Good news for the movers and shakers, those insufferable people who are always jetting off from ACV to points around the world: Starting in December, Horizon Air is going to offer direct flights both from and to beautiful Los Angeles! This is indubitably an upgrade of sorts. Used to be, to get to Lipstick City one was […]
Hank Sims
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Newman Responds to Osborn Campaign Finance Questions
Eureka City Council candidate Mike Newman didn’t respond to Journal freelancer John Osborn’s questions regarding campaign finance in time for this week’s story — apparently there was some miscommunication about deadline — but respond he did. His answers, along with Osborn’s questions, are below. 1. How much money do you plan on raising in this […]
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Confession
I hate many things, but there’s nothing I hate quite as much as the American voter. Election season, currently flaring up like the recurring case of gout that it is, reminds me of this depressing fact. I’m know I’m not alone in hating American politics. Everyone does. But people — mistakenly, in my view — […]
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Welcome, Market Square
There was a pretty impressive turnout at the dedication of Eureka’s new C Street Market Square earlier this morning, and why not? The square, located down at the bay, was the first-phase roll-out of the City’s biggest and most impressive new public space since the construction of the Boardwalk, which it borders. By this time […]
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Tea Party Math Dispute
Spotted earlier today at the ribbon-cutting for Eureka’s C Street Plaza, Rep. Mike Thompson presiding. EPD Chief Garr Nielsen says, “Whaaaaaat?”
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Highly Dubious and Probably Borderline Illegal Electioneering Bullshit of the Day
(First in a series of 12,954.) So when it comes time to publish its “Rotary Wheel” newsletter in the Times-Standard advertising pages, the Mad River Rotary Club apparently spotlights the good deeds of one of its members. I say “apparently,” because somehow the thing has escaped my eye before today. Well, completely coincidentally, yesterday the honor fell […]
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R.I.P. Rick Springer: Anti-Nuke Activist, Reagan Assaulter, Former Humboldter
Rick Springer protests at an anti-nuclear demonstration near the Nevada Test Site in 1992. Photo from Flickr user Mark Bult. Rick Springer, a former Humboldt County anti-nuclear activist who briefly became famous when he stormed a Ronald Reagan award speech in 1992, died Sunday earlier this week at his ranch in Gerlach, Nevada. He was […]
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Samoa Pulp Mill Officially Dead
Freshwater Tissue owner Bob Simpson made the announcement in a press release this morning. The last remaining pulp mill on the Samoa peninsula — a feature of the Humboldt County skyline for the last 50 years, for better and worse — will be parted out. MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 2010 – Samoa […]
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I Can’t Smoke 55
The California Highway Patrol pulled in a pretty good haul up in McKinleyville last night — $120,000 and 55 pounds of weed. The suspect is from Jamul, Calif. — apparently a real place. The CHP press release is below. (Reminder: Follow our @HumboldtCHP feed for other real-time dispatches from the local CHiPs.) On 09/21/2010, at […]
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The Town Downer
When he was preparing to move to France, the artist Robert Crumb filled his sketchbooks with drawings of steel telephone poles and industrial streetlamps, the webs of wire that crisscross over our heads wherever we walk. No one ever notices this visual noise, he said in the documentary Crumb, even though it surrounds us everywhere. […]
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Offsides!
Once again — see this week’s “Mailbox” — my neighbor Neal Latt upbraids the Journal for ideological impurity when it comes to matters Arklish. Here’s where it stands, in case you’re keeping score. I wrote a column positing that the great mass of Eureka voters were, are and forever will be indifferent to his tribe’s […]
