1986: Kind of a crap year

The space shuttle Discovery blew up. Chernobyl melted down. Halley’s Comet was a major bust, and the Bears beat the living crap out of our Patriots in Super Bowl XX. Closer to home, something called MAXXAM purchased the Pacific Lumber Company, and Bonnie Neely was elected Fourth District Supervisor. Now PALCO is gone, of course, [...]

Where would Jesus shop?

“You tend to feed the one that pays you.”

File that one under quote of the day. This refreshingly candid remark was made by a spokesman for the anti-development Citizens for Real Economic Growth, which paid a San Francisco college professor $2,500 to feed Eureka residents pages of apocalyptic misrepresentations about the Marina Center proposal. Turns out the prof has a history of opposing [...]

Updated: What’s wrong with this picture?

In the event that purchasing candidates and apocryphal environmental reports isn’t enough to tank a potential competitor’s development proposal–fret not, prog friends! Bill Pierson has a few more tricks up his oversized Hawaiian-shirt sleeves. Consider, for example, his relationship with Peter Douglas, pictured below left with Pierson on Thursday at Hurricane Kate’s in Old Town. [...]

Local man wins much-needed home makeover

Local blogger-turned-newscaster Ryan Hurley is making headlines again–this time for submitting the winning video entry in a nationwide search for the ugliest home decor. His prize? A complete home makeover, courtesy of Home Depot. Designer and contest judge Ernesto Fabri said Hurley’s submission was in a class all its own. “Rarely does one see a [...]

Lowe’s and Santa Rosa: Evidently not building something together

Humboldt County’s chances of becoming the next Santa Rosa got a little better yesterday when the city council there voted to block the construction of a national hardware store on an abandoned piece of property not far from a Costco. Among local business leaders arguing that the new store would “harm the community” was a [...]