It’s been said that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. But what if you’d kinda like to repeat it? Or at least lovingly recreate a small portion of it? This Saturday, May 7, flip George Santayana the bird for the first ever Humboldt Living History Day, stretching to seven local […]
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You Write Seven-O-Heaven
In case the attention lavished on local authors in this week’s NCJ Book Issue has you feeling a bit jealous, we at the Journal wanted to give you, the readers, the opportunity to do some brief writing of your own. Like, really brief. This week’s cover features Seven-O-Heaven star Will Startare delving into local author […]
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Arkley and Lovelace Smackdown!
The rhetoric employed by Humboldt County Supervisor Mark Lovelace and Security National President and CEO Rob Arkley in e-mails released by the County today as the result of a Public Records request filed by Arkley assistant Shirley Fuller (and first reported on LoCO) might strike some as childishly heated. But when put in the proper […]
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Egg cetera
‘Tis that time of year again! Time to partake in everybody’s favorite symbolically Pagan tradition somehow co-opted into a Christian holiday; the hunt for brightly colored byproducts of the chicken reproductive system. Easter is precious. Now you could hide eggs at your own house solely for your own children to find. But if we’ve learned […]
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Quiz Me
So, like, you know how you’ve got that friend whose brain is full of useless facts and dominates every time you’re foolish enough to challenge him to a game of Trivial Pursuit. Dude, I’m totally that guy. Green wedge, pink wedge, orange wedge — it don’t matter. I complete my pie so fast I should […]
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Face to Face
Arbitrary, perhaps, but since the 1970s April has been recognized as National Autism Awareness Month. According to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are on the rise and now affect about one in 110 children in the United States. Those raw numbers barely begin to reflect the […]
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Slime Ball
“Once fastened, servile, now you’re getting sharp Moving oh so swiftly with such disarm I pulled the covers over him Should have pulled the alarm Turned to my nemesis, a fool not a (radio edit) god Please, don’t go on me … Don’t go on me” — Lyrical excerpt from Pearl Jam’s “Go.” I know […]
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Caltrans HQ Protest, Round Two
Opponents of the California Department of Transportation’s Richardson Grove Improvement Project staged a second rally Monday at Caltrans’ District 1 office on Wabash in Eureka. Colorful signs, chants of “One demand: Cancel the plan!,” and personal, impassioned, megaphone-aided pleas from protesters directed at local law enforcement and office occupants were plentiful. The rally (similar in […]
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Need A Cause? Humboldtians Air Grievances
In anticipation of Tax Day on Monday, soggy teabaggery was on full display in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse Friday as just over 50 members of the Humboldt Tea Party Patriots braved the drizzle to voice their displeasure with, as one sign put it, being “Taxed Enough Already.” (See below for more signage.) The rally […]