… unless you’ve already seen it somewhere else. This is the Internet’s next big thing, mark my words. Just in time, too — LOLcats are so mid-to-late-2007. Visit Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle now. And then prepare for the next six months of everyone talking about Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle and its […]
Hank Sims
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‘Til Tuesday
The Board cannot state more ardently the importance of Redwood Memorial Hospital and keeping the hospital operating. They’re throwing around a lot of money over there at the County of Humboldt. Perhaps they should think about hiring an editor. They do come cheap. The sentence above was taken from a draft letter from the Board […]
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The $100,000 Club
If there’s one thing we’ve learned in the last couple of days, it’s this: Working for the County of Humboldt can be a very lucrative proposition. Last week the Journal filed a Public Records Act request seeking the salaries of every county employee. In the request, we piggybacked off a California Supreme Court decision handed […]
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Your Tuesday Tedium
In other words, what’s on at the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and the Eureka City Council next week. We’re going to try to make this a regular Friday afternoon feature on the Blogthing. As a way to make those hellishly painful final hours of the work-week even more painful, we will delve deep into […]
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Jimmy’s In
No surprise — First District Supervisor Jimmy Smith announced today that he’ll be running for reelection this year. When first elected to serve, I made a commitment to get things done and treat people with respect. We have worked cooperatively with tribes, cities, the county, local organizations and state and federal agencies to achieve success. […]
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The Cram-down
It’s now been just over a year since the Pacific Lumber Co. and its various subsidiaries declared bankruptcy in a backwater courthouse in Corpus Christi, Texas. The past 12 months have mostly kept us both appalled and entertained. It was thrilling to watch the high-flying legal stuntwork deployed by the team over at Palco’s parent […]
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Daily Dose of Weird
I couldn’t tell you what it means — probably nothing — but does anyone else find it odd that mikeforsupervisor.org is hosted on the same server as the City of Arcata’s official website ? They’re housemates over at 72.51.37.112, an address on Sustainable Hosting ‘s air-powered server farm. Small world.
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Woolley Bows Out
Third District Supervisor John Woolley will not seek a fifth fourth term in office, according to a press released issued today. During the remainder of my term, I will continue to focus my efforts on the important issues facing our County. These include stabilizing services to meet the needs of the people of Humboldt County […]
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A Standardized Test
Faced with dueling press conferences, yesterday we wondered — how many notables would attend the California Education Coalition’s emergency summit on the proposed $4.8 billion cuts to K-12 education? And how many would instead head over to Democratic Central Committee HQ for the Patty Berg-Wes Chesbro lovefest? Well, this reader-submitted photo tells the tale. At […]
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booyakasha!
Get out your calculators, y’all — it’s raining money ! Congress just signed on to the daft plan to cut a big fat check to everyone in the nation with earned income (sorry, Tad — 🙁 .) Looks like we’ll all be getting ours in May. We’re talking $600 per person, and $300 for each […]
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Push Comes To Shove
Via the Times-Standard: The California Attorney General’s Office said today it has officially declined to pursue charges against local businessman Rob Arkley stemming from Eureka City Councilman Larry Glass’ allegations that Arkley assaulted him on Sept. 5. “There was insufficient evidence to bring charges and, of course, we treated the matter seriously and looked meticulously […]
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Good God, Part II
Is it just our imagination, or are these kinds of things happening a lot more frequently of late? Eureka Police officers were dispatched to a residence in the 2500 block of K Street Tuesday at approximately 6:50 p.m. for a report of a burglary, assault with a firearm, and brandishing a firearm. Unknown suspects gained […]