Views of the Bay
With the candidates for the Bay District board of directors
Cover Story
Views of the Bay
A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into. At least that’s what I’ve always been told. But when it comes to the five candidates running for the Humboldt Bay Recreation and Conservation District Commission, that saying is one of the few things they can agree to disagree with. All of them…
Hoka Hey!
Photo: Associated Press As Hayduke would say. Or maybe he’d just cast a hairy eyeball at all the goodwill on display in Jeff Barnard’s AP piece about the levee-busting up on upper Klamath Lake to make life better for some suckers: “This particular site has been viewed by so many as so important [to the…
Caption Contest
Humboldt County government takes delivery of its new Toyota Prius, first in the fleet of hybrid vehicles it is looking to purchase. That would be one possible caption for this photo. Any others? Press release (.doc)
Pipes Unclogged
See yesterday’s post. It’s all fixed now. Once again, all your Humboldt County favorites can be found in the same RSS feed. Thanks to Kevin and the Yahoo Pipes team for the fix! I get the feeling that it was more than a trivial bit of work.
Redwood Art Association Awards Indifference
Redwood Art Association Awards its Artist Members $2640 in Prizes at its Fall Exhibition EUREKA – The Best of Show Award ($500) was given to ” Walls of Indifference,” a three-dimensional ceramic by Trinidad artist Daniel Frachon. “The Best of Show was immediately apparent as a great example of a spirit house. It is so…
Another Media Alert
This one’s not exactly newsy. More or less a proud parents, local girl in Hollywood thing. A note from the Loncar family of Arcata: Hey Everyone, Mandy [ Amanda Loncar ] is on Grey’s Anatomy Thurs, ABC at 9pm (the blonde fighting it out over a wedding gown!) … Also in Lions from Lambs (Robert…
As Ol’ Salty Used To Say
Today’s Times-Standard editorial on municipal wi-fi takes the default T-S approach: On the one hand, X. But then again, Y. So let’s have all good people come together for a solution that will be mutually beneficial for all, because we hate having to choose sides. However, the editorial kicks off with an arresting bit of…
Polling the Proles
Proving again that she’s one of the savviest players around, Democracy Unlimited Director Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap waits until 1 a.m. on Nov. 1 to send out this press release. Thus avoiding the Halloween jokes. Or so she thought. EUREKA – Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County’s (DUHC) mission is to create genuine democracy in Humboldt County. To…
Clogged Pipes
Apparently there’s quite a few people who make use of the “Humboldt Blogs” Yahoo Pipe that I put together a few months ago. That’s really gratifying, because I love dinking around with software and this is the first time I’ve actually built anything that the general public has found useful. For the uninitiated, the “Humboldt…
Be Mike’s Phone Friend
Want to chat with a real live Congressman? WASHINGTON – This Thursday, Congressman Mike Thompson will host a live town hall meeting via telephone and he is inviting every resident of the 1st Congressional District to join him. Participants will be able to directly ask Congressman Thompson questions about issues that impact the 1st District…
We’re So Proud
others Former NCJ muckracker Cat Sieh is raising hell up in Bellingham, Wash. What happens when a culturejacking fast food chain tries to weasel out of a fair-and-square deal? Cat Sieh busts its ass, that’s what! Result. Way to fight the power, Cat!
Bay District $$$
Six days until the big election, and the story right now is up in the Fifth Division, where incumbent candidate Charles Ollivier is embarking on a big media push. According to papers filed with the Elections Office on Tuesday, Ollivier made a last-minute $5,000 TV buy this week. He also spent $2,300 on a new…
Co-op Controversy on KMUD
Self-proclaimed ” militant, yet peaceful, non-violent revolutionary vegan” activist Martha Devine aka Granny Green Genes writes alerting us to a segment on tonight’s 6 p.m. KMUD news (Halloween edition) on the “Co-op Controversy,” featuring interviews with Dana Silvernale, Co-op activist and Humboldt County Green Party Chair and Co-op Interim General Manager Howard Julien addressing, as…
Don’t Get Comfortable
surfer. Hello, friends! This is going to be the temporary home of the North Coast Journal blog. We’re going to get this party started here on Wordpress before that glorious day when we make the jump to our own homepage. How long will we be here? Maybe a couple of weeks. Probably a month or…
Bitter, Braised Greens
Braising greens at Little River Farms’ stand at the Arcata Farmers’ Market.Photo by Bob Doran What was that old saying — “Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?” Saturday morning I was wondering more about the effect of a night of hail and rolling thunder on the Arcata Farmers’ Market. Anyone who reads…
Why do some rocks resemble Swiss Cheese?
Many rocks along our coast exhibit strange holes. You may be surprised to learn that these holes are bored by marine “Pholad” clams, chiefly for protection from predators. Holes enlarge with depth because each is excavated by a single growing clam during its lifetime of several years. The clams possess specialized muscles with which to…
Peacham’s Autumn (Part Two)
Now he notices the hills have turned…
Tales from the Madaket
Relaunching the Madaket , 1989 The Motor Vessel Madaket harbors a veritable boatload of stories in its weathered Doug fir planks. From 1910, when she was built, to 1972, when the Samoa Bridge went up, the Madaket (originally named the Nellie C ) ferried scores of mill workers and their families and other folks back…
It’s the Algae, Dear
Oh, drear, more gloom and bad cheer — that’s what you’re thinking if you’re a SAD Brit hunkered down in your centuries-old stone house staring out the fortress slit at yet another gray day. What is this mist before your eyes, tears or rain? So you punch on the computer and randomly search for sunny…
Down on the Delta
Looking toward Pedrazzini Park from Cock Robin Island. Photos by Hank Sims. You think of the great Humboldt County outdoors and first you think of one of two things: deep dark redwood forests or stark, windswept beaches. Afterward, you think of the mountains, the oak-and-madrone scrub to our east and south. Then the bay. Dunes.…
Shine
By Joni MitchellHear Music Over the last few years, the successful comebacks of rock icons have become old hat. Dylan, McCartney, Simon and Waits are just a few that have showered us with unexpected brilliance. And when these career resurgences are positioned as anything more than a well-executed money grab, it seems a tad inauthentic.…
Halo 3
Bungie/Microsoft I have a confession to make: I don’t like first-person shooters. Most of the ones I’ve played share the following objective: “Shoot the marines-aliens-terrorists-mutants and escape from the bunker—prison—top-secret facility—warehouse full of crates.” I find this a bit boring. I therefore believe myself uniquely suited to hack my way through the dense jungle of…
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
By Naomi WolfChelsea Green Publishing World-renowned feminist and best-selling author of the landmark The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf is back with The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot , a brief, 155-page look at the historical patterns found in all dictatorial regimes. Extensively footnoted, this book draws out astounding parallels between…
alt. something
Who is Thurston Moore ? As they put it semi-succinctly on the Ecstatic Peace! promo for his latest album, “Thurston Moore [above], for those of you just visiting planet Earth, has been playing music and liberating whatever ossifying standards rock ’n’ roll becomes threatened by since the late ’70s when he walked the downtown jungle…
A Great Film Week
‘La Vie en Rose’ Previews Finally, opening locally on Friday, Oct. 26, is Julie Taymor’s ( Frida ) homage to Beatles music, Across the Universe , a film that uses the Liverpool group’s songs to tell a generational love story. The trailer looks promising. Rated PG-13 for some drug content, nudity, sexuality, violence and language.…
Not on my land!
Photos by Yulia Weeks Until recently, county residents living just outside of Rio Dell’s city limits didn’t think there was any reason to worry about the machinations of Rio Dell’s public works department. But now, because of tightening regulation of the city’s sewage system, some property owners in the bucolic Metropolitan Road area — nestled…
