The New Yorker ‘s “Winter Fiction” issue was just published; it contains a couple of eye-opening pieces by and about one of Humboldt County’s most notable writers of fiction: Raymond Carver. In an unsigned essay , the magazine reveals that what we have come to think of as Carver’s ultra-sparse style was actually the work […]
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The Christmas Vibe
Our food writer Joseph Byrd, who moonlights as a music instructor at College of the Redwoods, sends along notice of the following seasonal recording made by a friend, Seattle-based vibraphonist Tom Collier. Notes Joseph: Ed Macan, himself an excellent vibes player, says it was done with four mallets in one pass, no overdub. So now […]
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KMUD Is Frickin’ Awesome
Usually it so happens that my Sunday Mendo-Humboldt runs are timed absolutely perfectly, radio-wise. From Willits to about Bell Springs, I catch the tail end of “La Hora Mixteca” , the coolest program on the coolest public radio network in the USA. The program is jam-packed with boppin’ chilenitas , heartfelt cross-border shout-outs and hosts […]
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More Millions For The Railroad
The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reports that on Thursday the California Transportation Commission released an additional $13.6 million to the North Coast Railroad Authority. The money will be used to fund repairs in Sonoma and Marin counties. According to the P-D, the NCRA says the money is enough to open a 60-mile stretch of the south […]
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Times-Standard Blogland
Our semi-esteemed colleagues at the Times-Standard have dived back into the Internet, launching or relaunching a whole slew of blogs. Check out T-S Online Editor James Faulk’s convocation here. A convenient time to rain down fire on the enemy Eureka Reporter. Kick ’em while they’re down, James! Unfo, each of the 10 T-S blogs has […]
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Burly, But Not Yet Burly Enough
Hella shredding news for the long-dreamed-of Eureka Skate Park. The Havasu News-Herald (don’t ask) reports that the Tony Hawk Foundation has kicked down with a $25,000 grant. Now for the buzzkill. Check this Nov. 21 Eureka Reporter article : But roughly $250,000 is still needed for to project to be a go, to reach the […]
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Barf Bag
Everything we know we learned from the norovirus: The present writer considers himself fortunate not to be numbered among those who suffered from the dreaded viral outbreak that swept across the county last week. From what we can gather, norovirus plays out like a scene from 28 Days Later — disease-crazed infectees running around the […]
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New Sheriff At FPPC
There’s an interesting article in last week’s Capitol Weekly about the new chairman of the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission, the state agency that oversees California’s money-in-politics regulations. The new guy looks pretty burly: The FPPC, spawned by the Watergate scandals, is the state’s political watchdog (although few at the FPPC like that term) with […]
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EPD Brass Arraigned
Lt. Tony Zanotti testifying in the coroner’s inquest into the death of Cheri Lyn Moore . Drawing by K. Rudin. Press release just in from the District Attorney’s Office: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2007 Retired Chief of Police David Douglas and Eureka Police Lieutenant Anthony Zanotti appeared for arraignment today in Department 8 of […]
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Ouch
The November 2007 issue of the Humboldt Economic Index is out. The above graph represents seasonally-adjusted lumber production in the county — 55 percent of total manufacturing employment, according to the Index’s authors. And slipping rapidly, apparently. In other Economic Index news: Home prices continue to drop , though home sales rallied somewhat.
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Monday Morning Papers
The Chronicle reports that Humboldt State is now the last member of the California State University system to have no building named for private donors. Probably not for lack of trying. A new history — Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans — is reviewed in the Chicago Tribune . According to the review, […]
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Klamath Dams = Toxic Waste?
That’s the argument being advanced by Klamath Riverkeeper and the Yurok and Karuk tribes in a $1 billion lawsuit filed yesterday. The Associated Press gives the rationale: The argument is that the Iron Gate and Copco dams south of the Oregon border in Northern California create the perfect conditions for the toxic algae Microcystis aeruginosa […]