Eureka Reporter publisher Judi Pollace confirmed this afternoon that Managing Editor Glenn Franco Simmons resigned from the paper today. Pollace said that the resignation was for personal reasons, and declined to elaborate. “We wish him all the luck in the world,” Pollace said. Pollace said that she was in the process of writing an ad […]
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Harvard wants Humboldt redwoods (update)
from the AP wire service via Forbes online: Harvard endowment wants to take over bankrupt Pacific Lumber Harvard University’s endowment said Thursday it’s interested in buying more than 200,000 acres of timberlands in California as part of a plan to take over logging company Pacific Lumber Co. and bring it out of bankruptcy. An attorney […]
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Oops: Local Power Plant Belches Black Smoke
A Loleta resident called the Journal today to tell us she had seen black smoke “belching” from the stacks of the PG&E power plant early yesterday afternoon. About an hour later she called the North Coast Unified Air Quality Management District to file a complaint — the NCUAQMD told her they weren’t aware of a […]
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Earthquake!
Damn! That was a pretty good one. Update : What? Centered in Willow Creek ?
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What Happens Next
We’re going to fill this week’s paper with tributes and memories of a unique, historical figure in Humboldt County. But we can’t ignore the fact that this tragedy takes place at a time when Roger Rodoni was running for re-election. People are confused about what happens next, and we believe that we finally have the […]
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Roger Rodoni
I think the last time Roger 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 confidentiality […]
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Burgers for Earth Day?
This just in: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: KSLG’s afternoon radio personality, Dr. Syd wants to buy you breakfast on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22 from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the northern Eureka Burger King. The catch is that Dr. Syd will only buy you breakfast if you carpool, “The importance of carpooling is finally being […]
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Edible Braille
Tired of being thwarted in your quest for a dignified meal in a restaurant because you can’t read the damned menu? Well, the LightHouse of the North Coast wants you to know that it has teamed up with the Humboldt Council of the Blind and other groups to provide free Braille and large-print menus to three […]
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He’s big in Bishopville
You know you’ve been waiting for this update: Remember at the end of March when we reported that Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi had gone to South Carolina to investigate strange happenings in the land of the Lizard Man? Yes, well, he’s telling folks there that his hi-sci monitoring leads him to believe that they’ve “got the […]
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David Simpson blogs from Corpus Christi
Petrolia resident David Simpson has been down in Texas attending the Palco bankruptcy hearings. This week he started a Community Forest Team blog titled, Dispatches from David . As someone involved in the legal morass , he has an axe to grind — that said, his first hand accounts are insightful and well worth reading. […]
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Don’t Cry For Hurwitz
The Houston Chronicle‘s Loren Steffy dries the tears in his eyes long enough to again sing the tragic tale of one of Houston’s finest, Charles Hurwitz. The occasion is Hurwitz’s recent losses — or are they really wins? — in a couple of court cases, including our own Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case and the reversal […]
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Condor big time
Used to be, California condors sailed the western skies from Baja to Canada. Now just 148 hunker down in captivity and another 136 exist tenuously in the wild — 63 of them in California, mostly in Southern California although some live up around Hollister at Pinnacles National Monument. But someday we may see the […]