It wasn’t enough that Bill had caught an almost 28-pound lingcod that afternoon: It had a head the size and shape of a bulldog, and he strained to hoist it above his shoulders for the cheesy, but required, photograph of a grinning hunter and his vanquished prey. Instead, he kept thinking about the fish he […]
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Lost in Translation
Wu Yulun wants to be a C.E.O. when he grows up. His parents are successful real estate developers in a large Chinese city. His father – already the C.E.O. of his own company – drives a Ferrari, his mother a Maserati. Little Wu has traveled all over the world – from Italy to Singapore. But […]
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Slow Burn
ORLEANS — The drive from the North Coast to Orleans is a long, slow, winding one across three Indian reservations belonging to the Hoopa Valley, the Yurok and the Karuk tribes. At the end of last week, it was also a progressively smokier one, beginning just west of Willow Creek and worsening through Weitchpec and […]
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The Iceman Cometh
Spanish translation by Larry and Ana Maria Mease Alejandro couldn’t have been all that surprised when on the afternoon of Monday, June 9, his employer, Sun Valley Floral Farms, told him not to come to work the next day. The flower growers had received a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a week earlier […]
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Recursos Inmigrantes
Banco de Comida de Eureka 307 West 14th Street (707) 445-3166 Cajas de comida gratuitas los días miercoles y viernes. Llame después de las 9 a.m. los días miércoles y viernes para una cita este mismo día entre las 12:30 y las 4 p.m.. Traiga una identificación para cada miembro de la familia con la […]
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Viaje a la Noche
Edición bilingüe! Traducido por Larry y Ana Maria Mease. Alejandro no podría haber estado muy sorprendido cuando Sun Valley Floral Farmsle informó que no regresara a trabajar al día siguiente. La compañía había recibido una carta de la oficina de “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)” (Inmigración y Aduanas) la semana anterior identificando en su nómina […]
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Will the dams come down?
A recent AP story reports that the U.S. government and PacifiCorp are involved in talks that may eventually lead to a plan for dam removal on the Klamath River: PacifiCorp, the federal government and the states of Oregon and California are in talks over how to resolve a proposal to remove four hydroelectric dams on […]
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Crude Figures
Last Wednesday Shelly O’Brien climbed up a rickety old ladder in front of her one-pump, two-nozzle gas station on Myrtle Avenue in Eureka and raised the price of regular unleaded 14 cents to $4.52 per gallon. "Maybe one of these days I’ll be rich enough I can buy myself a new ladder," O’Brien joked on […]
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NCJ Exclusive: ICE in Sun Valley
Sun Valley Floral Farms let go of 283 undocumented workers today after receiving a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week indicating that the employees — from flower pickers to management-level staff — were not eligible for employment in the United States. Sun Valley President and CEO Lane DeVries met with his entire […]
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Ends Meet
"Animals are my passion. Animals are my life … Animals are my reason for being," Jennifer Raymond told me as we stood in the shade of an outbuilding at the Mad River Stables in Arcata at the tail end of the recent heat wave. Raymond founded the Humboldt Spay/Neuter Network and her enthusiasm for animals […]
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Wars Remembered
“Well, maybe a dream it was / It’s really hard to tell / But if it’s not, I’d just survived / The very depths of Hell.” So ends the next-to-last section of a 15-part poetic rumination on the Vietnam War written by Blue Ox Millworks founder and Vietnam vet Eric Hollenbeck. You probably haven’t read […]