UPDATE: Covered California Has Extended Deadline to Friday, Officials Say New Subsidies and Eligibility Requirements Are Available
UPDATE: The state has extended the deadline to sign up and receive Covered California coverage beginning Jan. 1 until Friday due to a surge in enrollment. According to a press release, “Covered California saw tens of thousands of people sign up for coverage” beginning late last week. “Open enrollment is full-steam ahead, and this year’s…
UPDATE: Possible Flooding at High Tide Today Due to High Surf
UPDATE: Heads up, the Eureka office of the National Weather Service is reporting that some lower lying areas could see minor flooding as high tide hits around 11:40 a.m. due to large surf. Among those most likely to be affected are zones around Humboldt Bay, “particularly” King Salmon and the Arcata Bottom. PREVIOUS: The Eureka…
Intense Effort to Rescue Injured Hoopa Forestry Service Worker
At times the crews intent on assisting an injured forestry service worker in the Big Hill Road area of Hoopa on Monday had to crawl through brush on their hands and knees, said Rod Mendes, chief of Hoopa Fire and Office of Emergency Services. He said that while the rescue began at 9:30 in the…
No Local Crab Before the New Year
The commercial Dungeness crab season off of Humboldt, Mendocino and Del Norte counties has been delayed again at least until Dec. 31 due quality tests that “continue to show crab are below the minimum testing guidelines.” According to a California Department of Fish and Wildlife release, another round of testing will take place around Dec.…
Three Years After Jennika Lee Suazo Was Found Dead, Her Family Awaits Justice
Three years ago today, 18-year-old Jennika Lee Suazo was found dead in her home on P Street in Eureka. She was last seen on Dec. 8, 2016. After her cause of death was determined to be asphyxia, the Eureka Police Department began investigating her death as a homicide. Her mother, Jennie Lee Seipp, said that…
Helicopter Rescue Underway for Injured Forestry Worker in Hoopa
A Hoopa forestry worker slipped down into a ravine off Big Hill Road and received serious injuries about 9:30 this morning, according to Rod Mendes, chief of Hoopa Fire and Office of Emergency Services. He said the man rolled about 300 feet from where he slipped. “He is about 2,000 feet down from Big Hill…
Trump Administration Food Stamp Cuts Will Hit 3,600 in Humboldt
The Trump administration has announced that it will be changing food stamp eligibility requirements, which could cut nutrition assistance to 688,000 Americans, including more than 3,500 in Humboldt County. On Dec. 4, the administration announced it would be eliminating waivers that allow counties with high unemployment rates to allow able-bodied adults without dependents who work…
HumBug: Preserved for Posterity
I recently did something I haven’t done in a long time. I went looking for glow worms in my backyard. Locally I’ve found them to be amazingly common in the leaf litter beneath our local redwoods but lately they had been absent from our usual haunts. This time though, I was greeted by at least…
Photos: Dell’Arte’s ‘Return to Oz’
The 39th annual Dell’Arte 2019 Holiday Show: Return to Oz is now at one of the many traveling and free venues coming up before its return to Blue Lake in two weeks. The storyline of Dorothy as an angst-ridden, friendless, guitar-playing teenager (you likely know one or used to be one) begins with her unhappiness…
AG Won’t Take Lawson Case
The California Attorney General’s Office has informed Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming that it will not be taking responsibility for any possible prosecution related to the 2017 killing of David Josiah Lawson. “Absent a reusable conflict of interest, the Attorney General’s Office generally only takes over a prosecution handled by a district attorney when…
the cosmos
the bumble bee unlatches from the folds of a cosmos where it slept last night while I slept nearby inside a plastered wooden box I don’t know why I call it home one morning I may forget who I and begin to buzz and wobble maybe I too will lift from a cosmos and disappear…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In composing this oracle, I have called on the unruly wisdom of Vivienne Westwood. She’s the fashion designer who incorporated the punk esthetic into mainstream styles. Here are four quotes by her that will be especially suitable for your use in the coming weeks. 1. “I disagree with everything I used…
FDA: CBDon’t
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a stern warning this week about the potential dangers of cannabidiol, the cannabis-derived compound sweeping the nation. Commonly known as CBD, the non-psychoactive cannabinoid has been the subject of a wellness craze that has credited it with everything from treating acne and joint pain to cancer and neurological…
Flash Fiction 2019
It’s only 99 words — what could happen? Evidently a lot. Entries in this year’s flash fiction contest gave us talking animals, zombie apocalypses, young love blooming, old friendships withering, family reunions and familial shunning. The breadth of these tales belie their humble size, much to our judges’ delight. Along with myself, returning for duty…
The (Single-Payer) Elephant in the Room
There’s the ancient Buddhist story about blind men describing an elephant. One grasps the tail: “An elephant is like a rope.” One has an ear: “An elephant is flat and floppy.” Another, a leg: “An elephant is like a tree trunk.” These isolated conclusions do not describe an elephant. This has relevance to what people…
Trinity River Under Siege
While local tribes celebrated a federal appellate court ruling last month upholding their senior water rights on the Klamath River, a trio of threats facing the Trinity River combine to paint a foreboding picture for local salmon populations. “Just the status quo is a risk to the river and the fishery,” said Thomas Stokely, a…
One Word: Plastics
Editor: Regarding “Recycling’s New Reality” (Nov. 21). I couldn’t help but notice the word “plastic.” I mean, maybe six or eight times in almost every paragraph? It is obvious that plastic is the recycling industry’s major stumbling block. But plastic is in nearly everything. From toys to tools, packaging to parts, building materials to machinery…
Being Here
I had a one-two punch this week: On Sunday I got to see a beautiful brand new little baby that my friends made and on Monday I spent time in the ICU at St. Joseph Hospital visiting an older friend who is having a tough time after a very invasive cancer surgery. I hope to…
What’s Woke
Editor: Mr. Yeo used the word “woke” to shape his Nov. 7 column (“Love the Alien”). What is woke and what isn’t? The Nov. 14 Ana Daksina and Jake Pickering letters mocked it (Mailbox). Woke is a new take on the word as Webster’s had it in 1998. I suggest woke could mean living daily…
Gathering Chestnuts in Late Fall
Although it was late autumn, the afternoon sun was still hot in Willow Creek. I brought my friends along to McIntosh Farm for our first chestnut gathering. Since we had no experience with the spiny husks, we only brought latex gloves. Luckily our host provided us some thick garden gloves. Stomping, pulling, picking and avoiding…
The Landscape Gives You Information
When you think about landscape, it’s hard to get past the Impressionists. This has been true for more than a century, ever since Manet, Monet, Pissarro and the rest of the gang who showed at the Salons des Refusés in the 1870s and 1880s reinvented representation with their small, luminous, rough-hewn canvases. In the 20th…
Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org 707 BAR First and C streets. Music by Dr. Squid. A TASTE OF BIM 613 Third St. Maggie Draper, artwork. ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront St. Paul…
Brave Girls
Return to Oz After battling high winds on State Route 299, I was braced for Dell’Arte’s 2019 holiday show, Return to Oz, and the on-stage hurricane that carries Dorothy away from the world where Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, and everyone at school think she’s a little crazy and back to a version of L. Frank…
Knives Out is Razor Sharp
Reviews KNIVES OUT. Classic mystery fans are an odd lot. We gleefully watch fancy people in drafty estates stab, shoot, garotte, bash, poison and shove one another down ornate staircases. It’s a genre that rewards conformity and low stakes: the parsing of clues, red herrings and the big reveal. Do I even want to see…
Crosswinds
Editor: As your Nov. 21 editorial (“Protect Tsakiyuwit, Deny Terra-Gen’s Wind Farm”) states, “due to Terra-Gen’s ownership’s other investments, its proceeds could well be used to fund other power sources that will continue to pollute the environment.” This reality undercuts the Terra-Gen’s entire project. The wind farm will worsen, and hasten climate breakdown. It is…
Black English
“Black English … is a kind of tune-up of the English language. Some of the needless complexities are wiped away, just as happened all along the journey from Proto-Indo-European to English.” — Linguist John McWhorter Thanks to rap music, the internet, countless TV shows and movies, and just living in a mixed society, we’re all…
