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Congressman. On the Bay.
“You can learn a lot about this community by spending a couple of hours on Humboldt Bay,” said Congressman Jared Huffman, who is here in Humboldt County for a quick President’s Week visit. After meeting this morning with Humboldt State University President Rollin Richmond and others at the college, he took a tour of Humboldt […]
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News from Elsewhere – about us
In case you missed them, a couple of California’s major dailies ran Humboldt-centric stories this week. A travel piece in the Sacramento Bee titled “Arcata both embraces and rises above its cliches” offers a tourist-eye view of Arcata describing it as “a little bit of everything: a college town, a neo-hippie enclave, a haven for environmentalists […]
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Pot Adventure Debut
In the new novel Deadman’s Bust, former Humboldt grower Cory Marchese has written what Blogcritics.org calls “a real page-turner” about two brothers growing pot in the Humboldt hills in 1992: The adventure takes us right into the heart of George H. W. Bush’s “War on Drugs,” the Medellin cartel, rogue cops, and a huge pot […]
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The World Is Yours, Oyster Farmer
The oyster farmer stands in the stern of the small gray skiff, clear-eyed, a bit of smile on his wind-nipped, broad face. Weather’s supposed to turn nasty, but he’s just wearing waders over his jeans, a black cotton sweatshirt under his orange life vest, and a tan ball cap that doesn’t cover his ears. With […]
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Supervisor Mark Lovelace – running for re-election
Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace gathered supporters on the Arcata Plaza Thursday afternoon to announce that he’s running for re-election (see text of speech below), then discussed challenges ahead, among them holding onto the county’s tax money, rural school busing, marijuana policy and smart meters. The last 3 years have been very busy. I’ve […]
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Giants of Nonprofit
Chances are, you’ve spent time inside some of Humboldt’s biggest nonprofits while going about your daily business. Maybe you deposited a check at the local credit union office. Or saw the doc for your pesky sinus infection at an Open Door clinic. Or maybe — let’s hope not — you’ve whiled away tense hours inside […]
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Birth of a Carson Nation
Eureka is finally Oprah-ready. As you may recall, Carson Kressley — ex-queer peepers for straight peeps — worked Humboldt into a frenzy last December while filming scenes for his new Oprah Winfrey Network show Carson Nation. Now, six months later the show is finally debuting next Saturday, June 25 at 10/9c. Here is the episode […]
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HumCo in the New York Times
They say the best movies about American culture are made by foreigners, the logic being that it takes an outsider’s eye to really see things objectively. I’m not sure if I buy that, but I will say that this piece on Humboldt County from today’s New York Times (by Canadian-born, North Carolina-raised author Wells Tower) really […]
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Local Inventor in NYT
We first encountered Eureka inventor Doyle Doss hawking his hummingbird feeder helmets at the Arcata Farmers’ Market this summer (see below). This weekend that invention and more of his work were featured prominantly in “Behind the Many Faces of Innovation 2010,” in the busines section in the Sunday New York Times.
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Humbug This!
A beloved North Coast holiday tradition returneth! For the first time since 2003, the Eureka Inn is home to a heart-warming, humbug-defeating, green behemoth. As mentioned in this week’s Dandy, the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony is today at 4 p.m. and will feature music from the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir, the Humboldt Harmonaires, the College […]
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Oh my God, look at those dragons
Early this morning, at the ungodly hour of 4:30, we were standing in front of the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, waiting for a cab, when a young gentleman appeared, looking slightly disheveled from a night of pre-Halloween partying. He was in his stocking feet, carrying one Timberland boot in his hand. “Where’s your other […]