v. You may have noticed that plenty of folks have not yet taken down their “Yes on 8” or “No on 8” yard signs or peeled off their “8 is Hate” bumper stickers. That’s cuz this thing ain’t over. This slide show was the Courage Campaign’s reaction to Ken Starr’s from-the-top-rope flying leap into the […]
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News Flash on Prop 8
Prop 8 protest in Eureka – photo by Kim Sallaway The Sacramento Bee reports that the California Supreme Court will consider issues brought by those opposed to Proposition 8 . They’ll be looking at three things: Whether Prop 8 is a revision of the California Constitution when it should have been an amendment. If it’s […]
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Live Blogging from Blogger’s Picnic!
We’re down here in Rio Dell at the Blogger’s Picnic , and since the city is famously wireless , we’ve managed to find a hot spot for live blogging. Heraldo showed up in full chef regalia and has fired up his very cool grill to cook up some gourmet dogs: Heraldo's hemi-powered grill Meanwhile Carson […]
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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 […]
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The Wire creators on how to end the Drug War
The best show on TV — ever — ends its five-year run tonight. I’m not going to go into detail on why you should watch The Wire , let’s just say it’s offered us a glimpse of the dysfunctional state of the inner-city we haven’t seen elsewhere and are not likely to see again. In […]
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Has Gallegos Appealed to the Supreme Court?
Seems like I’ve been saying this a lot lately, but I’ll say it again: Help me out. Lawyers especially, this time. Look at the last two items on the list, here. Is District Attorney Paul Gallegos trying to take his Pacific Lumber lawsuit to the California Supreme Court? Interesting, too, to note that the Appellate […]
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Dramatic New Palco Plan
Judge Richard S. Schmidt only alluded to it briefly in Thursday’s hearing, but a new player has entered the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy proceedings. This party brings an audacious, out-of-the-box plan for the future of the 150-year-old Humboldt County timber company to the table. Rio Dell resident and Humboldt County blogospherian Steve Lewis has officially entered […]
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Scotia For Sale
Sharp-eyed Blogthing reader “Lou” — who wins instant promotion to our MVP Reader Team — noticed yesterday that nine commercial properties in downtown Scotia have been listed for sale on the Humboldt County Multiple Listing Service . (No direct links, unfortunately. Search for Scotia properties.) The buildings in question include the Pacific Lumber HQ, the […]
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Blog on Blog Ruling
Shasta County Superior Court Commissioner Gary Gibson has rejected a request from a reporter at the Record Searchlight in Redding seeking a restraining order against a former friend turned blogging nemesis. Beth Doolittle-Norby’s blog, “No Phat Pink Chicks,” pokes fun at journalist Christy Lochrie’s reporting, looks and personality, according to an AP report , which […]
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That’ll speech ’em.
Seems the stuffy old TriMet folks — you know (or perhaps you don’t), the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon — have refused to let the Karuk Tribe run a decidedly anti-Klamath-dams ad on their public buses. So today the Karuk, ACLU and Friends of the River turned around and slapped TriMet with a free […]
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Reggae Hearing Continues — Today
The headline on the page 2 story in this morning’s Times-Standard reads, ” Mateel hearing to continue later this month.” It would appear that the story was written last week, but held until today, which makes the past/future tense parts a tad confusing. T-S staffer Jessie Faulkner writes, Retired Judge James Warren of San Francisco, […]