Letters + Opinion

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." […]

Let it not be said that there is no good coming out of the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy hearings currently underway in Corpus Christi, Texas. Yes, severance packages for laid-off employees have been frozen. Yes, around 3,000 people or business entities, a good number of them local, have been stiffed out of money owed them by […]

Enron. Halliburton. Kellogg, Brown & Root. These hallowed, historical names occupy the very highest rank in the annals of Texas industry and commerce. Whether helping to throw elections for Lyndon Johnson, putting their CEO (Dick Cheney) in the White House or simply ripping off investors and out-of-state electricity buyers on a magnificent scale, these are […]

Hardly anyone seems to be paying much attention, but these are re-markable times in Humboldt County. For at least the last 17 years – maybe more like 40 years – there’s been one single overarching theme in our small, isolated, island-like society, and that’s been the fact that the hippies and the rednecks have always […]

There’s no real news to report for the moment, so maybe now is a good time to catch our breaths and ponder a couple of the lingering questions relating to the Pacific LumberChapter 11 bankruptcy case, which was filed the week before last in Corpus Christi, Texas. As we wrote last week, there was a […]