Copies of the new NCJ are usually hitting Arcata and Eureka right about now. Not this week. It looks like there were some problems at the printers last night, and the Journal won’t be going out until this afternoon or tomorrow. We haven’t seen any copies yet. Here’s a tease, though. This week, the Journal […]
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Disemvowelment In Effect
We’ve been blissfully troll-free in the month that the Blogthing has been live, but it was only a matter of time. Notice: Trollish posts herein and henceforth will be disemvoweled. If you really want to see what has been posted you can figure it out, but you’ll have to put in a bit of work. […]
Muddy’s Hot Cup gets quieter
This official announcement (from Muddy’s Hot Cup) came in Tuesday morning. Look for further details in the Hum this week. – Bob December 4, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: No More Music at Muddy’s — Again? Live entertainment at Muddy’s Hot Cup of Northtown is cancelled until further notice. In a hearing with the department of […]
Can Indonesia Save the Bay?
The Eureka Reporter seems to think so. In today’s paper, they give front-page coverage to a meeting that took place yesterday between Deddy Saiful Hadi, head of Chancery/Consul for Economics with the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia, and the City of Eureka. According to the report, the meeting was a success. Hadi, unprompted, […]
More Ferndalian psychotherapy
If Freud had a psychotherapy practice in Ferndale — that is if he could get one — he might notice how fixated the town folk are on their very tall, living Christmas tree. He might think nothing of it. After all, sometimes a Christmas tree is just a Christmas tree. But then again, Ferndale has […]
Cutbacks at the ER
Chris Durant and Kimberly Wear outside Times-Standard headquarters this morning. Photo: Al Eisenstadt. The war may not be over, but the Eureka Reporter ‘s big announcement this morning is pretty much as expected — a five-day-per-week publishing schedule and a bumped-up website. The days of fancy paper are long gone. Can the ER make it […]
The Glory That Is Willits
This week in my column I wrote a little bit about Willits , my hometown, and how it’s become awesome all of a sudden: Willits is the new Garberville. Only bigger and even cooler. Ten years ago the tweakers owned the town. Now they seem to have been banished. Someone flipped some sort of switch […]
FPPC To Investigate Campbell
The state Fair Political Practices Commission will undertake an investigation of Fortuna Mayor John Campbell, according to a press release sent out this afternoon by Mark Lovelace of the Humboldt Watershed Council. The investigation, in response to an HWC complaint, will center on whether or not Campbell has acted improperly by failing to disclose retirement […]
To Trial Appellate-Level Oral Argumentation
If I read this right, it looks like the appellate court just set a trial date for appellate arguments in the case of People v. Pacific Lumber. That’s District Attorney Paul Gallegos’ suit against Palco for allegedly fraudulent actions committed by the company during the Headwaters Deal. Yes, the one that caused all the fuss. […]
The Ferndale update…
Psychotherapist Stuart Altschuler is going back to the Ferndale City Council for a second round of verbal jousting. Altschuler was recently denied a permit for his home-based psychotherapy office. However, it might be an uphill battle since “The decision of the City Council upon an appeal is final and conclusive as to all things involved […]
What the FERC?!
Driving down U.S. Route 97 this past September in the Lower Klamath Basin in Oregon, Klamath Water Users Association Executive Director Greg Addington told me he expected the settlement talks to end in November. "The settlement talks?" a reporter with the California Farm Bureau asked from the front seat of Addington’s Suburban. Do you live […]
