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Piling On the NCRA
Who didn’t think it would come to this? The Environmental Protection Information Center, Friends of the Eel and Californians for Alternatives to Toxins, as well as two Marin County environmental groups, today announced their intention to file an amicus brief in the City of Novato’s lawsuit against the North Coast Railroad Authority. The environmental groups’ […]
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Grow Houses and Cloned Redwoods
Strange story in the New York Times this morning about an effort to clone the biggest and most impressive redwood trees, so that they may be planted in groves around the world. Apparently they’ve been planting freak redwood forests here and there for years now: One of the largest nonnative redwood forests is near Rotorua, […]
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Chilling New Theory
Over at Rambling Jack’s Laboratory, McKinleyville Press editor/publisher Jack Durham clinically lays out the evidence in the case of the recent Klamath Ox Kill. What you see may disturb you. Better not let the kids click through.
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Morning Papers
Two Peoples, One Place, the new Humboldt County history by Ray Raphael and Freeman House, gets a great review in the San Francisco Chronicle. (The NCJ had the honor of launching the book last month.) Balloon Track East? Local kazillionaire Rob Arkley’s company, Security National, is developing a 130-acre industrial park in Plympton, Mass., according […]
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Added To Pipe
Humboldt Blogs blogfeed users, please extend a big blogthing welcome to: The mysterious Kym K, aka The Redheaded Blackbelt. Our scenester pals at the Arcata Eye.
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Lame Excuses
Many apologies for the sporadic posts. Truth is, we’re all working on some massively awesome things that we’re gonna unleash on your head next week and all throughout the month of December. Trust me — cool stuff coming up in the paper. Take that to the bank, sucka. Meanwhile, we just put our annual Gift […]
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VUB to close at the end of the month
Veteran’s day was Novemeber 11. Nonetheless, I didn’t hear anything on the The California Report about Humboldt State University’s Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) program which lost its funding this past August . Humboldt’s VUB was the only program of its kind on the West Coast — you’d think that warrants some coverage. The VUB has […]
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Pelican Bay Rodeo?
A state penitentiary hosting a rodeo with convicts riding bucking broncs?! Sounded like bull to me, but it’s true. Five times a year the warden of America’s largest high-security prison in Angola, Louisiana puts on a rodeo and an arts-and-craft fair — “where convicts who’ve earned the right get to buck broncs and straddle bulls, […]
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This is Current TV on weed…
With Bob Doran’s cover story about weed, Gold From Green in a Gray Area, still circulating the streets, here are three videos from Current, an independent cable and satellite TV network based in SF, that address the medical marijuana issue, each in their own way. Drew Carey, Arnie and presidential hopefuls’ take on weed Medical […]
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Estelle Fennell Announces
The worst-kept secret in Humboldt County is officially out of the bag. In a decidedly Colbertian move, former KMUD Newsgoddess Estelle Fennell announced this afternoon that she will soon be announcing her candidacy for the Second District Board of Supervisors’ seat. Where: Redway Fire Department Building, 155 Empire Ave. Redway When: Monday November 12 th […]
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Cut those — achoo! — redwoods down!
Now, all you have to do, Charles, is walk on in there — yep, right into those big boys — and sneeze.