A Reuters/Ipsos poll released today shows that support for this November’s Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana in the state, is slightly trailing but within the survey’s margin of error — 48 percent for, 50 percent against, with a 4 percent margin.
Hank Sims
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Crime and Politics
Today’s Times-Standard alerts us to the fact that the latest edition of California Department of Justice’s crime statistics for the year 2009 have just been released. That, plus a similar release from the FBI, tells us that it’s time to update the chart we published back at the beginning of May, in response to one of […]
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Ronald Reagan: The Humboldt Years
“[T]his is Reagan country and (applause), YEAH! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California’s Eureka College would become so woven within and inter-linked to the Golden State.” — Fox News Personality Sarah Palin, addressing a crowd at CSU Stanislaus College of the Redwoods, which must get this every once in […]
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Movin’ On Up
Last week took me on a loop around the greater Bay Area. The trip was a chance to reacquaint myself with the lives of our urban cousins, which are markedly different than our own. I hit both the bright spots (Oakland, Monterey) and the dim (Livermore, Vallejo). Travel, at its best, can give one some […]
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Fargas Family Bust
Above: Humboldt County’s beloved Fargas Family Band, doing one of their signature sets. Everyone — everyone — loves a Fargas Family show. Below: The Anderson Valley Advertiser reports that bandleader Angel Fargas was recently on trial in Mendocino County, after having been busted with 70 pounds of weed. FREE ANGEL FARGAS!
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McMenamins on the March!
We came to them on bended knee and they coyly rebuffed us. But the Portland Business Journal today delivers proof that the fabulous McMenamins hotel/pub/restaurant chain is still expanding, despite their coquettish protests to the contrary! Draft McMenamins for the Eureka Inn!
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DUI or Don’t I?
An anonymous tipster sent us a note and some documents Friday at 3:45 p.m. — shortly before quitting time, well after last week’s paper went to bed and just a few days before Tuesday’s election. The tip, as you all now know, was that Ryan Sundberg, candidate for supervisor from the Fifth District, was arrested […]
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FINAL REPORT
Fifth District RYAN SUNDBERG: 39.43% JEFFREY LYTLE: 3.41% PATRICK CLEARY: 30.58% PAT HIGGINS: 26.46% District Attorney KATHLEEN BRYSON: 4.61% ALLISON JACKSON: 37.03% PAUL V. GALLEGOS: 39.72% PAUL HAGEN: 18.53% Assessor JON BROOKS: 26.08% MARI WILSON: 39.31% JOHANNA RODONI: 34.48% Fourth District VIRGINIA BASS: 48.83% BONNIE NEELY: 30.43% JEFF LEONARD: 20.43% Sheriff MIKE DOWNEY: 66.64% MICHAEL […]
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Fifth Report
Half the precincts in. McK, SoHum, Arcata still uncounted. ASSESSOR Brooks: 23.85% Wilson: 39.42% Rodoni: 36.60% DISTRICT ATTORNEY Bryson: 5.04% Jackson: 39.23% Gallegos: 37.20% Hagen: 18.41% SHERIFF Downey: 66.66% Hislop: 33.09% FIFTH DISTRICT Sundberg: 43.81% Lytle: 4.37% Cleary: 28.17% Higgins: 23.59%
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Elections Web Site Dead
“They’re trying to fix it, but no time frame,” reports John Osborn.
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FOURTH REPORT
40 out of 132 precincts. Fourth District all in. Next report: Arcata, FTA. 20,354 — 26.63% of registered voters. There are still more votes out there for the Fourth District — other mail-in ballots that will not be counted tonight — so there is still a very slim possibility that Virginia Bass could grab this […]
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Third Report
Only four more precincts left to report in the Fourth District — Virginia Bass could possibly lock it up tonight. 31 out of 132 precincts reporting. FOURTH DISTRICT BASS: 48.42% NEELY: 30.82% LEONARD: 20.45% FIFTH DISTRICT (NOTHING NEW) SHERIFF Downey: 66.15% Hislop: 33.59% DA Bryson: 5.35% Jackson: 38.29% Gallegos: 37.21% Hagen: 19.06% ASSESSOR: Brooks: 22.86% […]