Stuart Altschuler, a psychotherapist who moved to Ferndale from West Hollywood last May, recently found out the hard way that in this small town, being a gay man who’s spent the greater part of his life counseling others about AIDS/HIV and issues of sexuality isn’t something to boast about. It’s reason for your neighbors to […]
Japhet Weeks
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The COG and the Machine
Humboldt county residents showed up en masse. Representatives from the Eureka business community were there. An environmental advocacy group gave a PowerPoint presentation. The meeting lasted until almost midnight. But this wasn’t a debate about Home Depot. It wasn’t a meeting about the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy or unregulated marijuana grow houses. Rather, it was a […]
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VUB to close at the end of the month
Veteran’s day was Novemeber 11. Nonetheless, I didn’t hear anything on the The California Report about Humboldt State University’s Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) program which lost its funding this past August . Humboldt’s VUB was the only program of its kind on the West Coast — you’d think that warrants some coverage. The VUB has […]
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Pelican Bay Rodeo?
A state penitentiary hosting a rodeo with convicts riding bucking broncs?! Sounded like bull to me, but it’s true. Five times a year the warden of America’s largest high-security prison in Angola, Louisiana puts on a rodeo and an arts-and-craft fair — “where convicts who’ve earned the right get to buck broncs and straddle bulls, […]
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This is Current TV on weed…
With Bob Doran’s cover story about weed, Gold From Green in a Gray Area, still circulating the streets, here are three videos from Current, an independent cable and satellite TV network based in SF, that address the medical marijuana issue, each in their own way. Drew Carey, Arnie and presidential hopefuls’ take on weed Medical […]
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Not on my land!
Photos by Yulia Weeks Until recently, county residents living just outside of Rio Dell’s city limits didn’t think there was any reason to worry about the machinations of Rio Dell’s public works department. But now, because of tightening regulation of the city’s sewage system, some property owners in the bucolic Metropolitan Road area — nestled […]
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Views of the Bay
A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into. At least that’s what I’ve always been told. But when it comes to the five candidates running for the Humboldt Bay Recreation and Conservation District Commission, that saying is one of the few things they can agree to disagree with. All of them […]
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The Wordy City
The New York Times ’ wordsmith William Safire would have a field day if he visited Fortuna now. That’s because the City Council there is pulling out its hair over how future generations might define the phrase “preserving small-town qualities,” as contained in the city’s General Plan Update (GPU). At its Oct. 2 meeting, the […]
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Mekong River Pulp
Our Evergreen Pulp, Inc. — the largest unbleached kraft pulp mill in North America — has been in the news recently because it will spend $5 million to settle state and federal charges of air pollution. According to findings by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the mill spewed noxious air pollutants that exceeded federal […]
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The Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of World War Two
by Chag Lowry Self-published In Ken Burns’ new documentary series about World War II, which began airing on PBS Sept. 23, only one Native American voice is included. When the series was first announced last spring, there were none at all. After public protest and a quick reedit, Burns added two Latinos and a token […]
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Redefining the Project
The over 4,000 cattle being grazed sustainably at Sycan Marsh, located in the northeastern corner of the Klamath Basin, have no idea how much science has gone into the cud they’re chewing. But Craig Beinz does. At first glance, Beinz looks more like a rancher than an ecologist, but underneath his spotless cowboy hat and […]
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No Native Left Behind
Injustice. That’s what Geneva Wiki and her family have been fighting against for as long as she can remember. Wiki is the great-niece of Raymond Mattz, the Yurok man who refused to pay a fine for gill netting on the Klamath River and successfully appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court, eventually […]