The officeholders’ latest stab at loosening term limits has officially bombed , so that means it’s time to dosey-do. Assemblymember Patty Berg and former State Senator Wesley Chesbro are holding a press conference tomorrow to make an “announcement regarding California’s First Assembly District.” Wild guess: The announcement will be that Berg, termie-termed out of office, […]
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Join the Meserves
He’s back, baby! Former Arcata City Councilmember Dave Meserve has written up a citizen’s initiative that would completely ban all military recruiting targeting minors [Thx, Shane!] within the Arcata city limits. He’s calling it the “Arcata Youth Protection Act,” and he hopes to get it on the November ballot. Will he be able to gather […]
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Help Me Out
Is this story really saying that Caltrans is going to go after Prop. 1B funding for improvements to Highway 36? To Highway freakin’ 36? I think it is saying that. Prop. 1B, you’ll remember, was a state bond measure designed to alleviate traffic congestion on highly impacted transportation corridors. And so it seems that some […]
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California Improved
Lobo woke about noon, or maybe a bit later, feeling as if he had spent the night inhaling poisonous gases. He checked his tobacco pouch. Nearly empty, just a dry pinch or two left to roll. He realized at some point he had vomited, but he couldn’t see it, so he didn’t worry about it. […]
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Long Distance Encounter with George Clinton
He’s a man who needs no introduction, so I won’t say much. My conversation with George Clinton ranged far and wide, from his legal affairs to the history of Parliament-Funkadelic and on to close encounters, even a recipe for fried fish, “the best one in the world.” In advance of his show for the Black […]
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Reggae Hearing Continues — Today
The headline on the page 2 story in this morning’s Times-Standard reads, ” Mateel hearing to continue later this month.” It would appear that the story was written last week, but held until today, which makes the past/future tense parts a tad confusing. T-S staffer Jessie Faulkner writes, Retired Judge James Warren of San Francisco, […]
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Wynton, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and socks
John Chapman’s photos from Monday night’s show at the Van Duzer almost say it all: Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra were smooth, cool, swingin’ in that sophisticated old style that some folks in the audience likely were lucky enough to experience first-hand and in-time — that is, back in the traditional jazz […]
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Does the house always win?
By Japhet Weeks Big labor and big gambling are clashing this year in California’s most expensive proposition fight to date. On Feb. 5, voters will decide whether or not to ratify four Indian gaming compacts that were passed by the California state legislature last summer, signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and approved by […]
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Care for an Éclair?
Goodbye, sugarpie About five or six years ago — he can’t quite remember when — Dr. Leo Leer and his colleagues at Eureka Family Practice turned a cold shoulder to the hordes of pharmaceutical company salespeople — drug reps — who hitherto had had free rein in their office. No longer could a well-heeled, uberfriendly, […]
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On Shaky Ground
The Physical Science Building at the College of the Redwoods sits atop a grassy knoll on the corner of the campus. As was explained in detail at a special meeting of the community college’s board of trustees last Thursday, the building also sits atop something called the Little Salmon Fault. In fact, much of the […]
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Communication Dept.
It would be easy at this moment in HSU’s history — surprisingly fat with increased enrollment as the spring semester freshly sprouts, but also in belt-tightening mode to cover a lingering deficit — to assume that any tales of overstuffed classes and enormous waiting lists has directly to do with this happy-sad situation. One might […]