Well, this is embarrassing: Apparently I’ve been sitting on a humongous color-scheme-change scoop. Over at the Lost Coast Outpost there’s a contest to guess — or, rather, suggest — the Sheriff’s new colors for his cruisers, which will be revealed all nice and proper tomorrow in a press conference, according to a news release posted […]
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UPDATED: ‘Terrorized’: Arcata Planning Commissioner Accused of Drunken Door-Kicking
UPDATE #3: LaRue has relinquished his co-ownership of Redwood Curtain Brewing Co. UPDATE #2: On Friday evening, LaRue sent a statement to the Journal, saying in part: I wish to offer my sincerest apologies to the two women Jen Ables and Maral Attllah [sic]. I would like to assure them that I meant them no harm, […]
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Reelection Made Easy
Journal intern Scottie Lee Meyers submits this report: Arcata residents Jolian Kangas, Valerie Rose-Campbell and Mark Sailors all attempted to run for city council, but according to the city clerk’s office (and as first reported by Kevin Hoover of The Arcata Eye), none of the three challengers managed to collect 20 signatures from Arcata voters and […]
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L.A. Times Says Arcata’s Panhandling Ordinance “Goes Too Far”
In an editorial that’s bound to make the Arcata Chamber of Commerce wince, the Los Angeles Times today came out against the city’s 2010 panhandling ordinance, saying: The city’s frustration is understandable, but its remedy is too broad and too punitive, emblematic of the excesses that many municipalities succumb to in confronting the unsightly but […]
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Eureka Resolves to Reaffirm Commitment to Create Jobs
Last night, the Eureka City Council unanimously voted to adopt a harbor revitalization resolution presented by a community group, but only after it was determined that the document doesn’t legally bind them to do anything. Councilmember Linda Atkins said she was concerned about some of the big-ticket projects listed as goals in the resolution, including […]
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FOUND: Rail Propaganda Data Source [Updated]
Update, 3:20 p.m.: In a follow-up email to the Journal, the Humboldt Bay Harbor Group’s citizen leader, Susana Munzell, confirmed that the data now being used to promote the east-west railroad project is from a 15-year-old study that operated under a very different set of hypotheticals: As I recall, the information came from a study […]
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East-west Rail Propaganda, Anyone?
A resolution on the agenda for tomorrow’s Eureka City Council meeting asks council members to swear allegiance to the riduculous controversial east-west rail proposal, and the resolution is preceded by an almost comically biased “summary” of the issue. (Read the full text in pdf form here.) The agenda item was prepared by members of the Humboldt Bay Harbor […]
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Ferry or Bridge?
A couple winters have passed since the federal department of transportation awarded $120,000 to Humboldt County to make improvements to the McCann Ferry — a couple of winters, and numerous high-water boat trips back and forth across the Eel River by the intrepid boatman and handful of residents who live on the cut-off side of […]
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At the Courthouse: What’s Wrong/Right with This Picture?
Keep on the grass! About five and a half months after it went up, the fence surrounding the Humboldt County Courthouse lawn is gone. A frequent target of Occupy Eureka signage and disdain, the barrier was removed this morning by county officials and the vendor from whom the fence was rented. As you’d expect, occupiers […]
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Old Safeway Morphs Into…
the new Veterans Affairs medical clinic. You might have driven past the shell of the old Safeway on Harris Street recently and wondered what all that construction was about. The Safeway closed when the big new Safeway opened farther up the road. Pierson Company has gutted the old structure and is now upgrading it to […]
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Here Comes American Airlines
A deal has been struck. American Eagle, a subsidiary of American Airlines, will start direct flights between the Arcata-Eureka Airport and Los Angeles International Airport on June 14. The company is expected to formally announce the deal via press release on Monday. Details remain sketchy. County staff has been working furiously with the Redwood Region […]
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Is This Stripped Bike a Crime or an Art Installation?
This year, it seems, the tableau outside the Humboldt County Courthouse has served as a Rorschach test for local residents. Some look at the huddled Occupy protesters and see a righteous social movement — stallwart defenders of justice. Others look at the same scene and see wastrels. Social rot. Some look at hand-drawn signs tied […]