Ryan Hurley

Well, son, you have to go back a spell, but time was, folks didn’t gather around the widescreen this time of year to sink their teeth into a plate of fair trade Tofurkey. Believe it or not, our primitive forebears actually used to eat the flesh of dead animals known as “turkeys,” which were a […]

When it comes to clinging to the past, there is perhaps no better illustration of the divide than the looming closure of Eureka’s post office sorting facility. Here is an institution that loses $64 quadrillion per quarter (approximately), whose junk-mail delivery trucks dispense ads for pizza and credit cards and don’t even bring us NetFlix […]

Hey, you: Do you trust full-grown adults to decide for themselves whether to inhale the smoke produced by setting fire to a leafy plant? You do? Well, if you call the Golden State home and you vote, come November, you’re in for a bummer: The one issue the candidates for governor of both major parties […]

Has anyone else noticed the erroneous TV schedule listing for the Access Humboldt channel? On the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month, for instance, Access’s local government channel has apparently been airing old episodes of the Addams Family. According to my TV schedule, that time slot is supposed to be reserved for meetings […]

With summer vacation officially kicking-off for hundreds of North Coast families, area tourist attractions are girding for an influx of eager nature-lovers. Sure to be found atop many itineraries will be the glorious sights and sounds of the Sequoia Park Incarceration Facili – er, the Sequoia Park Zoo. The first thing you’ll notice upon entering […]

During the recent flap over prison realignment, local police departments welcomed the added workload like it was the Ebola virus. Tire tread on the Crown Victorias was wearing dangerously thin, they pleaded. Run them down any further, law enforcement brass warned, and 9-1-1 could go AWOL. And so it goes with unfunded enforcement mandates issued […]