Delays and cancellations at the Arcata-Eureka Airport (ACV) have caused a community uproar in recent weeks as construction work has taken a key piece of navigation equipment offline. This interruption of service to the airport’s instrument landing system (ILS), which helps incoming pilots navigate in low-visibility conditions, has long been foreseen, but angry travelers, armed […]
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Humboldt, Nicaragua … Whatever
H/t to my colleague Heidi Walters for noticing this homage to globalization.
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Put The ‘Lake’ in Blue Lake
And now, according to a detailed press packet, the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District enters the third, and final, phase of the water resources planning process that it’s calling “Stay With the Flow,” but which is otherwise known, in the local parlance, as “Holy Crap, We Can’t Let the Waterbaggers Get Our Mad.” Just kidding […]
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Pot o’ Green Gold
Where do the arguments for and against legalization peacefully cohabit? Why, in the morally phlegmatic realm of Internet capitalism, of course. Step right up! Are you a grower concerned about your children’s future (and those monthly Escalade payments)? Buy a bumper sticker: Are you a socially permissive budget hound (or utopian hippy)? Buy a bumper sticker: […]
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An Encounter with the Messiah
When I talked with Raj Patel , a couple of years ago about the politics of food scarcity ( Why Does Food Cost More? ), I had no idea he would be proclaimed Maitreya , the Messiah for followers of a New Age cult known as Share International . But there he was on the […]
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Buy local! Holiday gift sure to please
Because what could be better than a piece of Absynth? Quintet, that is. Would you like to give a friend a slot as the sixth member of Humboldt’s renowned* gypsy-jazz-string-happy Absynth Quintet? Or have the erstwhile male models** follow them about for part of a day a la Jonathan Richman in Something About Mary? Or […]
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Eureka feels gassy
This happens periodically, but it’s still worth noting: Eureka has once again taken then title for highest gasoline prices in the lower 48 , according to the American Automobile Association. AAA Northern California spokesman Matt Skryja explains, “California is among those states that have the most noticeable low demand for retail gasoline.” So, wait. How […]
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All God’s Creatures
Meggan Anderson and the window-hurt pigeon The PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — activists who staged a noontime protest today on the F Street Plaza in Eureka arrived with friendly optimism plus a pile of fake green ivy, a curvy near-naked woman painted like a snake and a quiet leaflet-and-sign plea […]
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Trouble at the mall
Not that kind of trouble Gottschalks’ announcement yesterday that they’re filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy means yet more trouble for Bayshore Mall parent company General Growth Properties. A story on NPR this morning elucidated the woes of the nation’s second largest mall operator. If GGP can’t figure out a way to pay off their significant […]
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From the Emerald Triangle to the Emerald Green Valley…
…with pot. Perhaps this papa-sonny pair from Petrolia and McKinleyville, respectively, were lured to the southern Minnesota city by its official motto, “Make It Mankato!” And they did make it there, arriving last week with, allegedly, five suitcases of pot — 28 pounds, street value $100,000 — says the Mankato Free Press. But, they didn’t […]
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Black Friday Addendum
courtesy of Adbusters Around the time this week’s Black Friday story hit the presses, someone pointed out that Nov. 28 is also ” Buy Nothing Day ,” a day of protest against consumerism, originally founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and later promoted by Adbusters magazine. Adbusters suggests: As the planet starts heating up, maybe […]
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Arcata Council passes new pot guidelines
marijuana growing in an Arcata dispensary After a long discussion and some resistance on a couple things — the definition of caregiver, and whether the words “total canopy” should be included as part of the definition of square footage — the council voted unanimously to adopt new land use guidelines covering how medical marijuana works […]