Nine precincts reporting out of 132. Bass loses some edge. 15,180 votes counted. The next report is going to be much bigger. ASSESSOR Brooks: 21.93% Wilson: 40.49% Rodoni: 37.49% DISTRICT ATTORNEY Bryson: 5.80% Jackson: 38.43% Gallegos: 36.51% Hagen: 19.18% SHERIFF Downey: 66.67% Hislop: 33.07% FOURTH DISTRICT Bass: 50.31% Neely: 30.31% Leonard: 19.02% FIFTH DISTRICT (no […]
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… and the Food
Pat Higgins: Bob Doran, no slouch in these matters, reports insane, off-the-hook eats at the Higgins HQ — BBQ ribs, potato salad, homemade ice cream. Cleary: Chips and guac. Sundberg: Shrimp, fruit, chicken wings, onion rings and meatballs, says Ahron Sherman. Hislop: Pizza and crudites, says Ryan Burns. Neely:Modestly semifancy spread, pizzas and provolone basil thingy […]
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Reacting to the First Results
Bonnie Neely reads the first election results at Brick & Fire, Eureka. Photo by Heidi Walters “It’s still early. I’m still in the race.” — Patrick Cleary. “This is my first time, but it’s good to be ahead.” — Ryan Sundberg “Ooh — Downey’s taken a lead.” — Mike Hislop, reading the results “It’s still […]
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First Results
UPDATE: John Osborn phones in the first results — 11,477 absentee votes counted. Bass, Downey take big leads. UPDATE 2: John Osborn calls back and says that there was some sort of garbled communication in his first report: Actually, there were 13,898 votes counted in this round (percentages all the same). He says that Elections is […]
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Aperitif
The first results will be coming in in minutes. Here’s a couple of photos from the Fourth District to whet our appetites: “Thank you to everyone on our Campaign Team!” said Jeff Leonard in an e-mail to supporters this morning. “We had lots of fun, and we STAYED POSITIVE! I had lots of fun campaigning in […]
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Get Your Election Predictions!
That time again! Most of you have already voted, being who you are, so it’s time to kick back with another round of the Town Dandy’s Official Election Predictions. There have been pretty good years and pretty bad years, and I make no promises as to which this will be. As David Letterman used to […]
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Like Unto the Phoenix!
After two hours of mortal terror and deep existential crisis on the part of your humble sysadmin, this Web site is back. Sorry for the interruption. Apologies, too, if you posted a comment sometime in the last day and now find that it has gone missing. Feel free to repost. I’m outta here.
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Humboldt Politics: Not So Bad, Comparatively Speaking
Tonight’s episode of The Best Show on WFMU turned me on to the eyeball-popping horror of Alabama politics. Little did I know — it seems that there’s a whole Internet subculture devoted to collecting election ads from America’s most troubled state. Let’s take a tour around Alabama’s 2010 political season. Here’s the ultimate attack ad […]
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For the Glory
As regards our earlier correction regarding Kinetic (non)debauchery at Crab Park: We see now how that mistake was made. In short, it must have been a completely different pyrotechnic party that we attended at Crab Park last year during the Kinetic Sculpture camp-out. While the riders were down the beach, tucked snugly in their sleeping bags, […]
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Gunman Reported at Mad River Hospital
Mad River Community Hospital, United Indian Health Services and Pacific Union school are currently on lockdown, following reports of a man with a gun at the hospital. APD officers, backed up by other area law enforcement, are on the scene. A KHUM listener sent the station audio of the robocall that went out to Arcata […]
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Swiping at the Air
On one point, anyway, it’s easy to agree with all the folks who stood up at last week’s Eureka City Council meeting and pleaded for that body to put a critical zoning change for the Balloon Track property to a vote of the people — it’s long past time for the question of that property’s […]
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Carolling Praise for the Eye
“Kevin L. Hoover (is) an existential hero, the last moral man in a corrupt universe, walking the semi-corrupt streets of Arcata, observing without judging, until he decides the hell with it, I’m going to judge.” — John Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle