Two if by sea
An effort to create offshore wilderness areas has some fishermen sharpening their spears.
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Two If By Sea
This summer, a nonprofit outfit called Ecotrust will be going around the North Coast asking fishermen to reveal their favorite ocean fishing spots. The interviews are part of a process to determine where to establish marine protected areas (MPAs) in state waters — from shore to three nautical miles out. California is mandated by the…
Grand Jury Clears Nielsen
Prez. The Grand Jury report hinted at in this week’s cover story about friction in the Eureka Police Department has just been released, and what do you know? The GJ sides almost entirely with reforming Chief Garr Nielsen against his detractors. Some money quotes: As a result of its investigation, the Grand Jury found the…
Richmond on HSU Campus Fiscal Emergency
week.Richmond on HSU Campus Fiscal Emergency: The campus is potentially looking at $12-$16 million in budget cuts, so HSU President Rollin C. Richmond is taking action: No new equipment (almost), only essential travel for profs and profs-to-be (and recruitment), because they actually have to reduce enrollment, summer school will be treated as Extended Ed (but…
HSU enviro prof Bill Devall – dead
HSU enviro prof Bill Devall – dead: Among other things Devall was an environmental activist, a Professor Emeritus in Sociology, the author of Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered, and a founding member of the North Coast Environmental Center. He died at his Trinidad home last
Food for Thought
chart. Today we offer two food related quotes: “A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.” – Humphrey Bogart “The poisonous rhubarb leaf can take down even the most powerful of men.” – Author unknown How do they relate to each other? What’s the hidden meaning here? A prize…
Michael Tops Billboard Charts
Michael Tops Billboard Charts: Michael Jackson’s death has led to an unprecedented spike in sales of his music with Billboard predicting this week’s charts, to be released Wednesday morning, will show Jackson (or Jackson 5) albums in nine of 10 positions on the Top 10 Pop Catalog Albums
Bottled Owl
In a story in Discovery News online, scientists say habitat loss related to development and logging, as well as the encroachment of barred owls from the north, have likely combined to depress the Northern Spotted Owl’s population to the point of creating a genetic bottleneck. And that can lead to inbreeding. Or loss. Says Robert…
Au Revoir, Delta
Bad news: Cancel your winter ski trip to Utah. Good news: Go ahead and book that ticket to Sundance! The Arcata-to-Salt Lake City route has kinda sorta survived, for now Press release from the county airport: DELTA AIRLINES SERVICE TO HUMBOLDT COUNTY BARELY SURVIVES NATIONWIDE CUTBACK Delta Airlines recently announced that a slow economy nationwide…
My Home
Editor: I am a CNA at Eureka Healthcare and Rehabilitation. This has been my second home for five years now. Having read that slanted article in the North Coast Journal entitled “Immediate Jeopardy” (June 4), I personally feel a pressing need to present some realities for balance. As a court-mandated reporter as well as a…
Fava-rama!
"The original bean of Europe, West Asia and North Africa, has been an important staple food for millennia," is how the Penguin Companion to Food introduces broad (or fava) beans. This historical perspective was unknown to me when, as a child, I watched my mother bring home a bag full of green pods with her…
Water on the Moon?
I’m jazzed about NASA’s latest venture to the moon, which was launched last Thursday afternoon June 18. The main mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), is a robotic spacecraft with the primary objective of surveying lunar resources and identifying possible landing sites for the next, long-overdue human mission, slated for 2020. LRO is a sophisticated…
Humboldt Crabs vs. Fairfield Indians
The 2009 Humboldt Crabs showcased a lot of pep and potential in their opening day victory against the Fairfield Indians. The Crabs are a summer ball league, made up of promising university students who commit to play baseball and represent this community. The Crabs had active bats and hustle on the offensive side. It is…
No Check, Please
Fox News in the background. Light jazz in the fore. Rivulets of speech wash over the click click click of keyboards, are then swept aside by the announcement. "You are approaching a very sensitive metal detector," the voice warns. I am in the Sacramento airport sporting a laptop, an accoutrement of my new job, listening…
Histoire de Melody Nelson (reissue)
The French singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg created a myth of a poet, rascal, provocateur, lady’s man and maverick, using French pop music as a platform. He redefined the concepts of beauty, cool and sexy. His influence has seeped into a wide variety of contemporary musical genres, from Air and Stereolab to Jarvis Cocker, Luna and Beck.…
Water World
It’s not your typical barge. The Waterpod, a floating art project currently plying the waters surrounding the island of Manhattan, is outfitted as be-domed "sustainable, navigable living space." Launched last week from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where initial construction took place, the barge/pod is currently docked at South Street Seaport. The pod’s inhabitants, a group…
Clan of Cave Dorks
Previews They’re baaack. This summer, the battle between those uber-noble Autobots and the wicked-evil Decepticons rages ever on. That’s right. It’s time to strap your self in for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the 2+ hour revival of the universe-shaking conflict between robotic alien species. Shia LaBeouf returns in this sequel as Sam Witwicky, that…
Rebranding Humboldt
What is Humboldt County best known for? This question was posed to more than 100 non-locals at last weekend’s Oyster Festival — 105, to be exact — and if the answer seems painfully obvious — as it did to most respondents — well, that’s exactly what the folks at the county’s Office of Economic Development…
No Dry Eyes
Feel-good story of the week: 51-year-old Eureka resident Brian Connors, a friend of the Journal, has been one of the unluckiest people in Humboldt County in recent years. Back in December 2006 he was laid off from his job at Pacific Lumber. Then company’s then-parent corporation, the infamous Maxxam, promised him and 89 other laid-off…
Fiber, Fiber Everywhere
For years, one of the chief goals of local government and business has been to bring a second fiber optic line into Humboldt County. The hope is that it a redundant line will provide backup service in the event that our main line, which runs along Highway 101, goes down. On a few occassions in…
Ragamuffin Buskers
Hitting the street after Darius and Rose’s cool jazz benefit at the Jambalaya last Friday, I came across a ragamuffin stringband called Treefingers busking in the alcove in front of Garden Gate. They’d come up from Temecula, a not-so-little town halfway between L.A. and San Diego for a show this Friday, June 26, at the…
We Seek Justice
Editor: Thank you for showing a continuing interest in the “high-profile” bicycling death of Greg Jennings, which occurred August 25 of last year. (“Gross Negligence?” June 18). I have a few bones to pick with the last two paragraphs, which contain Mr. Gallegos’ comments about petitions and vengeance. Family, friends, and colleagues of Greg Jennings…
Lies, All Lies!
Editor: It was disturbing to see that Ryan Burns felt that the Town Hall Meeting with the Planning Commissioners was a “four-hour blab-fest” (“Town Holler,” June 18). Perhaps if he had listened and had just plain cared he might have felt differently. He also might have understood more of what was being said. His flip…
