Worried about that huge padlock that may be clamped onto the entrance to Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park once — if — the guvnr shuts ‘er down, along with 47 other beloved state parks across California? That’s his idea, as part of a budget nip that critics say will save little but wound many. Well, […]
Heidi Walters
Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.
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Neighbors
By now, we’re all thoroughly bored with the cute story about the neighborly squabble in Sunnyvale over some redwood trees on one side of the property line that swallowed whole some solar panels on the other side of the property line. Or shaded them out or whatever. Most of the press chuckled a bit while […]
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That’ll speech ’em.
Seems the stuffy old TriMet folks — you know (or perhaps you don’t), the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon — have refused to let the Karuk Tribe run a decidedly anti-Klamath-dams ad on their public buses. So today the Karuk, ACLU and Friends of the River turned around and slapped TriMet with a free […]
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Del McCoury Band
Live Feb. 8 at the Van Duzer Theater If a creek could gather itself together into human form and walk onto a stage to pour forth its voice it would sound like the Del McCoury Band. There, the clear, crisp water pattering over hard rocks, merry and relentless as Rob McCoury’s banjo headed pellmell toward […]
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Damages
"We’re looking for the smoking gun. I think Ross Swimmer had a lot to do with it. I also think there might be a Klamath connection. But that’s all pure speculation." — Clifford Lyle Marshall, Hoopa Valley Tribe Chairman The trouble with you non-Indian people — especially the media — says the Hupa man on […]
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Wynton, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and socks
John Chapman’s photos from Monday night’s show at the Van Duzer almost say it all: Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra were smooth, cool, swingin’ in that sophisticated old style that some folks in the audience likely were lucky enough to experience first-hand and in-time — that is, back in the traditional jazz […]
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Communication Dept.
It would be easy at this moment in HSU’s history — surprisingly fat with increased enrollment as the spring semester freshly sprouts, but also in belt-tightening mode to cover a lingering deficit — to assume that any tales of overstuffed classes and enormous waiting lists has directly to do with this happy-sad situation. One might […]
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Care for an Éclair?
Goodbye, sugarpie About five or six years ago — he can’t quite remember when — Dr. Leo Leer and his colleagues at Eureka Family Practice turned a cold shoulder to the hordes of pharmaceutical company salespeople — drug reps — who hitherto had had free rein in their office. No longer could a well-heeled, uberfriendly, […]
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Jesus Christ Superstar
Live performance at HSU’s Van Duzer Theatre, Jan. 8. The night lurked, heavy with portent, as a sickly white substance filtered through the theater’s airspace and settled ever so lightly about the seated audience, who breathed in and breathed out. In. Out. The lights were still on, so this was odd: Every particle of mysterious […]
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‘Fish and chips’
After two years of sometimes tense discussion, the 26 disparate stakeholders participating in the Klamath Basin settlement talks released a proposed agreement Tuesday that they say provides for the diverse needs of irrigators, fishermen and Indian tribes. Craig Tucker of the Karuk Tribe is calling the Proposed Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement a "fish and chips […]
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Election time
Last Thursday night, inside the slightly musty old hall of the Labor Temple in Eureka, about a dozen employees from Northcoast Children’s Services gathered at a long table with a couple of representatives from the California Federation of Teachers. The reps had driven up that day from San Francisco through a winter storm that cleared […]
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No Debate
Film fans, do not be alarmed: Charlie is out of town for the week, but he shall return! We also happen to know he is in a land barren of palatable movie offerings, a land desicate of modern culture, a land so pure as the driven snow as to be devoid of all cultural ambition […]