Artists Inside
Humboldt County is set to pilot a life-changing arts program. Officials hope it will change the jail, too.
With Foundation Report Still Outstanding, Another Justice for Josiah Vigil Planned for Today
Despite continuous inquiries from news outlets and community members at city council meetings, the city of Arcata still has’t received the $30,000 National Police Foundation review of the city’s emergency response to David Josiah Lawson’s fatal stabbing on April 15, 2017, and officials still “don’t have a firm timeline” of when the report will reach…
Eureka Man Killed in 101 Crash
A Eureka man was killed last night in a crash on the U.S. Highway 101 safety corridor. According to CHP, William Clymer, 42, was attempting to turn onto the Indianola Cutoff from the southbound lanes when his GMC Jimmy was hit on the passenger side by a vehicle traveling northbound and overturned. Emergency personnel responded…
Governor Looks to Get CA into the Rx Business
In a bold strategy to drive down prescription drug prices, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing that California become the first state in the nation to establish its own generic drug label, making those medications available at an affordable price to the state’s 40 million residents. The proposal, part of the new state budget Newsom sent…
King Tide Tour Gives Glimpse of Sea Level Rise
Dozens of people gathered in the rain at the Arcata Marsh on Saturday, Jan. 11, to view the highest tide of the year and listen to a discussion on how it can be seen as a preview of sea level rise and the effects it will have on both the city of Arcata and the…
Dramatic Video Shows How Sneaky Sneaker Waves Can Be
The destructive power of sneaker waves was on full display this past weekend, with a near miss at Moonstone Beach in Trinidad and a heartbreaking tragedy in Oregon, where two children — one of whom died while the other is missing — were swept off of a beach with their father, who survived. The Humboldt…
HumBug: Even Parasites have Nightmares
Some experts assert that the most common lifestyle in nature is that of parasitism. (Read Rachel Nuwer’s interview with ecologist Kevin Lafferty “Parasitism is the Most Popular Lifestyle on Earth” for more on this.) The world of arthropods is no exception. I’ve mentioned before that mankind’s deadliest opponent in nature is the synergistic combination of mosquitoes…
NWS is Looking for Snow Reports
The county of Humboldt is reminding travelers that there’s snow up in the mountains, including 4 inches of new snow on Titlow Hill Road — which is open to the towers — and 2 inches of new snow on Bald Hills Road. Drivers are being advised to carry chains. Meanwhile, the Eureka office of the…
10 Years Later: The Earthquake of 2010 (With Video)
Ten years ago, at 4:27 p.m., the earth let loose a magnitude-6.5 earthquake — with much of the force directed at the city of Eureka — with a powerful ferocity that shook the ground and people’s nerves. Thousands in Humboldt County lost power after the temblor hit and nearly 500 structures, including the historic Old Town Bar…
Gone After Dinner
Cork-down wine bottle chandeliers light Marcelli’s Italian Restaurant from the chipped green linoleum counter on one side to the corner that was once walled off during the spot’s time as an Italian deli but is now decorated with framed news articles. Outside the front windows, cars flash by on Fifth Street’s three lanes as a…
Arts! Arcata
Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at locations in Arcata. Visit www.arcatamainstreet.com, check out the Arts! Arcata event on Facebook and Instagram, or call 707-822-4500 for more information. MOONRISE HERBS 826 G St. “Intentions and Beliefs,” Danielle Orr, acrylic paintings; music by Good Company; nonprofit wine pour…
The Grudge isn’t Worth Holding Onto
Reviews THE GRUDGE. Having emerged from what has disconcertingly become a New Year’s tradition of spending the holiday and the week bracketing it, sick abed, I recoiled, mole-like, from an atypically gorgeous January day. There had been rain overnight but it had given way to the sort of limitless cerulean horizon people rush out to…
‘A Very Groundbreaking Thing’
Want to invest in a cannabis farm? Well, all you have to do is buy some stock. Santa Cruz-based Goldenseed has become the first cannabis farm in the nation to be cleared for a public stock offering by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with shares hitting the market at $100 apiece. While the stock…
We Can Drive 55
Editor: Hooray for Mitch Trachtenberg’s letter regarding lowering the county speed limit to 55 mph (Mailbox, Jan. 2, 2020). This is an excellent suggestion for a simple and easy way to reduce our production of CO2. Yes, there will be some inconvenience, but if we’re to deal with climate change, such inconveniences will have to…
The Time is … November
Editor: Congratulations to the NCJ, Jennifer Fumiko Cahill and Thadeus Greenson for an outstanding editorial on the impeachment of Donald Trump (“The Time is Now,” Dec. 26, 2019). The factual evidence is well organized, clear and concise. Unfortunately, the time is not now because Mitch McConnell and his Senate sycophants do not have the moral…
Except the Corn Dog
Editor: Just wanted to say thank you for the gift of the calendar I found tucked in the Dec. 26 edition. It is a thoughtful, one-of-a-kind gift, and especially so because each month’s photographs capture the essence of why it is fun to live here. It is good for us all to be reminded of the treasures that abound: the natural…
Does My BMI Make Me Look Fat?
OMG! My BMI (body mass index) just jumped from under 24, where it’s been for years, to more than 24. It’s only a matter of time before it tops 25, meaning, according to the World Health Organization, I’ll be overweight. Not obese — that doesn’t happen until it reaches 30. What happened? My weight didn’t…
Climate Change
You use less water Have no son or daughter Eat less meat Rely on your feet But industry dwarfs So the climate morphs A tipping point reached A levee is breached To an ostrich we relate For it may be too late Garrett Snedaker
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When comedian John Cleese was 61, his mother died. She was 101. Cleese testifies, “Just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.” I bet you’ll experience a similar phenomenon in 2020 —…
Artists Inside
Tucked in the golden rolling hills of the Tomales Bay watershed, a dozen miles north of Mt. Tamalpais, sits the Marin Museum of the American Indian in Miwok Park. Henry Frank, the museum’s vice president, sits beneath a canopy of redwoods in late October while scrolling through his phone for photographs he took of hawks…
The Wild Weather of 2019
Looking back at 2019 from a weather standpoint — it seemed things were a bit on the wild side. So, the Journal reached out to climate specialist Matthew Kidwell in the Eureka office of the National Weather Service, who compiled what he saw as the most notable weather incidents to take place last year. Along with…
Dust into Dust
In 1859, when Edward Fitzgerald published his English translation of the collected poetic quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, the Persian polymath from what is now Northeastern Iran had already been dead for more than seven centuries. The Rubaiyat was a popular hit with a Victorian English audience thirsting for the romantic Orientalism Edward Said would…
