Here’s this week’s coolest thing. It was sponsored by London’s transport system, and it’s meant to raise driver awareness of bicyclists. It’s like something Green Wheels might do if Green Wheels had a budget. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.487013&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] from www.dothetest.co.uk posted with vodpod
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Urine Trouble Now …
The Associated Press reported that a Crescent City woman is facing three years in prison after allegedly trying to steal back her own urine sample. Krystal Evans and a friend intercepted a DHL van and tried to reclaim her bodily fluid, but they were caught yellow handed. Anyway, it’s a good thing that Evans wasn’t […]
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‘Happiness’ Is Runner-Up
We’d heard that Jessica Knapp from North Coast Prep was chosen to go to Sacramento for the California Poetry Out Loud state finals, a contest that involves reciting other people’s poems. She didn’t win, but she did make it to the tie-breaking third round, as noted in this press release: Sacramento – Placer County student […]
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Pulp Mills, the Chinese and a Pinch of Xenophobia
David Hillman , an independent pulp and paper consultant, wonders if the sale of American pulp mills to foreign investors — mostly Chinese — is good or bad. The analysis is published on-line by the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), which, according their website, manages the world’s leading network of experts. The major implication is that […]
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Scratching That Itch
The Baltimore City Paper has a great exit interview with David Simon, creator of The Wire and former all-pro reporter, on the occasion of the end of the series. David Simon: Some people have critiqued the lack of presence of the internet in the Season 5 story. For them, allow me to offer the deleted […]
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Klam Dam-Blam Angers Bucket Man
Meanwhile, in the dry uplands to our east, another supervisorial race has grumbled into low gear with one Leo Bergeron, a long-time Siskiyou County rancher, insurance salesman and genuine Bucket Brigadier, tossing his cap into the ring for the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors’ First District seat. It was the latest Klamath River restoration agreement […]
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‘The Phantom Hunters’
In a send-up of Aussie Steve Irwin’s The Crocodile Hunter, Humboldt State University students participating in the Green Campus Program troll Arcata in search of a not-too-rare species of energy waster. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=KF4UKQVTRTg&feature=related] [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=linZb8aRVyM&feature=related]
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Congratulations Sara Bareilles – Vanguard Artist
If you’re someone who follows the Billboard charts, you already know that Humboldt native Sara Bareilles is doing well. Her single ” Love Song ,” has been hovering near the top of the charts for weeks — it’s No. 4 this week. Her Little Voice album has gone platinum — it’s in the top 10 […]
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Earthquake
Lehman out, Wilson out. Mike Wilson: “I believe that there’s a lot of work to do, and I don’t need to be supervisor to get a lot of things done that we need to get done in Humboldt County. I believe we have a great candidate in Mark Lovelace, who’s been a great community organizer […]
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Third District Shockers
There’s crazy stuff happening in the Third Supervisorial District right up against the 5 o’clock deadline for filing. 1). Lee Ulansey is now out. Repeat: out. Yes, he did pull papers and pay his $750 fee, but he decided not to run after all. 2). Financial planner Bryan Plumley, a member of the Board of […]
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Conner Out; Ulansey, Lehman In
There’s a bit about it in this week’s paper, which is hitting the streets around Eureka and Arcata right now, but we’ll put it up here for debate and discussion. Former Arcata City Councilmember Elizabeth Conner has taken herself out of the race for Third District Supervisor. Lee Ulansey of Kneeland is in, though. He’s […]
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Coloring Inside the Lines
OK, so here’s the corrected version of the Obama v. Clinton Google Earth overlay we trotted out a couple of days ago. Download it here . The old one wasn’t exactly wrong , per se — it was just off by about a tenth of a mile. Unless you zoom way down to street level […]