Aiy-yu-kwee, Goodbye
Mobile home park residents learn that rights in Indian Country are limited
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Aiy-yu-kwee, Goodbye
In December of last year, residents of the Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park — located on the territory of the Blue Lake Rancheria — were expecting to receive the usual season’s greetings: good tidings and Christmas cheer. Instead, they got eviction notices. When 76-year-old Sid Madjarac received his letter, the first thing he thought about was…
Pile On Bill
There’s a damning leader on Bill Clinton in this week’s New Republic. (Subscription required, proles.) It’s entitled “Reduced Bill”: The post-presidency is usually a good phase of a president’s life. At their best, these retirees largely extricate themselves from factional politics and remake themselves as servants of the common good. That’s basically what Clinton has…
Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park News
On Tuesday, Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park resident Cory Holderman asked the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors for help. According to a report in the Times-Standard, the board voted to direct the Economic Division of Humboldt County Community Development Services “to assist in identifying and preparing grant applications and/or other funding sources for relocation assistance, if…
Humboldt’s Biggest Export to China
Not really. It turns out that the Chinese have their own Sasquatch and he/she lives in the forests of Hubei Province (central China). If you haven’t read it already, check out the Journal’s recent Bigfoot exposé. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.470602&w=425&h=350&fv=playlist%3Dno%26branding%3Dno%26imgPath%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fi.current.com%2Fimages%2Fepg%2Ftravel%2Fsearching_for_bigfoot%2F1_400x300.jpg%26vidPath%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fv.current.com%2Fvideo%2Ffeeds%2Fbroadcast%2FPods%2FPD05%2F323%2FPD05323.flv%26autoplay%3Dtrue] from current.com posted with vodpod
Marin Judge Issues RR Injunction
Marin County Judge James R. Ritchie did the expected thing earlier this week, issuing an injunction on all new repair work at the south end of the North Coast Railroad Authority line. The judge appears to have thrown the authority a small bone: In his preliminary order, he proposed a cutoff date of Oct. 15,…
Outsider artist left out in the cold…
Apropos of our recent story about Northcoast visionary artist Reuben Sorensen, who some claim is an outsider artist, the other Journal (from Wall St. not G. St) sheds new light today on just how hard it is to get into the outsider world. NEW YORK — This morning, Ross Brodar plans to rent a 24-foot…
Children’s Services Organizes
Following up on our Jan. 10 story about a union drive Northcoast Children’s Services: Organizers just sent out a press release announcing that the drive was successful. Get the press release here (.doc). Northcoast Children’s Services is an umbrella organization that provides all manner of assistance to children and their parents. It has a $10…
A conversation with Myra Melford
You could say 2007 was a good year for jazz pianist Myra Melford , who released two different albums that garnered acclaim and landed on jazz critics’ top 10 lists. Spark ! , for the Palmetto label, paired her with reed player Marty Ehrlich . On Big Picture (for Cryptogramophone ) she worked with bassist…
Bill Has A ‘Dream’
Classic NY Post — not one of their all-time greatest, but definitely pretty darn great. Don’t miss it.
Awesome New Blog
If these walls could talk! Or better yet — blog! Check out the hottest new entry into the Humboldt County blog scene: Eureka Guest Apartment . It’s smoking hot and happening and it’s for the hip kids of today. Especially if their parents are coming to town.
Willow Creek: The Comic
Mention the name Willow Creek and one thing immediately comes to mind: Bigfoot. If you’ve visited the area, you can easily imagine the stench-ridden man-ape living an elusive life in the surrounding mountainous forests as the townspeople happily go about their day. When 33-year-old Los Angeles writer Christian Beranek visited the town in April 2007,…
‘Fish and chips’
After two years of sometimes tense discussion, the 26 disparate stakeholders participating in the Klamath Basin settlement talks released a proposed agreement Tuesday that they say provides for the diverse needs of irrigators, fishermen and Indian tribes. Craig Tucker of the Karuk Tribe is calling the Proposed Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement a "fish and chips…
Ferndale Redeemed
Ferndale therapist Stuart Altschuler got exactly what he wanted for his birthday: On Monday night the Ferndale City Council voted 4-1 to approve a home occupation permit for his psychotherapy office. That permit has been at the center of a four-month debacle involving Altschuler, his neighbor Shannon Leonardo and Shannon’s uncle Rich Leonardo, who questioned…
A Professional Birdwatcher
Last summer, I went out with my friend Elias Elias to count marbled murrelets, the small, endangered water bird that nests on old-growth tree limbs. We tented the night before in the Prairie Creek campground and got up at 4 a.m. to count the birds as they left the forest for their salty breakfast at…
Plus ça change
By capitalizing the "S" in the middle of BeauSoleil, the Cajun band’s name becomes beautiful sun, but the truth is the band is named for an Acadian resistance fighter. Joseph Broussard Beausoleil fought the English in the mid-1700s during what is known as The Great Upheaval (or Le Grand Dérangement), when a British governor removed…
Full Circle
We’re counting down the days now to Jan. 30, when — as noted last week — plans for the reorganization of the bankrupt Pacific Lumber Co. are due to be filed in federal bankruptcy court. On that day, we plan to plunge headfirst into a mountain of technical and legal documentation, hoping against hope that…
Jesus Christ Superstar
Live performance at HSU’s Van Duzer Theatre, Jan. 8. The night lurked, heavy with portent, as a sickly white substance filtered through the theater’s airspace and settled ever so lightly about the seated audience, who breathed in and breathed out. In. Out. The lights were still on, so this was odd: Every particle of mysterious…
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay in Denial
A Graphic Novel by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan. Seven Stories Press As the World Burnsspares no shame. Derrick Jensen’s sharply worded satire delivers a litany of reasons — channeled through the dialog of two girls in pigtails and a one-eyed bunny — why our culture’s alienation from the wild is literally paving the way…
The Wire
HBO series Produced by David Simon HBO’s The Wire, now in its fifth and final season, may be the most critically acclaimed television series nobody knows about. In addition to receiving a Peabody award, the police drama has been rated the best in its genre by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, TIME,and…
What is Our Bedrock?
Our bedrock consists of an exceptional diversity of rocks spanning over 100 million years of history. The diversity is due to our location at the convergent boundary between continental and oceanic plates. To enjoy this diversity you should visit Trinidad Beach, where the "Franciscan" subduction complex consists of a mix of rocks from both plates.…
The Joy of Cookbooks
Back in June, Journal publisher Judy Hodgson took a stroll down cookbook memory lane in this space. Her story about a meal she’d made for her husband’s birthday touched on favorite recipes and their sources, in particular her worn-out copy of The Silver Palate Cookbook (held together with rubber bands) and The Playboy Gourmet, a…
Up North?
Do the Inuit suffer from light deprivation?…
Pith and Treacle
Previews I can’t think of a better couple to buy meat pies from than Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, particularly when the main ingredient isn’t exactly legal. Opening Friday, Jan. 18, is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, based on the musical by Stephen Sondheim from an 1840s serialized story. Directed by…
