How to tell a visiting Secret Service agent from a Humboldt County resident, with help from Flickr user Chuck Patch : It’s not as difficult as you might imagine. On the left: Secret Service agent. On the right: Humboldt County resident. Let’s try another one, this time with an assist from Dave Whelan : Did […]
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Teen Shot in Eureka
From the EPD: On 1/15/07 at about 1:25 am the Eureka Police Department received a report that a 16-year-old male gunshot victim had arrived at the St Joseph Hospital Emergency Room. Officers contacted the victim who explained that unknown suspects had attempted to rob him on Pine Street near Lincoln School. During the course of […]
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Rumor of the Week
Says a for-the-moment unidentified but reputable source: All- Keep your eyes and ears open, BILL CLINTON is tentatively scheduled to fly up to Eureka on Wed. 1/15 landing around noon and traveling either to HSU or Stanton’s restaurant. We need to bring lots of people up to the airport to greet him and then follow […]
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virtual interview with guitarist David Daniell
Who are you? My name is David Daniell. I’m a guitarist. I’ve been playing with a guitar/guitar/drums trio called San Agustin for the last 10+ years, with releases on Family Vineyard and Table of the Elements . The last few years I’ve been focusing on solo electric guitar. Where are you from? I grew up […]
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Gallegos Loses
The First Appellate Court has just weighed in on the landmark fraud suit brought by District Attorney Paul Gallegos against Pacific Lumber. Gallegos has lost. The trial court decision to toss the case on demurrer was affirmed in full. More to come… UPDATE: The appellate court decision can be found here (.pdf).
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Election time
Last Thursday night, inside the slightly musty old hall of the Labor Temple in Eureka, about a dozen employees from Northcoast Children’s Services gathered at a long table with a couple of representatives from the California Federation of Teachers. The reps had driven up that day from San Francisco through a winter storm that cleared […]
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Unlike Mike
“How happy it would make us to see Bush and Cheney behind bars!” So said Mitch Clogg, Democratic candidate for Congress, on KMUD radio on Sunday. And if anyone within distance of the radio signal objected to the notion, they did not bother to make their objection heard. Clogg was one of three candidates who […]
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The Duel
While national politics dominate the news tonight, why not take a moment to revisit a seminal moment in our country’s history as retold by a guy who just slammed a pint of Scotch? Starring Michael Cera, the greatest actor in America*. * = (… who does not appear on The Wire and is also not […]
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December Humboldt Economic Index
Just published . This month the Composite Index dropped under 100 for the first time since January 1997. The Index stands at 99.9 — a 5.2% drop from last month. With two or three leading indicators showing signs of slowing accompanied with a decline in all sectors for which data were available, the Humboldt County […]
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Shit Creek
Just in case you’re not tuned in to the master HumCo blogfeed, ace reporter Ernie Branscomb is saying that a crashed truck just dumped 2,000 gallons of raw sewage into the South Fork of the Eel just north of Garberville. No one hurt, apparently.
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Marin Judge Prepares Railroad Slam
On the eve of the big North Coast Railroad Authority v. Everyone lawsuit trial date down in Marin County, a judge has signaled that he is inclined to rule against the railroad authority and for the County of Marin, the City of Novato and several Bay Area and Humboldt County environmental organizations. In a pretrial […]