Letters + Opinion

With the Internet and long-distance telephony down and the first big storm of the season brewing offshore, on Tuesday morning the Journal staff brewed up mugs of hot chocolate and huddled ’round our little television to watch the most contentious Board of Supervisors meeting in ages. What a treat! If you’ve got a head for […]

Two great big Earth-shattering pieces of news came down the pike last week, and for various reasons we’re not going to treat either one with any degree of completeness. One: Dateline, Corpus Christi, Texas. The Pacific Lumber Co., which filed bankruptcy in January, submitted its long-awaited reorganization plan on Monday. In brief, how does the […]

We had a good time meeting last week with Steven Glazer, the public relations man retained by Eureka kazillionaire Rob Arkley to put forth his case in the now-infamous Avalon incident (see "Town Dandy," Sept. 13). We’d heard from KSLG’s John Matthews — the first local to score an interview with Glazer, we believe — […]

To: Heather Gough Deputy County Counsel County of Humboldt 825 Fifth Street Eureka, Calif. 95501 Dear Ms. Gough: Thanks much for your response to our Public Records Act request for documents pertaining to the arrest and booking of Martin Frederick Cotton II on Aug. 9. Thank you, too, for providing some of the material we […]

It appears that there are lots of people who don’t want to believe it, but they’ve yet to settle on a preferred version of events. Some say it never happened, that it’s just a "publicity stunt." Others say it’s being blown all out of proportion — just an everyday pissing match, and a pox on […]

Hey, remember "term limits"? That was the quaint little theory proposed and approved by California voters back in 1990. The idea was that the business of government would be wrested from sharpies and placed in the hands of a new breed of "citizen-legislator." These wholesome, Jimmy Stewart-esque superhumans would rise from the tilled soil to […]

These are the days when we’re most blessed to be Humboldters. The Pacific takes us under her wing, blowing her cool breath upon our faces. We start most days under a crisp shield of morning fog, like civilized people. Meanwhile, our enemy, the sun, defenestrates the rest of the country — and, indeed, most of […]

We sit at our desk, pushing around the scraps of paper that have accumulated here. We read them like tea leaves. And we have no way of saying for certain, but the strongest theory that arises is that the Houston-based Maxxam Corp., whose local affiliate, the once-proud Pacific Lumber Co., which has been in bankruptcy […]

There’s a little local election coming up in a couple of months — on Nov. 6 — though you wouldn’t exactly know it by reading the papers. Nominations for most offices up for vote closed on Friday, Aug. 10. The final candidates for most races are known. What’s needed is a fight-card-style preview of the […]