Buried back in the business section of today’s Times Standard is a story by Ryan Burns “T-S files unfair business practices lawsuit against The Eureka Reporter.” Specifically the suit filed by T-S/Tri-City parent corp California Newspaper Partnership (a division of Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc.) alleges that the E-R has been selling ads at a cut […]
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Programming Note: Broadband
If you’re interested, we’ll be broadcasting today’s Rural Broadband Forum down in Fortuna starting at about 9 a.m. It’s be live at northcoastjournal.com. As always, thanks to The Venue Project. UPDATE: Yes, the seemingly inevitable technical difficulties. We should be with you shortly. UPDATE 2: The sound in the room is pretty much useless, so […]
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Grip and Grin
Why are these people smiling? This week the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors as well as the Eureka and Arcata City Councils adopted proclamations declaring July 1-7, 2008 to be “Independents Week” and calling for residents to support and celebrate the independent, local businesses of Humboldt County. The proclamations were brought forward by the Humboldt […]
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“I’ll have the salmon, please.”
The juicy news today from kabazabagazillionaire-land is that a Chinese investor has made the winning bid — $2.1 million — in a charity auction for a lunch date with Warren Buffett, head honcho of Berkshire Hathaway Inc . which owns PacifiCorp which operates certain dams on the Klamath River that cause quite a few salmon to have a […]
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Eureka declared one of the best
The folks over at the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau want you to know that Outside Magazine selected Eureka as one of the best towns in the America, ranking it No. 8 on a list of 20. The blurb incudes shout-outs to the Accident Gallery , the Boardwalk, the Arkley Center (identified as the […]
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Reggae War officially over
The news hit the SoHum blogosphere over the weekend. This press release (and advert for Reggae Rising) from People Productions makes it as official as it gets: The Dimmick Ranch and People Productions, Tom Dimmick and Carol Bruno, are pleased to announce that they reached a negotiated settlement with the Mateel Community Center on Friday […]
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NCJ Exclusive: ICE in Sun Valley
Sun Valley Floral Farms let go of 283 undocumented workers today after receiving a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week indicating that the employees — from flower pickers to management-level staff — were not eligible for employment in the United States. Sun Valley President and CEO Lane DeVries met with his entire […]
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Mall Shame?
Local conservative radio blogger Tom Fredriksen of Old Glory Radio gave the Journal a ring today to inform us of the filth being hocked in the hallways of the Bayshore Mall in Eureka. In particular, he noticed a shirt in front of Spencer’s facing out towards passersby that read — close your eyes if you’re […]
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Humboldt Auction Yard, Fortuna
From his rustic lectern, Lee Mora, auctioneer and owner of the Humboldt Auction Yard, presides over his cowboy-hat-and-cowboy-boot-clad flock of local ranchers. Ascending prices cascade off his tongue. Cows low and spin in the central corral. The cool air in the windowless interior of the auction yard is a fragrant mix of cow shit and […]
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Harvard wants Humboldt redwoods (update)
from the AP wire service via Forbes online: Harvard endowment wants to take over bankrupt Pacific Lumber Harvard University’s endowment said Thursday it’s interested in buying more than 200,000 acres of timberlands in California as part of a plan to take over logging company Pacific Lumber Co. and bring it out of bankruptcy. An attorney […]
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David Simpson blogs from Corpus Christi
Petrolia resident David Simpson has been down in Texas attending the Palco bankruptcy hearings. This week he started a Community Forest Team blog titled, Dispatches from David . As someone involved in the legal morass , he has an axe to grind — that said, his first hand accounts are insightful and well worth reading. […]
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Don’t Cry For Hurwitz
The Houston Chronicle‘s Loren Steffy dries the tears in his eyes long enough to again sing the tragic tale of one of Houston’s finest, Charles Hurwitz. The occasion is Hurwitz’s recent losses — or are they really wins? — in a couple of court cases, including our own Pacific Lumber bankruptcy case and the reversal […]