Editor: As is the case for most of our country, Humboldt State University is experiencing ongoing financial pain. In our case, that has resulted in damage to our capacity to teach and engage in scholarship. It has been an extremely stressful time for my colleagues and me as we cast about to find ways to […]
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Nice to be Nice
Well, here we are with only a few days left to go in the first and possibly final round of the 2008 contest for the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, and so far there’s been a noticeable absence of juice to the campaigns. Lo and behold, everyone seems to have played above board, more or […]
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King’s Salmon
Editor: The Karuk Tribe’s representative Craig Tucker has been making the rounds, both on the media front and in the rumor mill, to discredit the Northcoast Environmental Center’s position on Klamath dam settlement talks. (“Town Dandy,” May 22) Tucker’s pitch is unfortunate. He contends that the NEC has had “two years” to bring up our […]
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Cub Care
Editor: We appreciated your recent article on the mountain lion cub (“Of Cubs and Men,” May 15). We were happy to be able to clarify the situation. There are a few points, however, that we think should be mentioned. The Humboldt Wildlife Care Center had no say in the decision-making process regarding the eventual plan […]
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Next up: RATT
Editor: As I write this, Humboldt County is on the eve of one of the finest cultural moments the area has experienced since, well … ever. Tonight, taking the stage in a casino (the indoor equivalent of a county fair) is Night Ranger (“The Hum,” May 22). Tickets starting at $39. Leave your self-respect at […]
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Drying Up
Is the Klamath Settlement Agreement dying? Not yet, but the proposal to end years of one of the West’s most vitriolic water wars isn’t looking too healthy right now. For the last couple of years, fishermen and environmentalists and Indians and farmers sat around a table, trying to reach an agreement that would share Klamath […]
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The Schizophrenic Second
As expected, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last week appointed Stafford resident Johanna Rodoni to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors. Rodoni takes the seat formerly occupied by her husband, the late Roger Rodoni, whose tragic and sudden death in an automobile accident late last month shot a hole through the county’s heart (see "Roger Rodoni, 1940-2008," […]
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Assume the Position
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 […]
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Eel River Sunset
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 […]
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Indecent Expression
When the Humboldt Herald blog posted news that County Supervisor Roger Rodoni had died in a car accident, it got 51 responses, mostly people expressing condolences. One person posted an old Irish blessing. It took a tragic death to unite our local blog commentators. Few of the comments you read on our various local blogs […]
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Livestock and Tract Homes
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 […]
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Fall of the Great
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 […]