On Monday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a compact with the Wiyot Tribe that would enable the tribe to gather $3-5 million a year in gaming revenue from a tribal casino in Madera County, in the Sierra Foothills. The casino, to be developed and managed by Station Casinos of Nevada, would be built on land that […]
Heidi Walters
Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.
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Fear in the Hills
"There’s more people that are not in this room, who are out in the hall and spilled out into the street — I’m not saying they’ve got pitchforks, but there’s people out there who are really, really concerned about this and they’re not going to go away. … This code enforcement program is completely out […]
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The old wall of words
Harvey Jossem was born on April 15, 1930 — he would have turned 78 this Tuesday. But Jossem died, of natural causes, on Dec. 28, leaving behind his tiny, time-frayed little green house on an unnamed dirt street in northeast Eureka, four cats, a handful of friends and caregivers and stacks and stacks of personal […]
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Take back the day
All this week, Humboldt State has been hosting a series of Take Back the Night functions. You could silkscreen a T-shirt on Sunday, do some dance therapy on Monday afternoon then map out patriarchy in the evening, engage in a roundtable discussion about gender violence on Tuesday, partake of some end-the-violence-and-rape-culture theater on Wednesday, maybe […]
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Edible Braille
Tired of being thwarted in your quest for a dignified meal in a restaurant because you can’t read the damned menu? Well, the LightHouse of the North Coast wants you to know that it has teamed up with the Humboldt Council of the Blind and other groups to provide free Braille and large-print menus to three […]
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He’s big in Bishopville
You know you’ve been waiting for this update: Remember at the end of March when we reported that Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi had gone to South Carolina to investigate strange happenings in the land of the Lizard Man? Yes, well, he’s telling folks there that his hi-sci monitoring leads him to believe that they’ve “got the […]
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Update: CR’s accreditation
College of the Redwoods has had its share of mortifying news of late, including a leaky pool that’s been contributing unwelcome chlorine to the watershed, the subsequent closure of the pool (which left a swim team and many students high and dry) and a major scrap over the administration’s decision to replace some redwood-clad buildings […]
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Condor big time
Used to be, California condors sailed the western skies from Baja to Canada. Now just 148 hunker down in captivity and another 136 exist tenuously in the wild — 63 of them in California, mostly in Southern California although some live up around Hollister at Pinnacles National Monument. But someday we may see the […]
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Bigfoot’s Boring
You remember Tom Biscardi, the guy who scrapped, most unfortunately, with Coast to Coast AM’s George Noory in the fall of 2005 after claiming he had a Bigfoot in captivity in Stagecoach, Nev.? (You can read the synopsis of all that fun nonsense here .) Well, the man’s temporarily gone off Bigfoot — such a […]
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Global warming? Whatever.
OK, first of all, the results of a new public opinion poll on global warming attitudes, reported on here, would seem to imply that nobody’s phone in worried-central Humboldt County rang during the pollsters’ phone survey. The survey found that the more people learn about global warming, the more apt they are to slip into […]
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Fish In The City
On a half-overcast day in early spring, environmental scientists Scott Bauer and Gordon Leppig get into a big, white, double-cab pickup with the California Department of Fish and Game logo on its door. Bauer starts the engine and steers the truck out of the parking lot of the DFG’s Eureka offices in Old Town, and […]
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Klam Dam-Blam Angers Bucket Man
Meanwhile, in the dry uplands to our east, another supervisorial race has grumbled into low gear with one Leo Bergeron, a long-time Siskiyou County rancher, insurance salesman and genuine Bucket Brigadier, tossing his cap into the ring for the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors’ First District seat. It was the latest Klamath River restoration agreement […]