Letters + Opinion

Congratulations to Humboldt State University’s Class of 2007! Under soggy skies, about 2,500 of our best and brightest paraded the hell out of here on Saturday — perhaps not a moment too soon. Things are none too sunny for those who remain behind, as is well known. A couple of weeks ago, at a meeting […]

Last week Eureka kazillionaire Rob Arkley called up, as he does periodically when he wants to give a tip of the hat or a wag of the finger. "Nice fluff piece on the NEC!" he said with a laugh, referring to last week’s cover story about the new Northcoast Environmental Center. "When am I going […]

Last month, Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) was dining at Charlie Palmer Steak House – that echt-D.C. eatery – when a fellow patron started choking on her meal. According to the Napa Valley Register, Thompson noticed the diner’s contortions, hung up his cell phone and rushed to administer the Heimlich. After four or five thrusts, […]

"Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall, for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire the one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I suggest, ’tis because of the Scale of the Crime.- What we of the Mobility love to watch, is any of the Great Matices, Greed, […]

‘Bloodbath On Buhner St.’ ‘Seaport Satirist Shocker’ ‘Bombastic Blogger Is City’s Legal Beagle’ Yes, everyone has most likely already heard the news, seeing as how it prompted a local media blitz the likes have which have not been seen for about a year (nearly to the day, in fact). The enigmatic blogger previously known as […]

This case is not going to languish very long," said Corpus Christi attorney Shelby Jordan, representing the Maxxam Corp.’s interests at the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy trial Friday morning. "Everyone who comes here is aware that you’re in and out with all due speed." Ho, was that a slip of the tongue, counselor? You meant it […]

No news, no news, no news from Corpus Christi. The dispatches from the massive Pacific Lumber bankruptcy trial have been few of late, mostly because Judge Richard S. Schmidt, the Texas judge in whose lap the Maxxam Corp. placed its failed subsidiary, has been slow to judge whether or not to bend to the overwhelming […]

We’re going to take a quick spin in the Wayback Machine this week, going back in time one year. Spring, 2006. Heady times. If you remember rightly, there was a lot going on back then. What we want to know today is: What ever became of that? A couple of months prior to our target […]

Oh, puhleeze. That’s about the only conceivable response to the Eureka Reporter‘s hyperventilating editorial last Saturday, in which reporter John Driscoll and his employer, the Times-Standard, are made to stand in the dock while charges of unethical conduct are read out against them. To recap, briefly: Driscoll had been covering the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case, […]

The Humboldt Watershed Council organized it, and two labor organizations have since signed on as co-sponsors – the Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment and the Humboldt-Del Norte Central Labor Council. We’re talking about the workshop happening this Friday night at the Fortuna Riverlodge, 6-8 p.m.: "Bankruptcy 101: Understanding the Palco Chapter 11 Case." […]