There’s been some clamoring of late for the Journal to publish its letters online. Folks, it’s coming. Trust me, it’s coming. In the meantime, we’ll give you a taste of how it’ll work by posting a letter we received about this week’s issue. Enjoy! Editor: In Hank Sims’ “Town Dandy” column of March 20, the […]
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Klam Dam-Blam Angers Bucket Man
Meanwhile, in the dry uplands to our east, another supervisorial race has grumbled into low gear with one Leo Bergeron, a long-time Siskiyou County rancher, insurance salesman and genuine Bucket Brigadier, tossing his cap into the ring for the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors’ First District seat. It was the latest Klamath River restoration agreement […]
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Fortuna Moment
OK, so, the Fortuna City Council was well into its agenda Monday night, in what would be a four-hour meeting after all was said, ranted and done, when Sean Armstrong, project manager for Danco Communities, stood up to answer some questions about his company’s plans to build low-income housing on land the city had bought […]
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Where’s My Agenda!
The County of Humboldt, drunk with power and out for a heavy-metal joyride, today seems hell-bent on pushing the envelope of the Brown Act to its very limits. Here it is 4:30 p.m. Friday, and no agenda posted for the Tuesday morning meet. Where’s my agenda? Meanwhile, the City of Eureka is up and at […]
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King’s pretty new map
Tim Daniels, of the Bigfoot Bicycle Club, just sent out a note on the club’s message board that the BLM-Whitethorn office has uploaded a map of its emerging mountain bike trail in the Paradise Ridge region of the King Range National Conservation Area. The trail won’t be completed until this fall, but there are some […]
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Save the other Grizzly
Worried about that huge padlock that may be clamped onto the entrance to Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park once — if — the guvnr shuts ‘er down, along with 47 other beloved state parks across California? That’s his idea, as part of a budget nip that critics say will save little but wound many. Well, […]
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Thompson Blasts Maxxam
… relatively speaking. Of all the position statements filed by politicos in the Pacific Lumber bankruptcy — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and now Rep. Mike Thompson — Thompson’s, submitted on Friday, comes closest to actually taking a position on the case. As with all political communications, you have to read between the lines. […]
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‘Til Tuesday
The Board cannot state more ardently the importance of Redwood Memorial Hospital and keeping the hospital operating. They’re throwing around a lot of money over there at the County of Humboldt. Perhaps they should think about hiring an editor. They do come cheap. The sentence above was taken from a draft letter from the Board […]
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Your Tuesday Tedium
In other words, what’s on at the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors and the Eureka City Council next week. We’re going to try to make this a regular Friday afternoon feature on the Blogthing. As a way to make those hellishly painful final hours of the work-week even more painful, we will delve deep into […]
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Be It Hereby Proclaimed: Rep. Mike is down with the weed
This just in: Proclamation “To be presented @ 11 AM today at Mike’s office on 3rd and D street in Eurkea (sic).” PROCLAMATION of Congressperson Mike Thompson’s Awareness and Support of Medical Cannabis. Whereas Americans for Safe Access is the nation’s largest organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal […]
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A Standardized Test
Faced with dueling press conferences, yesterday we wondered — how many notables would attend the California Education Coalition’s emergency summit on the proposed $4.8 billion cuts to K-12 education? And how many would instead head over to Democratic Central Committee HQ for the Patty Berg-Wes Chesbro lovefest? Well, this reader-submitted photo tells the tale. At […]
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booyakasha!
Get out your calculators, y’all — it’s raining money ! Congress just signed on to the daft plan to cut a big fat check to everyone in the nation with earned income (sorry, Tad — 🙁 .) Looks like we’ll all be getting ours in May. We’re talking $600 per person, and $300 for each […]