Ride ‘Em Candidate!
Roundin’ up the good, the bad and the Balloon Track in the Eureka election
Cover Stories
Seek Council-ing
Like much of the country, the City of Eureka has seen better days — particularly in the wallet department. Sure, unemployment hasn’t hit as hard here as elsewhere (knock wood), but good jobs with bennies are few and far between; homelessness remains a lingering, seemingly unsolvable problem; and the city government has had its general…
Hail to the Chief
You could just look at the list of supporters for Eureka’s two mayoral candidates and make a snap judgment (and neverminding that it’s a nonpartisan position): If you align with the generally conservative, pro-Marina Center types, then Frank Jager, currently the Fourth Ward’s city councilman, is your man. If you align with the generally liberal,…
What’s Measure N For?
The politicos have been fighting over it for the last six years. The ground underneath it has been a city headache and a constant source of grief for at least a decade. Now, with Measure N on Eureka’s ballot next month, the public will have something to say about Marina Center, the massive waterfront development…
Local Government Worker Salaries Revealed
[UPDATED 11/1: See Treasurer/Tax Collector information below.] Many Humboldt County employees made more money last year than the stated maximum salaries for their positions, including several workers whose incomes were more than twice the amounts listed for their job titles, according to newly released information from the State Controller’s Office. Thanks to a salary scandal…
Former T-S City Editor Arrested For Heroin Possession
James Faulk, former city editor, reporter and “fat guy” film columnist for the Times-Standard, was arrested yesterday by Eureka police officers and booked into the Humboldt County Jail on charges of heroin possession. Around 1 p.m. Tuesday, Faulk was observed leaving an apartment complex that was the subject of an EPD search warrant, a press…
Jerry Brown, Comin’ to Town
California Attorney General Jerry Brown, the once and would-be future Governor of California, will be making an appearance at the Samoa Cookhouse on the morning of Halloween day, just about 48 hours before polls open. Local Democratic Party apparatchik Andrew Bird will be organizing Brown’s North Coast appearance, and confirmed the date to the Journal moments…
Old Town Carriage Company Clomps Around Town Again
Marty L’Herault is back shepherding tourists around Old Town following this summer’s horrific accident. But where is Cinnamon?
First Big-Ass Storm Of The Year Nearly Here
A PACIFIC STORM WILL PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT RAIN ACROSS NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA SATURDAY NIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL GENERALLY RANGE BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES. HOWEVER…TERRAIN FAVORED AREAS LIKE THE KING AND SOUTH FORK MOUNTAIN RANGES WILL LIKELY HAVE 5 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN. THE RAIN WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES…AND MAY CAUSE PONDING…ROCK SLIDES…AND REDUCE VISIBILITIES.…
Zero History
These days the only people who truly believe science fiction is about the future are kids, overly literal genre fanatics and ignorant literary snobs. The genre has always dealt in metaphors for the present. William Gibson has always known this, so it’s not surprising that over the last decade he’s largely discarded the futuristic elements…
Salsa Chefs: Rising Stars
Recipe for a special day: Choose a Saturday morning in Fall. Make it sunny and set it at a pleasant temperature. Go to the Arcata Farmers’ Market. Walk around the Plaza until you reach the corner of 9th and H streets. Taste six different variations on the theme of salsa. Vote for your favorite salsa.…
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (DVD)
The bare intimacy that Leonard Cohen brings to his songs defines vulnerability. Yet to have that type of vulnerability in the music business has its dangers. The recently unearthed and painstakingly reconstructed documentary, Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, follows Cohen and his band on a 20-city European tour in the spring of 1972. Directed…
Ode to Humboldt
Murdering by numbers: One, two, three people Forty-eight,…
Full-on Heart
There was a time when Joanne Rand was a visitor to Humboldt, one of many songwriters who stopped here on tours up and down the coast, in Joanne’s case often in conjunction with some environmental group fighting to save the trees or free the rivers. That’s how she met her husband, Greg King, an eco-warrior…
So Read This, Already!
You don’t have to be from Brooklyn to know, and probably use, many Yiddish words, most of which sound much more colorful than their English equivalents. Schmoozing sounds just like what it is, while schlepping a heavy suitcase through the airport is so much more evocative than plain old “hauling.” Do your workmates complain a…
Opened Door
Investigating child abuse is not a priority. Neither is providing mental health services to children who need them. And providing child care for low-income parents trying to stay off welfare? Ha! says California’s governor, who sliced funding for the above out of the most recent overdue budget. Just a little reminder that the least powerful…
Just ‘Cause
The benefit run/walk is a longstanding tradition, here and elsewhere — all sorts of causes and nonprofits put them on. Runners or walkers or moms with strollers gather pledges or simply pay a fee then take off from some designated location, circle around some specific distance and come back. Last time I visited San Francisco,…
Set Your Phasers to “Fun!”
Calling all nerds and geeks, dweebs and poindexters! Finally, the perfect opportunity has arrived to emerge from the to-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon that is your bedroom, free from fear of wedgies, swirlies and/or noogies. Remember, your parents have been begging you to get out more. It’s time. Believe me, your Battlestar Galactica boxsets…
Jackass: Accept It
Previews HEREAFTER. Clint Eastwood directs a supernatural tale from British screenwriter Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen). Matt Damon stars as a factory worker who can channel the dead and serve as a medium. 129m. Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, including disturbing disaster and accident images and brief strong language. Opening at the Broadway and…
Who’s That?
It was a sunny Tuesday in New York City and Cory McAbee, the driving force behind The Bill Nayer Show, was just finishing a lunch of Vietnamese seafood soup in Chinatown, right around the corner from his recording studio. Who, you might wonder, is Billy Nayer? “It’s just the name of the band,” he says…
The Child We Lost
Editor: Thank you for doing the story about Chloe, the transgender teen who opted for suicide. As one who has known many transgender people over the years, I cannot think of a sadder way or reason to end one’s life. There is a long list of people we can blame, too: Islam, social progressives, Franklin…
Rorschach Blots
Editor: John Osborn was spot-on with his article about big money in the Eureka City Council race (“Interested Parties,” Oct. 14). It is apparent that certain interests in this town are blatantly trying to buy their way into City Hall. It also points out the futility of trying to put limits on individual donations. The…
