According to the Sacramento Bee, the Van Eck Forest, which has sold carbon credits in the past to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, “logged” its largest sale to date recently. Natsource Asset Management LLC, a New York firm that deals in credits for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and […]
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Does the house always win?
By Japhet Weeks Big labor and big gambling are clashing this year in California’s most expensive proposition fight to date. On Feb. 5, voters will decide whether or not to ratify four Indian gaming compacts that were passed by the California state legislature last summer, signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and approved by […]
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Fire Contained at Humboldt State
A fire broke out earlier today in Old Music Building 8A on the Humboldt State University campus. The cause of the fire is still unknown. At 1:30 p.m. HSU faculty noticed smoke coming from a locked custodial closet in the music building, according to HSU spokesman Paul Mann. After the fire alarm was pulled, university […]
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Your 9-5 No Longer 215 Compatible
In a 5-2 decision Thursday, the California Supreme Court ruled that the 1996 initiative, Proposition 215, which exempts medical marijuana patients and their caregivers from state prosecution, does not limit an employer’s authority to fire workers for violating federal drug laws. ( SF Chronicle article here ). “We have no reason to conclude the voters […]
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Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park News
On Tuesday, Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park resident Cory Holderman asked the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors for help. According to a report in the Times-Standard, the board voted to direct the Economic Division of Humboldt County Community Development Services “to assist in identifying and preparing grant applications and/or other funding sources for relocation assistance, if […]
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Humboldt’s Biggest Export to China
Not really. It turns out that the Chinese have their own Sasquatch and he/she lives in the forests of Hubei Province (central China). If you haven’t read it already, check out the Journal’s recent Bigfoot exposé. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.470602&w=425&h=350&fv=playlist%3Dno%26branding%3Dno%26imgPath%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fi.current.com%2Fimages%2Fepg%2Ftravel%2Fsearching_for_bigfoot%2F1_400x300.jpg%26vidPath%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fv.current.com%2Fvideo%2Ffeeds%2Fbroadcast%2FPods%2FPD05%2F323%2FPD05323.flv%26autoplay%3Dtrue] from current.com posted with vodpod
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Outsider artist left out in the cold…
Apropos of our recent story about Northcoast visionary artist Reuben Sorensen, who some claim is an outsider artist, the other Journal (from Wall St. not G. St) sheds new light today on just how hard it is to get into the outsider world. NEW YORK — This morning, Ross Brodar plans to rent a 24-foot […]
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Dammed if you do …
Early last week, stakeholders in the Klamath settlement talks went public with a water deal that was immediately hailed as "historic" and a "breakthrough" in the press. That deal, the product of three years of closed-door meetings between myriad interests including environmental groups, farmers, commercial fishermen and tribes, comes with a $1 billion price tag […]
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Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park Update
Residents of the 18 units of the Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park on the territory of the Blue Lake Rancheria received letters yesterday from the rancheria announcing that there may be potential buyers for their trailers. Home owner Susie Holderman talked to Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Administrator Arla Ramsey this morning and, though interactions with the […]
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Aiy-yu-kwee, Goodbye
In December of last year, residents of the Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park — located on the territory of the Blue Lake Rancheria — were expecting to receive the usual season’s greetings: good tidings and Christmas cheer. Instead, they got eviction notices. When 76-year-old Sid Madjarac received his letter, the first thing he thought about was […]
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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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Ferndale Redeemed
Ferndale therapist Stuart Altschuler got exactly what he wanted for his birthday: On Monday night the Ferndale City Council voted 4-1 to approve a home occupation permit for his psychotherapy office. That permit has been at the center of a four-month debacle involving Altschuler, his neighbor Shannon Leonardo and Shannon’s uncle Rich Leonardo, who questioned […]