From the Humboldt County Public Health Office: A Humboldt County woman who tested positive for H1N1 Influenza died this morning in a local hospital. The resident, in her mid-50s, was reported to have no underlying medical conditions that would have exacerbated her illness. To protect her privacy, no additional information about her case will be […]
Hank Sims
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Dope and the Duped
Why is it that so few people are able to think with a clear head when it comes to the topic of the demon weed? After 40 years of cohabitation, you’d think we’d have a handle on what it is and isn’t. Yet discourse on the subject is even more loopy here than in the […]
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Oh, Snap, Arnold!
Too awesome not to blog. Did Gov. Schwarzenegger hide a crude coup de grace in his veto of a bill by Assm. Tom Ammiano? Sure looks like it, says Capitol Weekly! Here’s a direct link to the document in question.
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MLPA Effort Kills Blue Whale
MLPA Effort Kills Blue Whale: Fish reporter Dan Bacher writes that the blue whale that washed ashore in Fort Bragg earlier this week was in fact killed by private contractors mapping the sea for the controversial North Coast implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act. The contractors’ boat apparently struck the 72-foot whale — a […]
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Obama Not Unlike Fine Wine
In its exploration of President Barack Obama’s ill-deserved Nobel, this week’s The New Republic cites the academic work of Fieldbrook winemaker (and husband o’ Journal) Bob Hodgson. The Nobel Peace Prize is just as fraudulent as the blue ribbon wines defrocked by Hodgson, argues Jonathan Chait.
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At the ‘Stop Police Brutality’ Protest
management. The Journal ‘s Andrew Goff reports: At 2:15 a group of about 50 protesters led by Verbena and made up mostly of teens marched to the gazebo for “Days of Action Against Police Brutality”. They will be landing at several Eureka sites today ending at Eureka City Hall for a candlelit vigil for Chris […]
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Dr. Rudi Becking, 1923-2009
Alliance.Dr. Rudi Becking, 1923-2009: Groundbreaking HSU forestry professor Rudolph Becking has died, according to the campus news service. In the 1970s, Becking was a minority voice for ecological responsibility in forestry
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Last Week’s News
hortly after we went to press last week it came to our attention — and to the public’s attention, generally — that the City of Eureka had recently signed an indemnification agreement with the Security National subsidiary that is proposing to build the Marina Center project next to Eureka’s Old Town. In the agreement, the […]
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Harbor District Debate Underway
Listen on KHSU (90.5 FM) or watch it on KEET (Channel 13).
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County’s Second H1N1 Death
From the Humbodlt County Office of Public Health, which adds only that the man died at Arcata’s Mad River Hospital: Local man’s death believed to be related to H1N1 A man who tested positive for H1N1 Influenza died Wednesday in a Humboldt County hospital. Officials report he had underlying health conditions, and the precise cause […]
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Our Cable Debut!
We haven’t yet seen Pot City USA , the new documentary on Arcata that A&E debuted last night, but boy oh boy is this YouTube excerpt ever thrilling! This thing looks AWESOME! And hey, what’s this we see 24 seconds in? Seriously, though — ” Disorientation Week ”? That was two years ago! We suspect […]