Tuesday morning, half an hour or so before the Eureka Inn‘s big grand reopening shindig. A few workmen pass back and forth in the grande old damme’s neatly but sparsely refurbished lobby, on their way to one task or another. A very eager and enthusiastic young woman manned the front counter, unsure about when the […]
Hank Sims
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Tri-City Weekly: Now With Dada Headlines!
Ever on the lookout for new ways to stimulate the voracious intellect of its readership, the Tri-City Weekly has evidently hired a student of early 20th century European surrealism to compose absurdist tone poems for the front cover: Q: What does it mean? A: What does a chicken mean, you filthy bourgeois?
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Grovies: CALL TO ARMS
It is ON, says Grovie organizer Jeff Muskrat in an e-mail call to arms that came across our desk today. Muskrat says that trees are already being felled in preparation for the Richardson Grove project; he’s forecasting direct action starting Memorial Day weekend. !RICHARDSON GROVE ACTION ALERT! The environmentalists’ last stand? I’m forwarding this to […]
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Video from Tonight’s 4th District Debate
Technical mishaps, a hotchpotch of topics, plenty o’ calls/questions from the listeners and a few heated moments. That was tonight’s NCJ/KHUM Fourth District Supervisor debate. Check it out.
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Fiorina in Arcata Tomorrow
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate will appear at O&M industries, of all places. U.S. Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina to Host Town Hall in Eureka Area ARCATA, CA – U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina will tomorrow host a town hall with employees, small-business owners and other community members at O & M Industries in the […]
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Return to Walmart
Last week, just after we went to press, Security National’s Randy Gans stood up at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Eureka City Council and make a surprising announcement: The company he represents, which has been seeking to develop a long-vacant railroad on the Eureka waterfront for the last five and a half years, wishes […]
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Eureka Inn Opens Tomorrow
No freaking joke — the Eureka Inn is going to have a semi-stealth grand opening tomorrow. The Journal just spoke with owner Libo Zhu, who was answering phones at the desk when we called. Zhu said that the company didn’t wish to make a splash because they’re just starting with a few rooms at first. […]
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Oddity of the Day
Google News thinks that every single article in Alexander Cockburn’s radical Counterpunch newsletter is written by former Maxxam general counsel Jared Carter:
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Crime Rates in Humboldt County
In his trip from debate to debate around Humboldt County this election season, District Attorney Paul Gallegos has taken credit for reducing violent crime during his eight years as the county’s chief prosecutor. To state it up front: I believe that the case the counselor is advancing here is a piece of minor campaign flummery […]
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DA Debate Video
… via the KHUM Crap-Cam. This debate was tons of fun — two more to come, next Thursday and the Thursday after, with the candidates for supervisor.
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Three for Fourth
If the Fifth Supervisorial District, profiled in last week’s issue, is the most rural and expansive part of the county, then the Fourth District is the most urban and compact. The district takes in part of the Samoa Peninsula (Samoa and Fairhaven) but the great bulk of its population lives in and around the city […]
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The New Northcoastjournal.com!
The North Coast Journal’s new Internet home has arrived! Peek around, poke around, and file any complaints in the comments. There’s bound to be some dusty corners of this thing that still need sprucing up. This is a top-down and head-to-toe revision of our most recent site, which was circa 2007. The first thing you’ll […]