Last Friday morning, Andrew I. Jones — a McKinleyville-based publicist, Web designer and publisher — logged onto his popular parenting blog, Thingamababy, to add a comment to one of his posts. But he was having some problems. He refreshed and refreshed, but thingamababy.com wasn’t showing his comment. So he tried again, but received the same […]
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Hot Seats
The latest chapter in the long-running battle over the county general plan took place at the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, when the board voted 3-2 to reappoint Bruce Emad — a 12-year veteran of the Humboldt County Planning Commission — to another term. Supervisors Jimmy Smith, Clif Clendenen and board chair Mark Lovelace […]
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Is Everybody HAPPY?
Hey, everybody! Are y’all feeling happy? Of course you are! All right! How do I know you’re so happy? Because no less an authority than Sunset Magazine tells me so! In its February issue, Sunset — your “premier resource for achieving the ultimate Western lifestyle” — names Eureka one of the top 10 happiest places left of the […]
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Search & Suspend
On the morning of Feb. 22, 2010, Carlos Espinosa, a junior at Arcata High, was just getting ready to start his second period class when his teacher asked to have a word with him. The sweatshirt he was wearing, she asked — did he really think that was appropriate? The shirt was a stoner’s spoof […]
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The Golden Boy
Monday morning saw the true relaunch of Gov. Jerry Brown, and some of us streaming his press conference from Sacramento grasped pretty quickly what the recent change in regime would entail. Brown was unveiling his proposed 2011-12 state budget, which is a horrifying thing. In the face of a $28 billion budget shortfall, Brown […]
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Former RREDC Exec Director Jeff Zander Arrested
Remember Jeff Zander? He was the semi-legendary con man that the Redwood Region Economic Development Corporation hired to be its executive director a couple of years ago — inexplicably. As detailed at the second link above, dating from a year or so ago, Zander had plenty of unresolved legal troubles before he came to Humboldt […]
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Montel Williams For Humboldt Tourism Commissioner
Yes, yes indeed! Do as the man says and come check out our fat buds! We will hook you up and send you home happy! (Despite what our new hero says, though, you can give the Appalachian Trail a pass.)
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Staking Claims
Despite the advance hype, there wasn’t much happening early Tuesday morning at the Best Western Bayshore Inn, down there by the Bayshore Mall. Dustin Barton and Nate Shaffer, the Ohio Valley Gold and Silver Refinery’s men on the ground, were supposed to be energetically buying precious metals, old coins, watches, jewelry, guitars, war memorabilia and […]
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Gold Sellers Beware!
A full-page ad in this week’s Journal (page 4) calls one and all down to the Best Western Bayshore Inn, so that the good folks at Ohio Valley Gold and Silver Refinery, in town for one week only, might offer fine prices for your precious metal collectibles. They’ll be there Tuesday through Saturday, the ad […]
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Fortuna’s Ken Zanzi Appointed To Coastal Commission
A press release from the office of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, reproduced here, announces that the outgoing governor has appointed the Fortuna Mayor Pro-Tem to fill Bonnie Neely’s former seat on the California Coastal Commission.
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Snowboarding Accident Claims HSU Student
Humboldt State sophomore Cooper Plaxco went missing Christmas Eve while snowboarding British Columbia’s Whistler Mountain resort, the Press-Democrat reports. “He was good at everything he did,” said another friend, Liz Randol. “He was the sweetest kid.”
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Wish Lists
Last week, in our annual roundup of Humboldt County’s year-that-was, we lamented the fact that the winning side in November’s monumental election seems unclear about what, exactly, it would like to accomplish. Business interests and ideological conservatives put a great deal of effort into getting their candidates into office this go-around, and they met with […]