballot measure placement. I wonder how much money the Arkleys will spend…
June Swoon
Just give it a little kelp meal and wait a month. June 3. “Casey at the Bat” was first published on this day in 1888 by the San Francisco Examiner. This is a poem worth memorizing; it races along on sporty little iambic feet. And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets…
Arts Alive!
1. WORLD CUP 1626 F St. Phyllis Barba; music DJ Kissyface. 2. EUREKA INN 518 Seventh St. Join us as we participate in Arts Alive for the first time in over six years. 2a. HUMBOLDT ARTS COUNCIL at the Morris Graves Museum of Art 636 F St. Performance Rotunda: Music by Wallace & Phines; William…
The Great Silence
Sixty years ago, the physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked his lunch companions at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Where is everybody?” They had been discussing the odds of finding signs of extraterrestrial life, when a paradox occurred to Fermi: On the one hand, many technologically advanced ET civilizations should exist, given the size and age…
Trespassing
Your mind wants to say a logging road…
Our Hero: Superman on Earth
The first of the superheroes has been bending steel with his bare hands since 1932, in comics, animation, on radio and television and in movies. Now even as Smallville, the latest in a string of popular TV series, may be ending, another feature film is coming: a reboot by Chris Nolan, director of the successful…
Here’s To Taking It Easy
The Band had a unique way of blending disparate forms of American music, including horn arrangements that distilled equal parts orchestral and New Orleans marching band (largely due to instrumentalist Garth Hudson’s contributions). Later, Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop, Neutral Milk Hotel and Vic Chesnutt skewed musical categories even further with their own eccentric presentations of Americana.…
Mod Couple
In some ways, Same Time Next Year is the quintessential ’70s play. The ’70s were when the ’60s made it to suburbia, and to Middle America generally. Vietnam protest, the Generation Gap, the Sexual Revolution, Women’s Liberation, encounter groups, open marriage and a skyrocketing divorce rate — all of it really happened in the decade…
Where Journalism Begins
I should have written this column last year. That was when McKinleyville High School decided to eliminate the newspaper class which produced the Paw Prints student paper. So I now apologize to the hardworking Paw Prints staff. I slept on my watch. Their counterparts at Arcata High now face the same fate. To save money,…
