What would Kaitlin do?

Kevin Hoover’s Arcata Eye usually boasts an eclectic array of letters to the editor, and the current issue is no exception. The collection starts off with letters from someone who doesn’t like full page ads, someone else who doesn’t like capitalism, several someones who will lose their will to live if an elderberry tree is [...]

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 [...]

Who says government isn’t efficient?

Within 24 hours of the filing of the last of three appeals challenging the city of Eureka’s approval of the Balloon Track interim cleanup plan, the California Coastal Commission published a surprisingly thorough 82-page legal and environmental analysis of the plan, along with the expected recommendation that the appeals be heard. Weird, huh? You don’t [...]

Pete Nichol$: The quicker cash picker-upper

Ahh, the beauty of a warm fall rain. There’s nothing quite like it to send all those toxic soil contaminants flowing straight into the bay. It’s like one of those nature films they used to show in grade school, only way stupider. Thanks to Pete Nichols and his money-maker, the Humboldt Paykeeper organization, this is [...]

Gans throws down on Nichols in today’s Times-Standard

Humboldt Baykeeper should come clean about the Marina Center by Randy Gans For many years, Humboldt Baykeeper has been saying that the Balloon Track should be cleaned up. But now that the cleanup is about to happen, Baykeeper is demanding that the Balloon Track should not be cleaned up until more unspecified work is done [...]

Four years already?? And us without a cake.

Is the Faustian reference a Freudian slip? Regardless, get your prog on and spend an evening with Pete Nichols and his two great loves: asking for money and talking about himself. The cost is only $45 and your last shred of self-respect. Enjoy!!

Pete Nichols fights cleanup of contaminated site

Sometimes we wonder just how far over the falls Pete Nichols needs to go before the far left decides to cut him loose. Even they must have limits, right? Maybe not. Here again we find Nichols and his Humboldt Paykeeper organization arguing against the repair of environmental damage–in this case, the removal of contaminated soil [...]