Single Eureka elders rejoice, your city has been named one of the nation’s 13 best for swingin’ seniors! Estately, an online real estate search site, released its list Monday, including Eureka as one of its prime destinations for retirees for whom “school districts no longer matter,” and who want somewhere to live that’s “fun and exciting, while […]
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The Nation Examines Pot’s Enviro Impacts via Humboldt County
In the special marijuana-themed Nov. 18 issue of The Nation magazine, reporter Seth Zuckerman chronicles the environmental impacts of indoor and outdoor grow operations here in Humboldt County. Quoting locals such as Friends of The Eel River Executive Director Scott Graecen, HSU lecturer Tony Silvaggio and Arcata City Councilman Michael Winkler, Zuckerman describes the scope […]
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Feeling OK
Pop quiz: Sarah Palin, in a speech during the 2008 presidential campaign, famously accused candidate Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” Who were these terrorists she was referring to? Bonus question: How did at least one of these said terrorists handle all of the attention, much of it threatening, that blossomed during the campaign? Answer: […]
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Times-Standard Announces New Publisher
Eureka’s “paper of record” has a new publisher. On Oct. 1, Paula Patton will make the jump from Marysville, where she published the daily newspaper The Appeal-Democrat and three weekly newspapers serving the Central Valley north of Sacramento. Read the full announcement here.
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Sympathy for the Leakers
Hey, look! Greg King, longtime environmental activist and current executive director of the Siskiyou Land Conservancy, has a letter in the Mailbox section of this week’s New Yorker magazine. In the letter, King comments on Steve Coll’s article about the persecution of New York Times journalist James Risen, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. Read the […]
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Arcata Eye, McKinleyville Press Forge New Media Empire
A Mad River media mega-monopoly has formed. Via Facebook, the Arcata Eye announced it will join forces with Northern Humboldt’s other hyper-local weekly newspaper the McKinleyville Press starting Oct. 2. And the Mad River Union was born. Arcata Eye publisher/editor/reporter Kevin Hoover announced in 2011 that the paper would cease publication in February, 2014, leading to […]
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Listen: This American Life Talks Mendo’s Pot Program
If you missed the latest episode of This American Life, the fantastic, award-winning public radio program broadcast locally on KHSU, then you’ve yet to hear reporter Mary Cudddehe’s take on Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman and his ill-fated attempt to bring sanity to medical marijuana regulation. As you may recall, Allman came up with Mendocino […]
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Arkley Lawyers Threaten Journal With Restraining Order
The letter arrived late last week, printed on the letterhead of Mitchell, Brisso, Delaney & Vrieze, LLP, attorneys at law, and its warning was dire. “The North Coast Journal‘s continued attempts to contact Mr. [Rob] Arkley … border on civil harassment.” Signed by attorney Russell S. Gans, the letter was addressed to Journal Publisher Judy […]
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Welcome, Jennifer
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, who has written for the Journal about everything from redevelopment to zombie Thanksgiving wrestling to her grandfather’s miso soup, joins our staff this week. She grew up in New York State and earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Columbia University in New York City. Jennifer was a book […]
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Go, Heidi!
The Journal’s own Heidi Walters has been named a national finalist for beat reporting by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. We entered just a few of her wonderful and diverse pieces of environmental reporting: Bright Bird, about research into bird intelligence; The World is Yours, Oyster Farmer, about aquaculture in Humboldt Bay, and A Place […]
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Go, Burns!
The Journal’s Ryan Burns is first in investigative reporting, first in local government coverage and first in writing, says the California Newspaper Association’s Better Newspapers Contest. And our whole staff comes in second in breaking news coverage, for our June 2012 election edition. The honors, for weekly papers in our size category from all over […]