Who didn’t think it would come to this? The Environmental Protection Information Center, Friends of the Eel and Californians for Alternatives to Toxins, as well as two Marin County environmental groups, today announced their intention to file an amicus brief in the City of Novato’s lawsuit against the North Coast Railroad Authority. The environmental groups’ […]
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Grow Houses and Cloned Redwoods
Strange story in the New York Times this morning about an effort to clone the biggest and most impressive redwood trees, so that they may be planted in groves around the world. Apparently they’ve been planting freak redwood forests here and there for years now: One of the largest nonnative redwood forests is near Rotorua, […]
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Chilling New Theory
Over at Rambling Jack’s Laboratory, McKinleyville Press editor/publisher Jack Durham clinically lays out the evidence in the case of the recent Klamath Ox Kill. What you see may disturb you. Better not let the kids click through.
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Morning Papers
Two Peoples, One Place, the new Humboldt County history by Ray Raphael and Freeman House, gets a great review in the San Francisco Chronicle. (The NCJ had the honor of launching the book last month.) Balloon Track East? Local kazillionaire Rob Arkley’s company, Security National, is developing a 130-acre industrial park in Plympton, Mass., according […]
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Thanks and No Thanks
If this were any place but here, local reporters would be getting out of bed at 4 a.m. this Friday morning, dragging themselves down to Wal-Mart and waiting in line with the consumers eager to get their hands on cheap X-Mas geegaws. The reporter would examine the minds and wallets of these citizens, and with […]
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Added To Pipe
Humboldt Blogs blogfeed users, please extend a big blogthing welcome to: The mysterious Kym K, aka The Redheaded Blackbelt. Our scenester pals at the Arcata Eye.
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Lame Excuses
Many apologies for the sporadic posts. Truth is, we’re all working on some massively awesome things that we’re gonna unleash on your head next week and all throughout the month of December. Trust me — cool stuff coming up in the paper. Take that to the bank, sucka. Meanwhile, we just put our annual Gift […]
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Hundred Flowers Bloom
The big headlines from last week’s Bay District election focused on the McKinleyville area, and rightly so. Up there, port development skeptic and fisheries biologist Pat Higgins utterly crushed 16-year incumbent Charles Ollivier, perhaps the loudest voice in favor of the dubious proposal to bring mass industry back to Humboldt Bay (see “Views of the […]
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Estelle Fennell Announces
The worst-kept secret in Humboldt County is officially out of the bag. In a decidedly Colbertian move, former KMUD Newsgoddess Estelle Fennell announced this afternoon that she will soon be announcing her candidacy for the Second District Board of Supervisors’ seat. Where: Redway Fire Department Building, 155 Empire Ave. Redway When: Monday November 12 th […]
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Backwoods Brawling
I never claimed to be omniscient. The record will show that a speaker at the Oct. 9 Board of Supervisors’ meeting, at which the board voted to institute a moratorium on new homes in areas zoned for timber production, issued a warning. Don’t believe it, this person said. The county now says that they only […]
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Post-Election Interviews
This morning our Japhet Weeks conducted brief telephone interviews with each of the candidates in yesterday’s Bay District* elections. Here they are: Pat Higgins: audio player Charles Ollivier: audio player Roy Curless: audio player Carlos Quilez: audio player Steven Morris: audio player *Note: This time around, we made the conscious decision to switch to the […]
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RIP Hobart (details on memorial “Celebration of Life”)
Hobart Brown, Glorious Founder of the Kinetic Sculpture race , died of pneumonia last night at Redwood Memorial Hospital. He was 73. UPDATE: Here’s a beautifully written, three-page press release from Kinetic Universe , the organization that put on the race last year. Hobart Brown was born in Hess, Oklahoma to a fifteen-year-old mother who […]