The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat reports that on Thursday the California Transportation Commission released an additional $13.6 million to the North Coast Railroad Authority. The money will be used to fund repairs in Sonoma and Marin counties. According to the P-D, the NCRA says the money is enough to open a 60-mile stretch of the south […]
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Railroad Wackers Army Assembles
It began with an outdoors column by Journal publisher Judy Hodgson detailing a day of “civil disobedience” spent cutting blackberries and brush along the railroad right-of-way between Arcata and Eureka. She followed with a publisher’s column saying in part, The response to the story was immediate and overwhelming. How can we help? Where can I […]
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Times-Standard Blogland
Our semi-esteemed colleagues at the Times-Standard have dived back into the Internet, launching or relaunching a whole slew of blogs. Check out T-S Online Editor James Faulk’s convocation here. A convenient time to rain down fire on the enemy Eureka Reporter. Kick ’em while they’re down, James! Unfo, each of the 10 T-S blogs has […]
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Burly, But Not Yet Burly Enough
Hella shredding news for the long-dreamed-of Eureka Skate Park. The Havasu News-Herald (don’t ask) reports that the Tony Hawk Foundation has kicked down with a $25,000 grant. Now for the buzzkill. Check this Nov. 21 Eureka Reporter article : But roughly $250,000 is still needed for to project to be a go, to reach the […]
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Suspended Bridge
You might think anyone living deep in the Klamath River boonies would be content with a certain degree of disconnect, proud of or at least resigned to the hardship imposed by deep wooded canyons, summer-bake and winter-freeze, rock-riddled roads, simple living and familial rootedness. For the most part, this may be true. You’d have to […]
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Mine, All Mine
Last week, I called my brother in LA and told him that my husband Scott and I were buying an antiquarian bookstore. He considered our occupations — magazine editor, author, and now bookstore owner — and said, "Wow. Books, magazines — you guys are really getting into a growth industry up there." "Yes, we believe […]
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Inside Out
Figuring out what Reuben Sorensen’s paintings mean is almost as hard as figuring out how to get to his house. I’m counting the number of bridges I’ve driven over since I turned off the asphalt road that leads west from Redway through Briceland. My compact Japanese car is way out of its element. It’s raining […]
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New Sheriff At FPPC
There’s an interesting article in last week’s Capitol Weekly about the new chairman of the state’s Fair Political Practices Commission, the state agency that oversees California’s money-in-politics regulations. The new guy looks pretty burly: The FPPC, spawned by the Watergate scandals, is the state’s political watchdog (although few at the FPPC like that term) with […]
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Homeland Security $ for SoHum – don’t worry, it’s a good thing
It’s always nice when pork-barrel politics helps out your friends. And who is more deserving than SoHum’s backwoods volunteer firemen? WASHINGTON – Today, North Coast Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-01) announced that the Beginnings Volunteer Fire Department in Redway will receive a federal grant of more than $97K. The grant will be used to replace degraded […]
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K-i-s-s-i-n-g
Yep, after years of acrimony fueled, it is said, by pernicious personality differences, two of the biggest homegrown environmental organizations in this Humboldt/North Coast surroundscape have officially locked lips and sealed their alliance: the Environmental Protection Information Center and the Northcoast Environmental Center , wed at last. They’ve been sorta growing close over the past […]
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EPD Brass Arraigned
Lt. Tony Zanotti testifying in the coroner’s inquest into the death of Cheri Lyn Moore . Drawing by K. Rudin. Press release just in from the District Attorney’s Office: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2007 Retired Chief of Police David Douglas and Eureka Police Lieutenant Anthony Zanotti appeared for arraignment today in Department 8 of […]