We heart prog logic

EPIC’s Scott Greacen loves salmon soooo much, he opposes removing dams on the Klamath to save them. Brilliant!! Reminds us of all the ”environmentalists” who care soooo much about the bay and its surrounding wetlands that they spent years working to prevent cleanup of the Balloon Track. Let’s see now. How did that turn out for [...]

Were Larry Glass heading toward his own political Alamo, would anyone explain to him what that meant?

As support for Eureka Ward 1 challenger Marian Brady continues to grow, some are wondering whether the political aspirations of the great Larry Glass may have hit the skids. How could that be? It seems like only yesterday he was voted the county’s most popular public official. Although by stupid people. Who never met him. But after his [...]

Baykeeper acts quickly to remove potentially contaminated piles of cash from Balloon Track

Evidently Paykeeper’s definition of “cleaning up” has more to do with money than dioxin, given that Sneaky Pete Nichols is now singing the praises of the same cleanup plan he sued CUE VI to stop. “We think the plan they put forward is a plan that has been shown to work in the past.” Nichols now tells the [...]

Campaign ad outtakes we were never meant to see

 

Judge deflates Baykeeper Balloon Track lawsuit

With nary a peep from any of the normally vocal environmental groups since his ruling last week, U.S. District Court Judge Jeff White dismissed the Humboldt Baykeeper’s major claim in its lawsuit against Eureka’s Balloon Track owners. Baykeeper and its parent organization, the equally litigiously crazed Ecological Rights Foundation, filed the suit in 2006 claiming, [...]

New name–same great smell

In honor of all the hard work our Fourth District Supervisor has put into blocking the environmental cleanup of the Balloon Track and preventing its subsequent use for jobs and industry, the contaminated 40-acre site has been renamed The Bonnie Neely Memorial Toxic Waste Dump and Homeless Poopatorium. At a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday, Neely fake-cried [...]

Neely finally infiltrates T-S staff

Bonnie Neely, the Fourth District Supervisor and California Coastal Commission chair, writing “for the Times-Standard” reminded voters today that during her quarter century in office she’s done virtually nothing as the representative of the relevant jurisdiction with respect to the Balloon Track property, it’s cleanup and any hopes of generating jobs through its conversion to [...]

Balloon Track: The Prequel

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…. One District Four supervisorial candidate, who shall remain nameless, voted to build a jail on what she now insists is the crown fucking jewel of Humboldt County real estate. Say what?? A jail on the beautiful Balloon Track? So obviously, turmoil ensued. Right? There were [...]

Four days is too long to wait for us to cut and paste an effing My Word

But what the hell, you know? It was a Super Bowl weekend–one of the few times each year we’re allowed to drank early, often and with impunity. So get over it. Oh and while you’re at it, enjoy this My Word from the Saturday Times-Standard. 20 years is too long to wait for action on [...]

Meanwhile, back at the North Coast Journal…

Informed readers are pointing out some logic gaps in Hanky-Panky Sims’ latest prog reach-around. His basic premise: A few senselessly oppositional folk on the left may have fought to block any development project Rob Arkley put forward, but this whole Marina Center shitstorm is still Arkley’s fault because he didn’t consult with them first. Brilliant!! [...]

George Clark: Still kind of a dumbfuck

In yesterday’s Times-Standard, failed city council candidate George Clark articulates some of the genius that sent his campaign straight down the ol’ crapper last fall. A few highlights: If 75 percent of residents cannot afford home ownership, give them no jobs. That will help. If the Balloon Track is “essential for growth that actually begins [...]

Friday night lights out

Anyone who thinks there’s a snowy plover’s chance in hell that the California Coastal Commission will support the cleanup of the Balloon Track property and ultimately allow a 313,500 square foot mixed-use development across the street from Humboldt Bay–we do love an optimist. Really. Dream big. But before you go out and start spending all [...]

Prog groups claim ‘irreparable harm’ if Balloon Track cleanup goes forward

The Times-Standard reports today that papers filed in court seeking to force the city of Eureka to withdraw its Environmental Impact Report allege “irreparable harm” will come to residents, fish and wildlife if the Marina Center property is cleaned up. The petition was filed by the Northcoast Environmental Center, Humboldt Paykeeper, the Environmental Protection Information [...]

Wait. Who’s on first?

A Marina Center story in Saturday’s Times-Standard elicited this response regarding another local item on the California Coastal Commission’s December agenda. The agenda itself is here and the staff report on the item in question is here. Enjoy! Notwithstanding the controversy regarding the Balloon Track, you may not be aware of a more egregious abuse [...]

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