Dave Meserve started thinking about the influence military recruiters exert on young people in the community a couple of years ago. He was sitting in a coffee shop one morning when a recruiter walked in with three high school-aged girls. “He bought them sweet coffee drinks,” the former Arcata City Councilmember recalled in an interview […]
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The Notebook of Alternate Juror No. 4
I’ve been here a week and a half, sitting through jury selection, and I’ve learned a few new things about our justice system. For instance, I already knew the difference between direct and circumstantial evidence, but I didn’t know, as the judge patiently explained at least four or five times, that the two are equally […]
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The old wall of words
Harvey Jossem was born on April 15, 1930 — he would have turned 78 this Tuesday. But Jossem died, of natural causes, on Dec. 28, leaving behind his tiny, time-frayed little green house on an unnamed dirt street in northeast Eureka, four cats, a handful of friends and caregivers and stacks and stacks of personal […]
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Take back the day
All this week, Humboldt State has been hosting a series of Take Back the Night functions. You could silkscreen a T-shirt on Sunday, do some dance therapy on Monday afternoon then map out patriarchy in the evening, engage in a roundtable discussion about gender violence on Tuesday, partake of some end-the-violence-and-rape-culture theater on Wednesday, maybe […]
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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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After You’re Dead
What happens after you’re dead? The exact nature of the afterlife (if there is one) is debatable and far from certain. What is certain is that we leave behind a body, a mass of flesh and bone that someone has to deal with. Have you made plans for the disposition of your remains? Chances are […]
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House Poor
The Redwood Curtain wasn’t thick enough to insulate Raul Merezko from the country’s subprime mortgage crisis. According to public documents obtained from the Humboldt County Recorder’s Office, Merezko — chosen at random from a list of over 80 individuals who have lost their homes for nonpayment sinceJan. 1, 2007 — bought his home in a […]
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The Chinese Press
Ah, propaganda. There’s something almost endearing about it. Its self-righteous sincerity, its intrepid flouting of facts. You really have to admire the loyalty of those reporters who willingly regurgitate a one-note version of the truth, but are otherwise honest journalists. I had never really witnessed such a steady diet of disinformation until I came to […]