The median price of a house sold in Humboldt County has dropped to its lowest level since March of 2004, according to data released today by the Humboldt Association of Realtors (HAR). The October value of $238,000 represents a 32 percent decline from the peak of the housing bubble — in March, 2006 — when […]
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Humboldt County Has Received $121M in Recovery Funds
$121,125,647 to be (more or less) exact. That’s how much of Uncle Sam’s money flowed into Humboldt County between February 17, 2009, and September 30, 2010, as a result of President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. And the vast majority of that cheddar has been in the form of grants. If you […]
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The Hell That Is Los Angeles Now 40 Minutes Closer
Good news for the movers and shakers, those insufferable people who are always jetting off from ACV to points around the world: Starting in December, Horizon Air is going to offer direct flights both from and to beautiful Los Angeles! This is indubitably an upgrade of sorts. Used to be, to get to Lipstick City one was […]
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Welcome, Market Square
There was a pretty impressive turnout at the dedication of Eureka’s new C Street Market Square earlier this morning, and why not? The square, located down at the bay, was the first-phase roll-out of the City’s biggest and most impressive new public space since the construction of the Boardwalk, which it borders. By this time […]
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Crowdsourcing the Weed Market
You ever read or watch a news story in which they mention the “street value” of some marijuana bust and think to yourself, “That doesn’t sound right”? Of course you have. And so have the guys behind priceofweed.com, a website and blog that’s compiling and reporting market data on marijuana sales from all over the […]
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Humboldt’s Changing Economy
The latest issue of the Humboldt Economic Index offers some fascinating nuggets of information. For example, the composite index (a sketch of our overall economic health) reached a 16-month high in June. On the other hand, the report states that, “All three leading indicators [unemployment insurance claims, building permits and help wanted ads] point to […]
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Cashed Out Already?
The common wisdom these days goes like this: Legalization of marijuana will likely reduce Humboldt County’s cash crop industry to ashes (unless we get creative ). Well, according to a story today from The California Report , the bottom may be falling out of the pot market regardless of its legal status. A glut of […]
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State Senate Pres In Town
… along with Assemblymember Noreen Evans, our (all-but-certain) next state senator. They’re here to talk about the state budget crisis, cutbacks and Humboldt State University’s economic impact on the local community. Assemblymember Evans and Senate President Pro Tempore Steinberg to Meet with Humboldt State University Officials Roundtable Discussion on Economic Benefits and Jobs from Investments […]
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Buy American Pot
As addressed in Kym Kemp’s cover story and Hank’s latest Town Dandy , many locals are fretting about legalization summoning economic ruin upon Humboldt County. Could very well happen. But what are the implications of this argument ? The comedic minds behind Reason TV imagine an honest campaign from the American Marijuana Growers Association:
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C’mon, Google Broadband!
C’mon, Google Broadband!: Humboldt County’s Redwood Region Economic Development Commission launches its bid to bring the Google municipal mega-broadband initiative to our fair county. Their finely crafted pitch to our new Google overlords gets in plenty of well-deserved digs at the goofball yokels who have jumped into lakes and renamed their towns to win the […]
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Surreal Estate
Yesterday the Times-Standard continued its tradition of leaving real estate market analysis to those who have a vested interest in said market. (See remarkably similar examples of T-S -published Realtor Pollyannaism here and here .) This time around, Coldwell Banker Cutten Realty agent Jill MacDonald set about answering this recurring query: “Is the real estate […]