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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Tenants’ rights, postmortem
Wanda Taylor, 51, died unexpectedly on Wednesday Feb. 27, on her bed inside her apartment — No. 5, at 607 Summer Street in Eureka. Later that night, Taylor’s sister, Barbara Mitchell, received the news by telephone from their brother Michael. Mitchell lives in Orick. The rest of the family lives elsewhere in California and in […]
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Humboldt At War
This Thursday, March 20, marks the five-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. In Humboldt County, the occasion will be marked, this Saturday at 1 p.m., by the county’s annual peace march, which will start at the Eureka Municipal Auditorium. As always, the peace marchers will bring all sorts of issues to the event. Some […]
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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 […]
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Out-of-county experience
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.”