Our trusty Congressional mouthpiece, Rep. Mike Thompson, is speaking out on behalf of us backwater yokels, a-scrappin’ and a-hustlin’ for some of that $800 kazillion-berzillion (or whatever) stimulus package. In a letter sent last week to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader John Boehner, Thompson, along with 32 other Congressmembers, argued for the importance […]
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New 2nd District Diff Maps
By popular demand , here are some new maps of the Second District Supervisor race. Like the ones below , they compare June results to November results for each of the three candidates. This set, I think, is more intuitive. (But a bit trickier to calculate.) This time, we just have two colors. Blue is […]
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Second District Election Maps
Here’s a sneak preview of next week’s Journal , offered by way of contribution to a discussion over at Eric’s place . We know that Fortuna apple farmer Clif Clendenen won last month’s runoff election for Second District Supervisor. But where did he win, and how big were his gains (and his competitors’) from the […]
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Election Results: Wrong
The results from the Nov. 4 election that were certified by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Monday were incorrect, according to County Clerk-Recorder Carolyn Crnich in a phone call this morning. Over 200 absentee ballots were not included in the officially certified totals, most of them from one particular precinct in Eureka. The […]
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Mike T for Interior?
Holy moly… NorCal lawmaker pushed for Interior job By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON-A Northern California congressman who hunts, fishes and grows wine grapes is being promoted for Interior secretary by two prominent fellow lawmakers. California Democratic Reps. George Miller and Anna Eshoo sent a letter to the incoming administration in the past week […]
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Try Something Else
Yeah, yeah, yeah . It’s not that it didn’t happen. I’m sure it did. I’m sure it happened many times, in many places. Probably just about as often as the flipside version of it happened , more or less. You can make either case representative, if you really want to. But before you do, go […]
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Prop 8 battle headed for court
Opponents of Proposition 8, the ballot measure titled “Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry,” have not yet conceded defeat. They’re holding out hope that absentee and provisional ballots still uncounted might make up for the fact that “Yes” votes currently outnumber “No”s by around 500,000. In the meantime, No on 8 groups have already […]
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It’s on…
feeding the electronic ballot counter The polls are open. People are voting. Get out there and do you duty. Voting tip: While I was in line waiting to vote in Arcata, a man came in who had received an absentee ballot by mail. He had decided to vote in person instead. To do so, he […]
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Hotcha Papa!
Starkewolf: Naughty Just in from the Sac Bee’s Capitol Alert! Breathy GOP robo-call says Thompson’s been a ‘bad boy’ Voters across California’s first congressional district picked up the phone this weekend to hear a breathy woman intone that “Mike Thompson’s been a bad boy.” With a seductive voice more suited to an escort service than […]
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Arcata Pre-Election Poll
When we hazarded a guess on who might take a seat in the Arcata City Council election, it was admittedly based solely on guesswork. Now, thanks to Prof. Mark Larson from Humboldt State University’s Journalism & Mass Communication Dept. some polling has been done. Here are the results: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A recent poll of […]
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caption correction
Not sure how it happened, but the caption on the photo in the Journal this week illustrating the piece on the Arcata City Council race had the names in the wrong order with Jason Grow incorrectly identified as Gernonimo Garcia. To alleviate any confusion, here’s who’s who: Jason Grow Geronimo Garcia