“Are you prepared to kill a man tonight?” “No.” “Are you prepared to die tonight?” “No.” “Then put the gun away and we will decide whether we call the police or go outside and try to help out.” I was age 15. The questions to me were from my father. I knew shotguns. I’d been […]
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Huffman Supports Legislation Blocking Federal Paramilitary Occupations in Portland and Other Cities
North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman announced his support for the recently introduced Preventing Authoritarian Policing Tactics on America’s Streets Act, a bill that would block the Trump Administration from deploying federal forces on protestors. The bill is led by Oregon representatives Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici and U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, and […]
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Direct Flights to Denver Coming Next Year
Humboldt County will soon have a new airline route. The Redwood Region Economic Development Commission and the county announced this afternoon that United Airlines will begin nonstop service from Humboldt County to Denver International Airport beginning in June of next year. The nonstop 50-seat flights will depart the airport in McKinleyville daily at 6:30 a.m., […]
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What We Get from Oregon
Central Oregon, my friend and I agree, is a little eerie. It’s not the people; it’s the landscape. The land on either side of Interstate 5 is too flat, too barren, its forests mostly commercial timber operations that have been replanted with conifers all the same age, the same height, the same space apart. The […]
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UPDATE: PenAir Dropping Humboldt Route, Effective Monday
UPDATE: Just a few days after word came that PenAir was pulling out of Humboldt, the airline announced today that the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is looking to end its Crescent City flights. Humboldt County will be back down to one airline option at the end of the day while […]
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PenAir Scales Back But Remains Confident in Portland Route
PenAir recently reduced the number of daily flights from the Arcata-Eureka Airport to Portland from three flights to two, but insists the change isn’t related to passenger interest in the route. Missy Roberts, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing, said the changes will affect everyone looking to fly with PenAir. She said the […]
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Inside the Portland Flights Deal
Humboldt County has a kinship with Portland, what with our shared interests in food, drink, marijuana, arts, neo-lumber fashion and keepin’ it weird. So PenAir’s announcement that it would be offering service from the Redwood Coast Airport (nee the Arcata-Eureka Airport) was met with palpable excitement. Portland is a hip alternative to San Francisco for […]
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Airport Adds Service to Portland
Come April, folks looking to get out of Humboldt County will have a new option: direct air service to Portland. Pen Air, a regional airline based in Alaska, announced via press release that it will soon be adding two daily flights between Portland and Arcata/Eureka, err, the California Redwood Coast – Humboldt County Airport. The […]
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From the Hum: A Good Night for Some Moonshine
Direct from Portland, The Moonshine drops into the Jambalaya for a rootsy evening offering everything from a modernist take on a Carter Family song from the 1920s to an old-timey anti-GMO tune. Think of it as post-Americana. Enjoy a preview of the night to come with this intoxicating video from PDX’s “The Backyard Sessions”: Joyous, […]
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Carless? Portland-bound? Bring a Pillow.
This is amazing/vexing. Journal homie Jonathan Webster put together this graphic (with inspiration from John Chernoff) illustrating the difficulties of traveling north from behind the Redwood Curtain without a car. Unless you’ve got a good amount of cash, you’re looking at 20 hours of travel minimum. You could watch every episode of Portlandia twice in […]