Dave Meserve started thinking about the influence military recruiters exert on young people in the community a couple of years ago. He was sitting in a coffee shop one morning when a recruiter walked in with three high school-aged girls. “He bought them sweet coffee drinks,” the former Arcata City Councilmember recalled in an interview […]
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House Poor
The Redwood Curtain wasn’t thick enough to insulate Raul Merezko from the country’s subprime mortgage crisis. According to public documents obtained from the Humboldt County Recorder’s Office, Merezko — chosen at random from a list of over 80 individuals who have lost their homes for nonpayment sinceJan. 1, 2007 — bought his home in a […]
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Crab TV?
Is Humboldt County not thinking out of the box enough in terms of economic development? or out of the crab pot in this case? The International Herald Tribune has an article about a reality TV show about crab fishermen that’s taking viewers by storm, literally: Dutch Harbor, a fishing port in this town on a […]
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PALCO Bankruptcy
The California Report shines its light northward and takes a closer look at the PALCO bankruptcy proceedings. Listen to today’s show here: audio player
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T-S Puts Positive Spin on Police Raid
The Times-Standard is running a piece today on a yesterday’s drug raid by the Humboldt Drug Task Force and the Eureka Police Department in the 300 block of West Del Norte Street. That’s City Councilman Larry Glass’ neck of the woods. And the article mentions a recent community meeting Glass organized which included the Eureka […]
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My Left Slipper
If you didn’t know already, next Wednesday, April 9, Soroptomist International will be holding a fundraiser, “Take a Walk in Her Shoes,” to give prominent male members of the community an inkling of what it’s like to be a woman — or at least to know what it feels like to wear high heels. (For […]
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Cell Theory
Between 5:15 p.m. and 7:02 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2007, Martin Cotton’s final hours were recorded unpoetically in the Humboldt County Correctional Facilities observation log: 1715 hours Admitted — Extremely combative 1738 hours Moving — OK 1752 hours Talking / Moving OK 1755 hours Moving 1807 hours Breathing / Moved […]
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Siskiyou Sups Vote No on Dam Removal
In a meeting last night, Siskiyou County supervisors voted unanimously to oppose the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River — three of those dams are in Siskiyou County proper. The board also opposes the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement. County representatives have been present at the settlement talks over the past two years […]
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Poetry Reading at HSU
On Thursday, April 3, at 3 p.m. there will be a “multi-cultural” poetry reading at the HSU library on the second floor in the “Fishbowl Room”. Poets who will be reading include Mary Hope Whitehead Lee, Daryl Chinn, Marlon Sherman, Dick Stull, Barbara Curiel, Jerry Martien and Mark Shikuma. Enjoy!
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Yreka, Why Now?
Tomorrow Siskiyou County supervisors will vote on a resolution to oppose the removal of hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. The county may also decide to opt out of the Klamath settlement agreement altogether. Representatives from Siskiyou County have been involved in the talks over the past two years — although, at first they weren’t […]
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Martin Cotton Redux
Between 5:15 p.m. and 7:02 p.m. on August 9, 2007, Martin Cotton’s final hours were recorded unpoetically in the Humboldt County Correctional Facilities observation log: 1715 hours ———– Admitted – Extremely combative 1738 hours ———- Moving – OK 1752 hours ———- Talking / Moving OK 1755 hours ———- Moving 1807 hours ——— Breathing / Moved […]
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Remembering Three Mile Island and the New Nuclear Renaissance
Apropos of last week’s cover story in the Journal , “The Not-So-Peaceful Atom,” today’s Morning Edition on NPR features two stories on the nuclear industry: One is about Three Mile Island’s efforts to extend their license, which looks like it’s going to happen, and the other is about the nuclear renaissance underway in the United […]