NCJ alums Japhet and Yulia Weeks report on a new surf-related clothing venture for the Wall Street Journal :
Hank Sims
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Former Creamery CEO Ghilarducci to Plead Guilty to Fraud
The Ferndale Enterprise has the scoop.
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Neely and the Coming Craziness
Holy moly, but does the black ops PR firm known as the Humboldt Mirror ever have a smoking hot story this morning. We would only add that the $10,000 donation from a SoCal developer to the Bonnie Neely for Supervisor campaign seems to have come not from the developer himself, but the developer’s corporation — […]
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Blue Lake Doubles Down on LCCI
As part of Lost Coast Communication’s deal to buy radio station KXGO (reported here yesterday), the Blue Lake Rancheria will take a large stake in the company, according to an ownership report filed with the Federal Communications Commission. According to the report and LCCI Chairman Patrick Cleary, the rancheria — owner of the Blue Lake […]
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Personhood and People
Last week’ Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case overturned 100 years of law, and basically conferred upon corporations and other fictitious entities the unlimited right to participate in electioneering and the financing of political campaigns. It extended to these imaginary bodies yet another right of United States citizenship. Where […]
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Sundberg Is In
At a meeting in the North Coast Journal offices a few moments ago, lifelong McKinleyville resident Ryan Sundberg ended the speculation — he confirmed that he will, in fact, join the throng seeking the seat of outgoing Fifth District Supervisor Jill Duffy in the upcoming election. Sundberg, 34, is a member of the Trinidad Rancheria […]
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Humboldt County Promo Videos
Remeber those promotional YouTube videos the county spent a pile of money on a while back ? This isn’t those.
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Old Town Bar and Grill: Saved!
It looks as if the Humboldt County building worst damaged in Jan. 9 earthquake is gonna be saved after all. Three days after the earthquake, the Eureka City Council met in emergency session to permit the destruction of the former Old Town Bar and Grill building, which sits on Second Street in between D and […]
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Eureka California is Dead
control. Eureka California is Dead: The Flagpole, our sister paper in Athens, Ga., reports that the local (to Athens) powerpunk band Eureka California has just dropped a new album — Eureka California is Dead. Check out the band’s MySpace page.
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Heads Watered
On Tuesday, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors declared its support for agricultural tourism, upscale lumber products and kids with big, fast computers, and it laid some money on the table to help those things flourish across our land. These were the big winners in this go-round of disbursements from the Headwaters Fund, the county’s […]
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Points de suspension
Dapper Dean. Hey, a bankrupt Texan! What a twist, though! If you were giving odds 10 years ago, who would you have expected to end up still in control of his insanely over-leveraged megalithic megacorp … Maxxam/Pacific Lumber’s Charles Hurwitz, High Lord of the Financial Dark Arts, or boy-faced newspaperman Dean Singleton? Well, you got […]
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MediaNews Declares Bankruptcy
MediaNews Declares Bankruptcy: … but the Times-Standard’s parent corporation is expected to breeze through court with the blessing of creditors, the Wall Street Journal reports. Head honcho Dean “The Beast” Singleton will remain in