Quantifying Impact
Environmental review for massive Samoa fish farm heads to planning commission
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Quantifying Impact
I n 2019, Nordic Aquafarms approached the county with a unique proposal: Using some derelict land owned by the Harbor District, the Norway-based company wanted to build a giant land-based fish farm, with Atlantic salmon raised in tanks, separated from the waters of the ocean and Humboldt Bay, and marketed all over the nation. As…
Got an Eviction Notice? This California Website Will Help You file a response.
In April, Juan Carlos Cruz Mora received an eviction notice from his landlord that alleged he caused property damage and dirty, unsafe living conditions in the Sacramento suburb duplex he had called home for the last 10 years. He had only five days to file a response in court. Mora, who blamed his landlord for…
California Poised to Restrict Bee-killing Pesticides
Widely used insecticides that harm bees and songbirds would face far-reaching restrictions in California under regulations proposed by the state’s pesticide agency. The new limits would be among the nation’s most extensive for agricultural use of neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides used to kill plant-damaging pests like aphids. The highly potent pesticides have been shown…
Crabs Deal With COVID Curveball and Come Back Swinging
It was another winning week of Humboldt Crabs baseball but the team had to fight through some adversity to make that happen as multiple players and coaches were taken out of action with COVID-19 in the middle of the week. Despite personnel losses, the Crabs only dropped one game as team members made their way…
John Mayer Donates $10K to Redwood Parks Conservancy
Musician John Mayer has donated $10,000 to Redwood Parks Conservancy, the official nonprofit partner to Redwood National and State Parks. “We are so grateful to John Mayer for his generous donation to Redwood Parks Conservancy! John’s donation will support us in our mission to protect and preserve the world’s tallest trees,” the nonprofit wrote in…
National 988 Mental Health Crisis Line Up and Running
The national 988 hotline launched over the weekend, giving those experiencing or witnessing a mental health crisis just three numbers to dial to be connected with intervention services without being routed through a police dispatcher. The new number, which takes the place of the suicide prevention hotline, is part of a national effort to overhaul…
Arcata Council to Consider Unity Statement, Land Acknowledgement
The Arcata City Council will consider Wednesday supporting a “Statement of Unity against Anti-Semitic Messages and all Forms of Hate Speech” in the wake of anti-Semitic flyers found in the city and other areas of the county in recent weeks. While most of the distributions now under investigation occurred around the Fourth of July, a…
Steven Mark Perkins: 1962-2022
Steven Mark Perkins, beloved son, brother, father and friend, died peacefully on July 8, 2022 after a short painful battle with an aggressive form of lung cancer at the age of 60. Steve was born on May 5, 1962 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Eureka, California and spent most of his grade school years in…
NCJ Preview: A Final Fish Farm EIR, Hate in Humboldt and Thai Food in Willow Creek
This week, we’re talking about a new report that attempts to quantify the environmental impacts of what would be the world’s largest on-shore fish farm in Samoa. Meanwhile, a rash of incidents involving hate and bigotry marred Humboldt County’s July Fourth holiday. And finally, Lily’s Thai brings a new dining option near Willow Creek. Hit…
Jack Bryan Ludwick: 1964-2022
Jack Bryan Ludwick (Jack Wright) passed away Wednesday, June 22, 2022, suddenly, and of natural causes, while restoring his home in Gladstone, Oregon. Jack was born December 28, 1964, in Eureka, California, to Vernon Ludwick and Sylvia Riewerts. He was a graduate of Eureka Senior High School, Class of 1983. As a youth, Jack was…
Some Seniors and Disabled People Will Miss Out on New California State Payments
Some 23 million Californians’ bank accounts will get a boost of $200 to $1,050, thanks to a new round of payments approved by state lawmakers. But the payments, aimed at mitigating higher prices for gas and other goods, will leave out lots of low-income Californians. Among those passed over are some seniors, many living on…
Eureka Police: Two Arrest Warrants Issued in Fourth of July Assault
The Eureka Police Department today announced that arrest warrants have been issued for two suspects in a Fourth of July assault of a Black man on Eureka’s waterfront in which he reported being called a racial slur. An EPD news release states a warrant on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and assault by…
Abortion Pills Will Soon be Available on California College Campuses
As California’s efforts to enshrine abortion access continue, the University of California and California State University are working to provide medication abortions on all campuses by Jan. 1. So far, none of the Cal State campuses offer medication abortions, and access within the UC system varies from campus to campus. Both university systems, however, say…
Fourth California Condor Takes Flight in Humboldt County (with Video)
A fourth California condor is now flying free in the skies over Humboldt County. A1, a young male, left the enclosure just before dawn this morning during the third release attempt, according to the Northern California Condor Restoration Program, a Yurok-led effort to return the bird they know as prey-go-neesh to the northern reaches of…
Taika Waititi Takes Thor Over the Rainbow Bridge
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. As I lay in the emergency room on July 3 — with a non-explosives-related digital wound, as I abhor cliché — writing about a Marvel movie was perhaps the furthest thing from my mind. Realistically, I was probably busy scrambling for hand-trauma jokes (Will I ever play the piano? What about…
‘Non-reproductive rights’
Editor: Despite what many in media, including The Journal, are now repeating (at least eight times in “After Roe,” June 30, alone), there have been absolutely no restrictions placed on anyone’s “reproductive rights” by the U.S. Supreme Court or any other legal entity here lately. Examples of reproductive rights being quashed would include things like…
Your Court
Editor: Okay, guys, your turn for birth control. The ball’s in your court. Vasectomies for all! Pat Holbrook, Eureka
Roe v COVID
Editor: As I perused the June 30 edition of the NCJ, “After Roe,” certain phrases assailed me with their irony. I noted: “… those who believe in individual freedom …,” “… if you think we should have self-determination over our own bodies …,” “… the future of our inalienable rights hangs in the balance …,” “government…
‘Disgusting, Disrespectful and Insensitive’
Editor: I’m really tired of seeing a photo of some grinning tourist showing off a bleeding, dead or dying fish in every issue of the NCJ (Fishing). These photos are disgusting, disrespectful and insensitive. In one case, the photo (of a salmon) immediately followed an article on the impacts of the salmon fishery collapse on the Yurok Tribe. Yikes!…
The Nitty Gritty on Sand
During my Washed Up World Tour performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, I wanted to hear funny accents, so I did a Q&A session. Someone asked what’s the most common thing I find washed up on the beach. I said, “Sand.” A big, ugly bastard with bad hair started to boo and others joined in.…
Standing with Sanborn
Standing with Sanborn Editor: I have to agree with Alan Sanborn (Mailbox, June 16) on using civil language in public discourse. Maybe we’re from another generation where foul language had not invaded the public arena as it has today. I feel it degrades the speaker and the listener. Using civil language does not mean that…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): With a fanciful flourish, Aries poet Seamus Heaney wrote, “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb.” I’d love for you to be a pure verb for a while, Aries. Doing so would put you in robust rapport with astrological rhythms.…
May into June 2022
To meet what I lack and to go on, in faith, as if all of the reasons might roll into one healing event. And one fine day my body will spring and all of the reasons might release me. All I lack might meet the reasons I spring in faith as if going on in…
A Holiday Week Marred by Hate in Humboldt
Independence week in Humboldt County saw a series of hateful, bigoted events, spawning multiple criminal investigations from Fortuna to Arcata and the county’s unincorporated areas. The incidents include the assault of a Black man by multiple white men on Eureka’s waterfront after he reported being called a racial slur, the widespread distribution of anti-Semitic flyers…
Hot, Hot, Heat
I’m firing this one off straight from the hip, so no frills, $20 words or political invective. It’s a dang scorcher today, even on the coast, and I don’t intend on spending the daylight looking at a screen, tapping away at a slowly heating keyboard, while the busy sounds of the landscaping industry hums and…
Making a Home at Lily’s Thai Kitchen
Kim Pravong describes herself as a risk taker. One is inclined to believe her after hearing she took over Lily’s Thai Kitchen with only a little experience working for a friend at a restaurant years ago and a couple visits to scope the place out. “If I don’t do it, I never know,” she says.…
Humboldt Ladies MTB Pedals Among the Pines
Sure, it’s “just” a weekly mountain bike ride. Like many groups formed around a common interest and shared challenges, this weekly gathering of women mountain bikers has morphed into a unique community. For years now, every Monday evening, a group of women abscond to the woods on bicycles. On inky dark winter nights, when you…
Klamath Salmon Season Starting to Heat Up
Until recently, it had been somewhat of a slow start to the salmon season on the lower Klamath. And that’s to be expected. The late spring rains that fell in June increased flows and cooled the water. Both scenarios did wonders for the spring salmon, allowing them to make their way upriver to their spawning…
