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All last Wednesday, on a bright green field behind Pacific Union School, bunches of kids — mostly girls — between the ages of 11 and 14 manipulated soccer balls with a French accent. "We must jungle," they joked, mimicking their French coaches affectionately, when it was time to practice juggling the ball — keeping it […]

College of the Redwoods’ main campus — a herd of squat wooden buildings overlooking green pastureland and Humboldt Bay from a wide shelf at the base of a redwood-draped hillside, seven miles south of Eureka — sits on a network of active fault lines. Not by design, mind you. The campus was constructed in the […]

The California Constitution is no work of art. It’s more like the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose. Lots of little rooms, stairs that lead nowhere, doors that open onto blank walls and windows set into the floorboards. “We keep adding rooms, but the hallways don’t connect together,” says state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, of our […]

A couple of hours past noon the turkey vulture rode a current from the northwest into the blue space above the Bald Hills, east of Orick. It soared, black-and-gray wings fixed in a teetery V, up over a grass-yellow pointy hill topped with trees and out over a broad ridgetop prairie dense with tall grass, […]

HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself "the world’s local bank." Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, "Local flavor since 1956." The International Council of Shopping Centers, a global consortium of mall owners and developers, is pouring millions of dollars […]

At an April 2008 special meeting of the Eureka City Council, which was called to review Police Chief Garr Nielsen’s year-old contract, two vastly different depictions of the new chief emerged. Community members voiced support, characterizing him as a forthright and tough-minded reformer who was bringing needed change to the recalcitrant old guard. About a […]