Wildfires are filling the skies with haze, but the smokiest spot in Humboldt County on Sept. 13 wasn’t a wild conflagration. It was hundreds of miniature arsons as a smorgasbord of weed enthusiasts descended on the Mateel Community Center for the Golden Tarp Award, a celebration of Humboldt-grown pot. While it was pretty clear that […]
Grant Scott-Goforth
Grant Scott-Goforth was an assistant editor and staff writer for The Journal from 2013 to 2017.
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The Discovery Museum Finds a Temporary Home
Good news for the Discovery Museum: It’s found a new, albeit temporary, home in the Jefferson School community center. As you may have read in this week’s Journal, the museum (and 10 other tenants in the Carson Block) have to pull up stakes so the building can undergo a multi-million-dollar seismic retrofit. Meanwhile, the Westside […]
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Homeless Museum
Long-overdue repairs on the Carson Block — that massive edifice at the intersection of Third and F streets in Eureka that was once the largest office building north of San Francisco — are forcing tenants out of a home. Old Town Art Gallery and the Discovery Museum are among the restoration refugees and, while the […]
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Pot’s a Pain for Painkillers
America’s consumption of opioids — legal pain meds — has been in the news for years. People are taking more pills for more maladies. And many are dying. By 2011, more than 15,000 people were dying every year from overdose on pain pills. That is scary. There are people who need strong painkillers, and they […]
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Last of the Liquors Leave the Pulp Mill
The Samoa Pulp Mill is liquor free as of today. The nearly six-month process of hauling the three million gallons of abandoned caustic chemicals ended with a final truck heading northbound to Longview, Washington, where the pulping liquors are being reconstituted for use in a pulp mill there. Congressman Jared Huffman praised the efforts of […]
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Covered in Cute
If you saw the Journal‘s post earlier today, you know that some readers think paper copies of this publication make good backdrops for promotional marijuana pictures. But hey, they make good backdrops for cuteness too. Above is Honey, friend of one of the Journal’s delivery drivers. I have been a part of the Journal delivery […]
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DA Candidates Covered in Weed
A savvy Fortuna merchant is peddling some of last year’s great green crop for what, by his/her account, is a swinging deal. Yup, for “200 a unit” you can pick up some year-old, untrimmed, seeded trainwreck via Craigslist. The seller, apparently aware that pictures = clicks on Craigslist postings, carefully piled the “good bud” on […]
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Leave Your Mark on Ocean Night
If you were hot to see Wiremark, as the Journal had erroneously named tonight’s Ocean Night film, tough. The actual title is Watermark, and it’s a painterly exploration of how humankind has shaped and been shaped by water. In California, the vast, manmade All-American Canal diverts water from the Colorado River to urban centres. In India, […]
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City Lights Up
Business owners near Las Vegas’ most famous roadway face a unique design review problem: Because of a city-approved “scenic byway” designation, any business located on Las Vegas Boulevard between Sahara and Washington avenues must have a sign that contains 75 percent neon. You know, to maintain that preternatural aura that defines the desert city nights. […]
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Weed All Around
East: A California marijuana lobby is growing like, well … , with representatives most recently tapping growers in Willow Creek for cash and pledges upwards of $5,000 and a congratulatory to-do over the defeat of Senate Bill 1262, which sought to regulate medical mariuana in California (see “Cannabis Quagmire,” Aug. 21). In a press release, […]
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The Importance of Why
Raise your hand if you think you can solve an eighth grade math problem. If you came up during the learn-and-burn era of teaching in the 1990s and 2000s in California, you are familiar with filling in bubbles and teachers encouraging you to guess if you don’t know the answer; cramming dates, vocabulary or formulas […]
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Eureka Serviceman Dies in Afghanistan
Flags will fly at half mast this week in honor of a Eureka man who died while serving in the Army in Afghanistan last week. Sgt. Christopher W. Mulalley, 26, died Friday, Aug. 22, in Gardez, Afghanistan, as the result of a non-combat related incident, according to a Department of Defense new release. The Army […]