A story in today’s Wall Street Journal (dateline: BLUE LAKE, Calif.) offers a withering indictment of biomass energy plants, with Blue Lake’s own serving as exhibit A. The story opens on the “malodorous brown smoke” that billowed from the plant two years ago (Heidi Walters wrote about it shortly afterward) and goes on to suggest […]
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Addiction Tales From Hoopa
If you haven’t been over to the Two Rivers Tribune website lately, you’re missing out on a powerful collaboration between TRT editor/writer Allie Hostler and New America Media reporter Jacob Simas. In writing and on film, Hostler and Simas take a nuanced, poignant and tough look at addiction, especially to meth, in Hoopa country, from […]
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If you’re going to dump a body in Eureka …
… here’s a jarringly specific go-to location courtesy of the script scribes at the CBS mucho dramatico cop drama Criminal Minds. But first, a little background on this scene from last week’s ‘sode: As part of (we’re guessing) a far-from-standard plea deal, FBI Special Agent David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) must visit an incarcerated serial killer […]
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How I was (temporarily) banned from the KIEM News Channel 3 Facebook page
I arrived at my home on H St. in Eureka Saturday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. and soon found myself sucked into Facebookdom. Scrolling down my newsfeed, I was confronted with the following screaming status update: News Channel 3 A GUNMAN MAY STILL BE ON THE LOOSE IN EUREKA. … SEE WHAT OUR CAMERAS CAUGHT AS […]
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Popular Mechanics gets Kinetic
Popular Mechanics, the magazine for wrench-wielding nerds, features a story this week on our very own mega-exaltation of artsy mechanical nerdity: the Kinetic sculpture race (in case you needed telling). And, somewhat self-consciously and perhaps in need of explaining his attention to this costumed, joyous absurdity, author James Vlahos asks: “Why would people spend hundreds […]
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Access Humboldt Goes Dark
They had to use the Internet to do so, but Access Humboldt announced last night that it’s joining Wikipedia and others in the SOPA strike by going dark from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. today. Here’s the official announcement: Access Humboldt is participating in action to highlight US legislation that threatens commercial censorship of the […]
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Transitions: Journal Announces (Another) New Editor
From Publisher Judy Hodgson: Today Carrie Peyton Dahlberg takes over as editor of the North Coast Journal. I’ll tell you a little more about Carrie below. But first I’d like to acknowledge and thank the entire Journal team for weathering the past several months of transition. In particular, I’d like to single out acting editor Ryan Burns and […]
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National Geographic: ‘How Marijuana Works’
[Note: This is the first of two science-related posts today. Yay for science.] Below is a clip from an upcoming two-night TV special from National Geographic called “Drugged,” which will examine the bio-chemical effects of marijuana, cocaine and ecstasy. Nat Geo says: “Drugged: High on Marijuana” uses visual effects and CGI to take the viewer on […]
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Stick ‘Em Up, Friend
Now the Eureka Police Department wants to be your Friend. Yup, Facebook — www.facebook.com/eurekapd. There you’ll find what you’d expect to find : the wan, spooky scraggled faces of wanted suspects, news releases, and pics of cute Mounted Patrol horses, smashed cars, cats and other such fun stuff. Says the EPD’s news release on its […]