– A two-and-a-half-year-old McKinleyville child is missing after her mother was found naked and dazed, walking down the road in Trinity County this morning. A couple of hours ago, KHUM caller reported that a search and rescue team was sweeping Highway 299.
According to the Times-Standard‘s report, Claudia Pedredos is not sure how she ended up on a remote stretch of Highway 3 near Trinity Lake. But it is known that she left her McKinleyville home with her daughter in the middle of the night last night. More: McKinleyville Press, Redding Record-Searchlight.
– Activist Richard Salzman filed a lawsuit against the City of Arcata yesterday; he’s seeking to get last year’s panhandling ordinance overturned. Never a one for understatement, Salzman went for epic historical sweep in a press release today: “If first they silence the poor and the homeless, and I say nothing, who will speak up when they try to silence me?” he wrote.
Read the lawsuit here.
– Your Lost Coast Outpost had a great time talking with Eric Kirk about our PRA request and the fallout last night on Kirk’s monthly radio program, “All Things Reconsidered.” Missed it? Well, catch it below right now:
– Meanwhile, you can find a new and slightly improved interface to search our PRA documents yourself at the pink link that’ll hang out for a while at the top of each page. Keep commenting on those things: A comment from LoCO reader “shocked” led to a pretty interesting report this morning.
Elsewhere in the comments, JoAnn Schuch tells us what that high-powered book club we noticed yesterday is all about, and Themisadventures Ofbunjee wonders why Rob Arkley doesn’t just run for office himself.
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