Now we know what happens to all those confiscated growlights — exported! In the ABC News story about the policeman’s preferred online auction site, Humboldt Sheriff’s property technician Bruce Slocum says, “We had some stuff here that is the result of dope-growing operations and we did not want to resell it locally.”
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Humboldt in Texas
Another dopey movie. Looks fun, though. Also, considering the price of gas these days, watching this movie might suffice for people who in glory days gone by might’ve just fired up the family wagon for a trip to our fair coast, you know, to dream for a week about escaping the rat race like we […]
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The Wire creators on how to end the Drug War
The best show on TV — ever — ends its five-year run tonight. I’m not going to go into detail on why you should watch The Wire , let’s just say it’s offered us a glimpse of the dysfunctional state of the inner-city we haven’t seen elsewhere and are not likely to see again. In […]
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Geographic Analysis of Humboldt County’s Hillary Smackdown
IMPORTANT UPDATE! See here . Bill came , he saw, but he did not conquer. When election day rolled around, Barack Obama stomped Hillary Clinton in Humboldt County, 53-38. That’s just a piece of the story, though. The county’s final precinct results, released Thursday, showed that Hillary Clinton was strong in some areas. Where? We […]
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Will America Ever Say Sorry?
Why is it that the world’s greatest democracy has yet to elect a female president? Why was it three decades behind Britain in abolishing slavery? And when, if ever, will it offer a formal apology to its Native American population? Australia’s recently elected prime minister Kevin Rudd — who also happens to speak Chinese (when […]
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Believers and knowers unite!
Well, we don’t really know, do we? Bigfoot? No Bigfoot? Bigfatliars? Bigmisunderstoods? And in the spirit of open, collegial debate — indeed, in the interest of unfettered investigation by believers, if not scientists — U.C. Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology has put on display the plaster casts of tracks that some say were made by […]
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I Drink Your Milkshake
Gold. It’s high, record high. Damned near reached $1,000 an ounce. Because oil’s high, high, and the dollar’s a nuthin. And it’s times like these when all us little folk, slumpin’ along worrying and whining about foreclosures and doctors’ bills and such, could steal a sip from that gold-dredgin’ guru who pissed off the Karuk […]
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Is Rob Arkley a Billionaire?
While he is commonly referred to a either a billionaire or a kazillionaire in the local press and blogosphere, Security National CEO Rob Arkley Jr. does not show up on Forbes Magazine ‘s recently issued list of the world’s billionaires . Forbes online allows you to array the list in various ways. A look at […]
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Klamath Settlement on NPR
Here. It focuses on PacifiCorp. Strange that there was no mention made of the dissenters — neither the Hupa nor the enviros.
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Fortuna Moment
OK, so, the Fortuna City Council was well into its agenda Monday night, in what would be a four-hour meeting after all was said, ranted and done, when Sean Armstrong, project manager for Danco Communities, stood up to answer some questions about his company’s plans to build low-income housing on land the city had bought […]
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Klamaty? NEC Gives Restoration Agreement the Thumbs Down
The Northcoast Environmental Center has rejected the Klamath River Restoration Agreement because it doesn’t provide adequate water flows for fish, according to Executive Director Greg King. It’s the same thing the Hoopa Tribe said when the agreement was unveiled last month. In a press release sent out Sunday, the NEC wrote: “The decision not to […]