Fear the Beard(s)

The outcomes of several races are still up in the air, but there are a few we know for sure and a couple others we’re reasonably sure of. We were totally planning to wait until the final results were announced, but we’re impulsive and undisciplined, so behold the first Beards of Victory. Hugs, winner-friends!!

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 [...]

Democracy cockblocked?

After months of telling us a Marina Center ballot measure would be meaningless, local progs have shifted course and decided instead that Measure N is so important they must sue to prevent voters from considering it. Their logic? What else? That the electorate is too stupid to understand what the measure is all about. Quoth Humboldt Paykeeper [...]

In a word: Douchepickle

That is a word, isn’t it? No matter!  Here’s another classic from our good friend the six-term pachyderm courtesy of www.twitter.com/BonBonForever: Now the Marina Center’s gonna be on the Nov. ballot? Resorting to democracy was kind of a bitch move. Oh well. She’s been in office for 24 effing years. You can’t expect her to [...]

Quote of the day

Quoth Bonnie Neely in today’s Times-Standard: “The Pacific Legal Foundation is a Sacramento special interest group funded by big oil and tobacco companies, and I don’t think anybody in Humboldt County trusts them to clean up a toxic site.” Uh, yeah. And Bonnie Neely is a washed-up Eureka politician funded by gambling and development interests, [...]

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!! [...]

Substantial B.S.

So, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that all of the power drunk California Coastal commissioners agreed during their meeting today that there were “substantial issues” raised in the EPIC, Paykeeper, NEC and Ralph Faust appeal of the phase one of the Marina Center project’s local coastal plan amendment approved recently by the [...]

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 [...]

Still no conflict?

So if it’s not a conflict if Eureka City Councilman Larry Glass has a years-long personal vendetta against a developer whose project he’s reviewing, and not a conflict if Larry founded and fronted a group that exists solely to oppose the project, and not a conflict if Larry distributed T-shirts and bumper stickers ridiculing the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]