Last week Eureka kazillionaire Rob Arkley called up, as he does periodically when he wants to give a tip of the hat or a wag of the finger. "Nice fluff piece on the NEC!" he said with a laugh, referring to last week’s cover story about the new Northcoast Environmental Center. "When am I going […]
Hank Sims
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For your information
Last month, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) was dining at Charlie Palmer Steak House – that echt-D.C. eatery – when a fellow patron started choking on her meal. According to the Napa Valley Register, Thompson noticed the diner’s contortions, hung up his cell phone and rushed to administer the Heimlich. After four or five thrusts, […]
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Larger than life
"Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall, for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire the one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I suggest, ’tis because of the Scale of the Crime.- What we of the Mobility love to watch, is any of the Great Matices, Greed, […]
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Peanut gallery
‘Bloodbath On Buhner St.’ ‘Seaport Satirist Shocker’ ‘Bombastic Blogger Is City’s Legal Beagle’ Yes, everyone has most likely already heard the news, seeing as how it prompted a local media blitz the likes have which have not been seen for about a year (nearly to the day, in fact). The enigmatic blogger previously known as […]
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Home Cooking
The actors, the characters and the plot are all long forgotten, but there’s one scene of a movie that has stuck with me. A man – a chef, or at least a good cook – is world-weary and physically exhausted, but hungry. He goes to the refrigerator and pulls out a steak. He takes out […]
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Nielsen Rated
Friday afternoon at the Adorni Center, a brilliant spring day. Seals swam up and down the harbor, clearly visible from the great glass wall on the north side of the big multipurpose room. It was a momentous day. Inside, 37 sworn officers of the Eureka Police Department – just about the entire force, except for […]
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Tim’s Books
It was a melancholy time on the Northcoast Environmental Center’s front porch last Friday. Volunteers had set up three or four folding tables, and on each of them they had placed hundreds of books. These were the books that didn’t sell at a big booksale the weekend previous. Now they were selling for 25 cents […]
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Boys making noise
This case is not going to languish very long," said Corpus Christi attorney Shelby Jordan, representing the Maxxam Corp.’s interests at the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy trial Friday morning. "Everyone who comes here is aware that you’re in and out with all due speed." Ho, was that a slip of the tongue, counselor? You meant it […]
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Cabinet of curiosities
No news, no news, no news from Corpus Christi. The dispatches from the massive Pacific Lumber bankruptcy trial have been few of late, mostly because Judge Richard S. Schmidt, the Texas judge in whose lap the Maxxam Corp. placed its failed subsidiary, has been slow to judge whether or not to bend to the overwhelming […]
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Old business
We’re going to take a quick spin in the Wayback Machine this week, going back in time one year. Spring, 2006. Heady times. If you remember rightly, there was a lot going on back then. What we want to know today is: What ever became of that? A couple of months prior to our target […]
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Nattering nabobs
Oh, puhleeze. That’s about the only conceivable response to the Eureka Reporter‘s hyperventilating editorial last Saturday, in which reporter John Driscoll and his employer, the Times-Standard, are made to stand in the dock while charges of unethical conduct are read out against them. To recap, briefly: Driscoll had been covering the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case, […]
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Fuzzy logic
The Humboldt Watershed Council organized it, and two labor organizations have since signed on as co-sponsors – the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment and the Humboldt-Del Norte Central Labor Council. We’re talking about the workshop happening this Friday night at the Fortuna Riverlodge, 6-8 p.m.: "Bankruptcy 101: Understanding the Palco Chapter 11 Case." […]