Hella shredding news for the long-dreamed-of Eureka Skate Park. The Havasu News-Herald (don’t ask) reports that the Tony Hawk Foundation has kicked down with a $25,000 grant. Now for the buzzkill. Check this Nov. 21 Eureka Reporter article : But roughly $250,000 is still needed for to project to be a go, to reach the […]
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New Sheriff At FPPC
There’s an interesting article in last week’s Capitol Weekly about the new chairman of the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission, the state agency that oversees California’s money-in-politics regulations. The new guy looks pretty burly: The FPPC, spawned by the Watergate scandals, is the state’s political watchdog (although few at the FPPC like that term) with […]
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Homeland Security $ for SoHum – don’t worry, it’s a good thing
It’s always nice when pork-barrel politics helps out your friends. And who is more deserving than SoHum’s backwoods volunteer firemen? WASHINGTON – Today, North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-01) announced that the Beginnings Volunteer Fire Department in Redway will receive a federal grant of more than $97K. The grant will be used to replace degraded […]
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K-i-s-s-i-n-g
Yep, after years of acrimony fueled, it is said, by pernicious personality differences, two of the biggest homegrown environmental organizations in this Humboldt/North Coast surroundscape have officially locked lips and sealed their alliance: the Environmental Protection Information Center and the Northcoast Environmental Center , wed at last. They’ve been sorta growing close over the past […]
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EPD Brass Arraigned
Lt. Tony Zanotti testifying in the coroner’s inquest into the death of Cheri Lyn Moore . Drawing by K. Rudin. Press release just in from the District Attorney’s Office: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2007 Retired Chief of Police David Douglas and Eureka Police Lieutenant Anthony Zanotti appeared for arraignment today in Department 8 of […]
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Farmed Fish Gone Wild
In The New York Times Magazine’s “The 7th Annual Year in Ideas,” one story addresses what’s being done to combat dwindling stocks of wild fish in the face of overfishing and environmental changes: manipulate farmed fish to taste wild. This spring, after 10 months of testing, the aquaculture company HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries created what […]
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Ouch
The November 2007 issue of the Humboldt Economic Index is out. The above graph represents seasonally-adjusted lumber production in the county — 55 percent of total manufacturing employment, according to the Index’s authors. And slipping rapidly, apparently. In other Economic Index news: Home prices continue to drop , though home sales rallied somewhat.
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Truths, Inconvenient and Otherwise
Today on NPR’s Morning Edition, Neda Ulaby reports that the new focus on global warming in the media may be “too much of a good thing.” Listen here . To learn more about the effects of global warming on California’s water system, check out The California Report ‘s seven-part series, Climate Change and California’s Water […]
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Monday Morning Papers
The Chronicle reports that Humboldt State is now the last member of the California State University system to have no building named for private donors. Probably not for lack of trying. A new history — Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans — is reviewed in the Chicago Tribune . According to the review, […]
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Klamath Dams = Toxic Waste?
That’s the argument being advanced by Klamath Riverkeeper and the Yurok and Karuk tribes in a $1 billion lawsuit filed yesterday. The Associated Press gives the rationale: The argument is that the Iron Gate and Copco dams south of the Oregon border in Northern California create the perfect conditions for the toxic algae Microcystis aeruginosa […]
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Food Safety Alert! Metromint Flavor Water!
This just in from the Co-op folks: December 6, 2007 The North Coast Co-op has received notification from the FDA and the California Department of Public Health that Soma Beverage of San Francisco is recalling its Metromint Flavor Water with Best Before 2008/12/21 due to possible Bacillus cereus contamination. Bacillus cereus is an agent of […]
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Happy Birthday, Sara Bareilles
Friday, Dec. 7, is Sara Bareilles ‘ birthday. She’s just turned 28. Yes, that’s Sara at the top of the front page on today’s Times-Standard . (She’s in this week’s Journal too and she has also showed up on the pages of Rolling Stone , People magazine and Entertainment Weekly .) The L.A.-based singer songwriter […]