Tree Cop
Don’t Trash the Six Rivers Forest, or you’ll be answering to Bobby Phillips
Cover Story
Tree Cop
If you saw Bobby Phillips out of his uniform, you’d probably guess he’s a cop. Shaved-bald noggin. Stern-lip mustache. Solid stance, action ready. Alert eyes. And if you’re one of those people who leans toward the wink-wink side of the law, he might make you fidget. As you should. Phillips is a federal law enforcement…
Another Shaker
Initial reports scored it a magnitude 5.4. It has since been upgraded to a 6.0, though as the map above [ source ] states, the data has yet to be reviewed by human. [Update: It was dowgraded ever so slightly to a 5.9.] This map suggests the temblor occurred along the Mendocino fault zone. The…
Earthquake! 12:20 p.m.
EARTHQUAKE 40.431,-124.929 6.0 on the Richter. 12:20 p.m. 56 km (35 mi) WNW of Petrolia. More info and updates at the USGS.
Convenient. Flexible. And, oh yeah, a total rip-off.
We warned you. And by now, you may have received the first sign of the banking industry’s compulsion to treat you like you’re: a.) stupid; b.) disposable; c.) stupid and disposable. Now look, we like the tellers at the local Chase branches. They’re friendly, helpful, everything you could want when you’re making a deposit or…
AQ kickstarted toward success
A while back, we suggested you try a bit of Absynth. Apparently some of you liked it: The Absynth Quintet reached their Feb. 1 goal of $2,000 ($2,056 to be precise), which means album#3 is officially fully funded! What did the talented fivesome have to say about this monumental outpour of love and support? “Thank…
Former Creamery CEO Ghilarducci to Plead Guilty to Fraud
The Ferndale Enterprise has the scoop.
CR Removed From Warning Status
A press release from College of the Redwoods this morning suggests things may be improving at the turbulent institution (edited): College of the Redwoods received notice on Feb. 1 that it has been removed from accreditation warning status by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). CR was placed on accreditation warning status…
Neely and the Coming Craziness
Holy moly, but does the black ops PR firm known as the Humboldt Mirror ever have a smoking hot story this morning. We would only add that the $10,000 donation from a SoCal developer to the Bonnie Neely for Supervisor campaign seems to have come not from the developer himself, but the developer’s corporation –…
Blue Lake Doubles Down on LCCI
As part of Lost Coast Communication’s deal to buy radio station KXGO (reported here yesterday), the Blue Lake Rancheria will take a large stake in the company, according to an ownership report filed with the Federal Communications Commission. According to the report and LCCI Chairman Patrick Cleary, the rancheria — owner of the Blue Lake…
Personhood and People
Last week’ Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case overturned 100 years of law, and basically conferred upon corporations and other fictitious entities the unlimited right to participate in electioneering and the financing of political campaigns. It extended to these imaginary bodies yet another right of United States citizenship. Where…
Gov. Terminator
Editor: Regarding the “supernatural innocence” that you perceived in Governor Schwarzenegger (“Town Dandy,” Jan. 21): My work for a non-profit agency has allowed me to meet a great many people in Humboldt County. A large majority of them are people with disabilities and/or seniors and a huge percentage of this group are low-income. The people…
Threat Neutered
Editor: It was a fascinating story in the Jan 21 edition of the Journal about the ongoing saga of those incredible mastiffs, Max and Brandi (“Dog Fight”). While reading the sordid details, I couldn’t help but think that if only Scooter had taken the time to have his dogs spayed/neutered, the profit motive of stealing…
Rain on the City
It seems that three is a lucky number for the gifted singer/songwriter Freedy Johnston. His new record of originals, Rain on the City, his first in eight years, is his third attempt at finishing the release. The result is Johnston’s finest recording since the overlooked masterpiece co-produced by T-Bone Burnett and Roger Moutenot, Blue Days…
Devil Makes Three
So much was right about Thursday night’s Devil Makes Three show at the Eureka Theater. The fact that the show sold out — 850 tickets! That it was all ages. The appropriateness of the venue — restoration underway, but not complete — for a band that delivers a new twist on old-timey. Most of all, the…
Corporatize My Garden
I get a lot of marketing materials sent to me by the horticultural industry. In addition to the usual tools and sprays and gadgets, there’s usually some hot new plant that they want to get garden writers excited about. It’s always pitched as the biggest, brightest, bushiest thing to ever hit the market. It’s disease-free,…
Reinventing the Spaghetti Feed
When I started working on the Journal’s calendar about 10 years ago, I was given a rule: We don’t list pancake breakfasts — and no spaghetti feeds. The thought was that there were just too many of them. I eventually changed the policy. It turned out that there weren’t all that many pancakes being flipped,…
Altruism’s Hidden Benefits
I’m an easy mark. If someone in the Plaza wants a dollar for a cup of coffee, I instinctively pull out my wallet, even though I’m pretty sure that coffee isn’t my petitioner’s beverage of choice. Seems that altruism — concern for others without the expectation of a reciprocal pay-off — is quietly at work…
Movie Review
Brilliantly conceived, flawlessly executed, It is the ultimate…
Future Green
We Humboldtians pride ourselves on being an eco-groovy lot: We’ve got cars that run on French fry oil. We pedal ourselves to the farmers’ market. We wear hemp. But with the possible exceptions of HSU’s Behavioral and Social Sciences Building (where rainwater flushes the toilets) and the Arcata Marsh Wastewater Treatment Plant, we have yet…
Nine: Not Quite 8 1/2
Previews Local film fans waiting for something other than Hollywood commercial fare can see both Broken Embraces and The Road this Friday. I saw Embraces in Denver over Christmas and as usual Almodovar and Penelope Cruz make a killer combo. It’s a tragic love story told as a film within a film. Not to be…
Mendo Muddle
"Consensus" isn’t a word that comes to mind with the Marine Life Protection Act, Mendocino County branch. Consider a Monday night meeting in Fort Bragg, where fishermen, seaweeders and enviros convened at St. Micheal’s Episcopal Church to do one thing: figure out which areas along the Mendo Coast to "protect" — that is, which coastline…
Seen and Unseen
When Trevor Hall first started writing songs he was still in junior high and was emulating punk/skater bands like Rancid and NoFX. "But I liked all kinds of music," he said, calling from his home in Laguna Beach. "From there I kind of went into a reggae era — I got into Bob Marley, Burning…
