Wetness and darkness, the melancholy holidays … once in a while, for sanity’s sake, it’s nice to spend some time with some people doing work that is clearly and unambiguously good. For me, that means hanging out with scientists. There’s little that warms my heart so much as people who have given themselves over completely […]
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Legalization Set For Nov. 2010
cocaine. So says the Los Angeles Times: Supporters of an initiative that would legalize marijuana in California say they have collected enough signatures to ensure that it will be on the November 2010 ballot. The petition drive, which was run by a professional signature-gathering firm, collected more than 680,000 signatures, 57% more than the 433,971 […]
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Marina Center Live Blog
OK, we’ll be getting this party started as soon as the Marina Center item on today’s Coastal Commission agenda goes live. All the action is in the flashy box below, assuming it works. Go ahead and type words in there. Here’s the link to the Coastal Commission live webcast. Here’s Ryan Burns’ story in this […]
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Cage Match
As Journal reporter Ryan Burns writes elsewhere in this paper, the California Coastal Commission is set to hear an appeal connected with the proposed Marina Center development today (Thursday, Dec. 10). The hearing will kick off the true beginning of the fight over the proposed big box-anchored development on the old railyard on the Eureka […]
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Big Plea in Quigley Case
Press release just issued by the District Attorney Office: Today, jury selection in the People versus Whitmill and Flores trial was interrupted when the two defendants entered guilty pleas to the criminal charges related to the death of Nicole Quigley on October 6, 2008. Jason Whitmill, who was 32 years old at the time, and […]
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Where To Surf
“News is something someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.” — Lord Northcliffe Our county is home to countless subcultures. They range the full spectrum, from straight to strange, and rare is the person who doesn’t belong to at least three or four of them. Each has its own particular set of rules and […]
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NPR Does Arcata Pot Scene
NPR Does Arcata Pot Scene: You had your “Pot City: USA” — now the dulcet-toned National Public Radio is set to do its piece on medical Mary J. The story is set to air on the afternoon news magazine Small Things Considered tonight after 5 p.m.; here’s some text to go along with it. NPR […]
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No Pasaran
marijuana. Terrence McNally, de facto leader of Say Goodbye to the Arcata Eye (Boycott advertisers) — SGttAE(Ba) for short — has been ousted by the militant Jason Robo in a coup de Facebook . This is the worst thing to happen on Facebook since I forgot to water my Farmville crops. We will not let […]
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Line’s End?
The North Coast Railroad Authority, the public agency that controls the long-dormant train tracks between Humboldt County and the Bay Area, is on the verge of running out of cash. It’s been 12 years since any trains have made the trip from the city up to our area, and though it looks as if freight […]
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Zander’s Continuing Adventures
This week, former Redwood Region Economic Development Commission Executive Director Jeff Zander was scheduled to appear in an Iron County, Utah court of justice to face felony charges: nine counts of theft and forgery pertaining to a stolen checkbook belonging to his wife’s ex-husband. The alleged crimes, a relatively minor episode in Zander’s storied career […]
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Eye Blackened
There’s no love lost between the Arcata marijuana grow house scene and Kevin Hoover, editor/publisher of the Arcata Eye. As neighborhood backlash against grows increases, as police takedowns become ever more common, and as national media take unwelcome notice of the quirky little town with 1,000 indoor pot farms, growers have pinned their frustrations on […]
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Down and Dirty
A lawsuit was filed last week. It alleged, among other things, that Eureka City Manager Dave Tyson sexually propositioned a former employee of the Eureka Police Department while she was still in the city’s employ. It alleged, further, that Tyson had touched the employee “in a suggestive manner.” It alleged, further and somewhat murkily, that […]