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Descrambling Today’s Kinetics Brouhaha
– Justin Brown, son of the late Kinetic Sculpture Race founder Hobart Brown, threatened to wrest control of the current incarnation of the race from the nonprofit organization that has been putting it…
Parliament of Apes
Last week county government offered us an unusual little window into the practice of local democracy and government in the 21st century. In partial response to a Public Records Act request filed…
You Ain't Nothin' But A Hounds-tongue
Sadly, just as Spring reaches its richest green, the signs of its demise creep slowly over the landscape. Hounds-tongue has mostly quit blooming leaving its gorgeous seedpods behind swelling in the…
Kinetic Universe Responds to Brown’s Legal Threat
…Topping interview The Kinetic Grand Championship will go on this year! No one owns the race. In 2007, while trademarked elements such as the name "Kinetic Sculpture Race," the slogan "For the…
Brand New Drama for Kinetic Sculpture Race
Justin Brown, son of the late Hobart Brown, just issued a press release announcing that this year's Kinetic Sculpture Race — scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend, week after next — "may be cancelled…
The (Imaginary) Assassination of Doc Day by Cowards Unknown
– A doctor who formerly practiced in Eureka is afraid to return to town to face charges because she fears being assassinated, the T-S Thadeus Greenson reports. If her attorney's statements…
Spirit of the North Coast
— The moronic and the evil dominate T-S coverage today. In addition to the racist scuzzballs who attacked a Eureka gas station attendant we talked about yesterday, you've got a drunken…
Racist Thugs Attack Eureka Gas Station Attendant
I'm not quite sure why a Redding television station has this before anyone else, but apparently the Sheriff's Office is looking for a couple of boneheads who attacked a Myrtle…
"Compassion from Suffering" Tomas Gouverneur's Obituary
For those following the Kettenpom Murder stories, here is Tomas Gouverneur's obituary thanks to a reader who sent the link. It ends with a lovely sentence, “Beauty from ashes and compassion…
When Mother's Day Goes Horribly Wrong
…Where is the ambulance? After the blood, Matt and Kevin call the helicopter. And then we drive to a place not far but where the medivac can land. Somehow the ambulance finds…
From My Hillside to You—Happy Mother's Day
…The trilliums are opening on the hillsides and life feels good.
Choo-Choo Politics: The Poll!
– Yesterday the Federal Railroad Administration gave the beleaguered North Coast Railroad Authority the OK to start running freight trains between Sonoma and Marin counties, a 62-mile stretch of track. Service to…
The Lovelace-Speaker Papers
Yesterday, we mentioned that there was probably only one last tranche of documents from the county's big PRA dump worth posting. Here it is – a long e-mail exchange between Supervisor…
Phillipsville Heroin Bust Results in Conviction Yesterday
…After the K-9 alerted on the center console, the agents searched the vehicle and found a hidden compartment in the console containing 1.5 pounds of black tar heroin. Lopez admitted…
Arise, Water Bag!
– With the official release of Wicked Bugs , who is our Amy Stewart destroying this week? Well, just take a gander at this list from the American Booksellers Association. In an act of…
I'm Trying To Picture This….
Nearly 10,000 one inch plants were found today around noon by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. 9,900. One. Inch. Plants. Now I could be wrong but I'm guessing…
How Does Lovelace Talk to Other GPU Opponents?
Yes, the conversation with Rob Arkley got a little testy. But is Supervisor Mark Lovelace always so confrontational with those who disagree with his point of view? Not really. During the four…
Ten Thousand Plants Found Today
From the Sheriff's Office: On 05-04-2011 at about 1200 hours, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were investigating a report of trespassers on private timber company property, located in…
Did the Document Dump Out the Humboldt Herald or its Source?
So it was widely supposed that one of the purposes of Shirley Fuller's big Public Records Act request was to determine who in the county “leaked” Kay Backer's March 31…
Cop Outs. Plus: More of Lovelace’s Inbox!
– The Board of Supervisors yesterday braced for huge upcoming cuts to the Sheriff's Office, the T-S reports. As first reported here on the LoCO, Sheriff Mike Downey is saying that…
Humboldt County IT: You So Crazy
…The LoCO and other news organizations would be perfectly within their legal rights to post these documents as-is, but since some of the redactions pertain to the street address and cell…
Wild Statements Recirculated: County Responds to Arkley Public Records Act Request
The County of Humboldt has just released its response to the Public Records Act request filed last month by Shirley Fuller, assistant to Eureka kazillionaire Rob Arkley. The response is incomplete, and…
Only at Humboldt Potlucks…
….could the brownies really contain pot. Even at large public functions, the baker often feels it necessary to include a little helpful information.
A Tip of the Recap
– Tell you the truth, every goddamn bit of news worth mentioning happened right here on the LoCO. You got your Ingomar Club update , your traffic madness and Sheriff Downey's budgetary shot…
That Ingomar Club Lawsuit Just Got Nastier
Everyone's been pretty much riveted to the story of the long-term Ingomar Club employee who is suing the county's chi-chi private club for sexual harassment. As Matt Drange…
Highway 101 is Having Issues
First, earlier today, a big rig dumped a tractor onto the road near Arcata: #embedly_twitter_47421928{background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.png) #C0DEED; padding:20px;} #embedly…
Downey: Budget Cuts Spell Closure of McKinleyville, Garberville Substations
Sheriff Mike Downey's office is heavily targeted for budget reductions in the upcoming fiscal year. How heavily? In a letter sent to Supervisor Ryan Sundberg last Friday (and obtained by the…
Blocksburg Man Missing—Edward Jensen
…The Sheriff’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance with any information on Mr. Jensen possible location. Mr. Jensen may heading to the Corning area of California. The public is requested…
An Appointment with Destiny, and Others to Various Political Commissions
…The dedicated push – which kicks off with a press conference at the Red Lion Inn this morning at 11 a.m. – comes after the county has lost its routes to Los Angeles…
The Passing of a Pirate—Joseph Eddy
…Folk who come here because the rest of the world won't leave them be. Elsewhere folk need the movies to find men like him—colorful and crazy with life. But they…