Letters + Opinion

Well, you can take off the bumper stickers. Maxxam is out of Humboldt. That’s it for Charles Hurwitz . Twenty-two years later, and not a moment too soon, every card has been played. He’s getting up from the table, pockets quite a bit heavier, and moseying off into the Texas sunset. The once-proud Pacific Lumber […]

I think the last time Roger Rodoni and I talked was almost a year ago. We bumped into each other at the Courthouse Market, where he was a regular. The Tamara Falor matter was the big thing in the news at the time. Everyone was trying to figure out why the county had signed a […]

What’s the first thing you think of when you think of Humboldt County’s First Supervisorial District, that one-fifth of the county’s population that fisherman Jimmy Smith has represented since 2000? Even if you’re someone who pays attention, it’s likely as not that you first think of cattle, creameries, quaint Victorian villages. And so it looks […]

The North Coast Railroad Authority and the Humboldt Bay District last week got the final big thumbs-down on their … ummm, creative scheme to juke the California Transportation Commission out of a cool $20 mil. The idea, you’ll remember, was that the railroad authority would snatch the cash to open up the dead tracks around […]

Even allowing for the fact that this is an election year, the speed and fury with which the coalition that has recently formed to oppose the standard tactics and practices of the Humboldt County Code Enforcement Unit was a wonder to behold. They filled up Garberville’s Vets’ Hall on Friday of last week, and they […]

The vote is in! Result? It’s Mendocino Redwood Company, by a mile! The only major voting bloc in the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case that doesn’t have its own horse in the running is the group of "unsecured creditors," the mostly small-fry type folks who did business with the company, or successfully sued it. (The Journal¬†is […]

We got quite a few responses to our "Palco Bankruptcy Contest," in which readers were invited to lobby us and try to influence our vote in the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case. If you recall, the North Coast Journal is a participant in the case; subsidiary Britt Lumber of Arcata — since shuttered — owed us […]

It was an exciting Wednesday afternoon last week, as the crowd of people considering running for supervisor in the Arcata-centered Third District winnowed itself down to just three right at the deadline. The two last-minute candidates we wrote about last week, Lee Ulansey and Chris Lehman, de-candidated themselves right after we went to press. So […]

A couple of weeks ago former Arcata City Councilmember Elizabeth Conner told us that she was "seriously considering" a run for supervisor in the wake of long-time Third District incumbent John Woolley’s surprising decision to take his name out of the running for this year’s election. We assumed that Conner was speaking euphemistically. Political language […]

A lot went down at the crucial Pacific Lumber bankruptcy hearing we previewed last week. Most importantly, each of the four plans on the table were sent forward, and now all the various interests in the case — the owners of the company and all the people the company owes money to — will be […]