Humboldt county residents showed up en masse. Representatives from the Eureka business community were there. An environmental advocacy group gave a PowerPoint presentation. The meeting lasted until almost midnight. But this wasn’t a debate about Home Depot. It wasn’t a meeting about the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy or unregulated marijuana grow houses. Rather, it was a […]
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Pulp Friction
It was early January 2005, and things were a little shaky to say the least out at the pulp mill on the Samoa Peninsula. Stockton Pacific Enterprises, Inc., then-owner of the mill, was sinking fast into the surf under nearly $30 million debt to investor PPM America, which had loaned SPE the money to buy […]
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VUB to close at the end of the month
Veteran’s day was Novemeber 11. Nonetheless, I didn’t hear anything on the The California Report about Humboldt State University’s Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) program which lost its funding this past August . Humboldt’s VUB was the only program of its kind on the West Coast — you’d think that warrants some coverage. The VUB has […]
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Pelican Bay Rodeo?
A state penitentiary hosting a rodeo with convicts riding bucking broncs?! Sounded like bull to me, but it’s true. Five times a year the warden of America’s largest high-security prison in Angola, Louisiana puts on a rodeo and an arts-and-craft fair — “where convicts who’ve earned the right get to buck broncs and straddle bulls, […]
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This is Current TV on weed…
With Bob Doran’s cover story about weed, Gold From Green in a Gray Area, still circulating the streets, here are three videos from Current, an independent cable and satellite TV network based in SF, that address the medical marijuana issue, each in their own way. Drew Carey, Arnie and presidential hopefuls’ take on weed Medical […]
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Estelle Fennell Announces
The worst-kept secret in Humboldt County is officially out of the bag. In a decidedly Colbertian move, former KMUD Newsgoddess Estelle Fennell announced this afternoon that she will soon be announcing her candidacy for the Second District Board of Supervisors’ seat. Where: Redway Fire Department Building, 155 Empire Ave. Redway When: Monday November 12 th […]
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Cut those — achoo! — redwoods down!
Now, all you have to do, Charles, is walk on in there — yep, right into those big boys — and sneeze.
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Trick our Trucker
His friends, until recently, called him ZZ Top. He had a dark bushy beard down to his chest. He had a belly, too. Mark David loves his drink. And tobacco, and chocolate. And he and Loretta Bradford, his life-love and full-time co-pilot, would be out there on the open road, trucking lumber and pipe and […]
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Bottled and Blessed
Yes, yes, from Oakland to Baltimore they’re booting the bottle from city government offices and fancy restaurants. The bottle of water, that is, which activists have taken on as yet another villain in the fight to save the planet from choking on plastic or drowning in deep-puddling carbon footprints. Bottled water, critics say, creates mountains […]
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Gold From Green In A Gray Area
A gentleman with a neatly trimmed beard stands at the counter of an Arcata business on a weekday morning and asks the clerk for an eighth of an ounce of Trainwreck, a popular strain of sinsemilla marijuana. The young woman on the other side of a glass partition, who looks to be a typical Arcata […]
