So says Freshwater Tissue’s Bob Simpson, addressing the flurry of attention that followed a post — since removed — by blogger, former mill worker and newly elected Harbor Commissioner Richard Marks. Said post anounced that the mill would fire up again in April. No further information was provided. Here’s the deal: After being denied federal […]
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Mad River Could Beer The Country!
Well, the pulp mill’s officially dead. Now the work begins in earnest to find another use for the raw — meaning untreated — surface water from the Mad River for which the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District has a state permit to deliver for industrial uses. We’re not talking about our drinking water folks — […]
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Pulp Mill Closes For Good
Failure to garner federal stimulus funding means the Samoa pulp mill will close forever, according to a just-issued press release: Green Manufacturing Mill Unable to Obtain Federal Stimulus Funds, Closes Permanently Freshwater Tissue would have created nearly 3,000 green jobs for economically devastated Northern California Humboldt County, CA- Freshwater Tissue, California’s last pulp mill and […]
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In the Zone
Local business owners and accountants gathered this morning at Eureka’s Wharfinger building to have their nerd-wired, number-thirsty skulls ladled full of envigorating tax law concepts like “two-factor apportionment formulas” and “cross-jurisdictional vouchering.” And you missed it, sucker! Actually, if you or someone you’re fond of owns a business in Eureka, you probably should have been […]
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CR May Owe You $$$
subject. Remember that story you read in the Journal in August titled, “Fee-For-All”? In it Ryan Burns detailed how, “For six years, CR illegally heisted hundreds of Hamiltons from students.” It seems the College of the Redwoods was charging students for tests the state had already paid for. Today we received a press release that […]
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Gadget Alert!
resident. Business Week has a story about our very own King of Gadgets, Bob Crane of C. Crane, the Fortuna-based company. You may remember Hank Sims’ curious tale involving C. Crane a few years ago. Anyway, the Biz Week thing’s a candid Q and A, and if you didn’t already like the guy, you just […]
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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 […]
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Save-The-Redwoods Signs Off On Richardson Grove
Attention Jeff Muskrat: The list of corporate cronies being paid off under the table to not care about the dastardly Wal-Mart-driven plan to slightly tweak the course of Highway 101 through Richardson Grove grows longer every day. This time the Save-The-Redwoods League has sold its immortal soul to AmeriKKKan greed! In a letter dated Friday, […]
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Hurwitz Fraud Case Settled
Defense attorney James Brosnahan (center, bald) and Maxxam chief Charles Hurwitz (behind Brosnahan) leave the Oakland federal courthouse Monday, which turned out to be the last day of the trial. Photo: John Geluardi. This just in from Oakland: Parties in the fraud suit against Charles Hurwitz , former owner of the Pacific Lumber Company, have […]
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Second Place
June. At its most recent Tuesday meeting, the Board of Supes appointed Eureka attorney Zachary Zwerdling to the board of directors of the Headwaters Fund, the somewhat embattled body that administers a big pot o’ cash aimed at local economic development. “As a practicing attorney, I would bring years of legal experience to the Board,” […]
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Bosco Dinged By FPPC
The California Fair Politics Practices Commission has fined Doug Bosco, chair of the state Coastal Conservancy, the grand sum $200 for failing to file his his 2007 Statement of Economic Interest in a timely manner. Bosco represented the North Coast in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1982 to 1990. He is currently a principal […]
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MediaNews Misses Debt Payment
MediaNews Misses Debt Payment: Deep, deep in debt and nearing default, the Times-Standard’s parent corporation has reached a deal with creditors that will allow it to (temporarily) forgo payments on its ghastly, ungodly, mid-bogglingly Himalayan debt, reports the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal has a story up too.