GPU Update, How NOT to Present before the Board of Supes, and More on Megabus.
By now you know that the 13-year saga of the General Plan Update is mired in a review of basic principles which were agreed upon ears ago and now- what a surprise!- seem to need amending. This is not...
View ArticleStanding Up While You Work Is Good, Facebook Is Depressing, Jerry Brown and...
In the first few hours of our Federal government shutdown, it would be nice if I could come up with some POSITIVE things to say about Our Current Situation but I really can’t think of any. The impact...
View ArticleGPU Becoming GP Dismemberment; Federal Workers in Humboldt
GPU-I was only able to stay for half the Monday meeting of the Board of Supervisors to continue the review of the General Plan Update so my impressions may be faulty. Ryan Burns of the NCJ was also...
View ArticleBig Box, uh Bottle Store Hits Eureka
This post would have been published Tuesday but technical problems intervened, so you’ve probably heard most of this already. As everyone not living in a cave knows, BevMo, the behemoth liquor...
View ArticleGO-Biz Forum Packs Wharfinger
A crowd of 70 entrepreneurs, hopefuls and civic officials gathered yesterday at the ungodly hour of 8:30am to hear about Governor Jerry Brown’s GO-Biz program which was initiated in 2011 as ”a...
View Article3-D Printing Comes to Eureka
3-D at Times Printing Just a few weeks ago, I would have thought that 3-D printing was just a crazy idea with no relevance to the Redwood Coast. I was wrong. Right here, right now, right down on...
View ArticleWhat Eureka Needs- an Early Christmas List for Entrepreneurs
Since it seems that every day I go past another shuttered business, we obviously have retail and office space to spare. Why not seize the situation as an opportunity to fill those spaces with...
View ArticleBroadway gains a bistro; more busses
A new bistro: There’s another empty storefront in Henderson Center now that the Stuft Potato has moved to the old Babetta’s site on Broadway. The old venue, in the Steve’s Coney Island next to Norman’s...
View Article“Catfish” Lessons for Redwood Coast Business, Port of Oakland big plans and...
CATFISH-If any of you have not seen “Catfish”, either the movie or the TV series which just finished its second season on MTV, you’re missing out on a phenomenon. I waste more time than I care to...
View ArticleWhat We Have to Be Grateful For on the Redwood Coast- a sampler
Counting your blessings on Thanksgiving Day, on the Redwood Coast, is an overwhelming job, which is why I am not trying to be inclusive. Here are just a few items which have come to my attention...
View ArticleProposed Sequoia Conference Facility, How They Used to Travel to SF and...
Yes, I’m one of those nuts who read the legal notices and once in awhile I actually learn something. Today I learned that the HCOE has filed for a negative declaration for their proposed new 9200 sq ft...
View ArticleThe Weather Outside is Delightful (but the temperatures are frightful)
…And I don’t know about you but wearing four layers of clothing and STILL having my muscles clenched against the cold is getting old, real old. Here are some of the highlights of the week in business....
View Article“Season of Wonder and Light”- Bah, Humbug!
I have my curmudgeon hat on today, an effect of reading this morning’s papers and blogs. Any of you wanting sugarplum fairies should be reading elsewhere. To begin- Eureka City Schools, Loleta Union...
View ArticleHappy Holidays 2013
We’re taking a short break to enjoy the peace of the season. May you and yours have a safe and warm holiday and we’ll see you in 2014.
View ArticleMurder in the Cathedral- the Unthinkable, the Unacceptable
Back in the 1930′s when T S Eliot was writing his Nobel prize-winning play about the conflict between Henry II and his Archbishop, Thomas a Becket, a conflict that resulted in Becket’s death at the...
View ArticleRedding Trying for More Flights, Storage Wars Humboldt Style, and “The...
REDDING WANTS FLIGHTS- Redding airport officials and civic leaders, including representatives of the mega- Bethel Church, have met or are scheduled to meet with representatives of United Airlines,...
View ArticleThe Week in North Coast Business- A Golden Opportunity on the Waterfront;...
FISHERMAN’S TERMINAL RESTAURANT/MARKET Ever wanted to run a restaurant? Check this out: “The City of Eureka is soliciting proposals from qualified restaurant/cafe’ operator(s) to establish a...
View ArticleThe Winter of Our Discontent-Trains to Vancouver, NVB is Sold and the Chinese...
Well, here we are in late January, freezing to death, looking at a drought and coming off a lousy crab season. There IS good news- getting to someplace even colder is now easier. TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN...
View ArticleHousing Prices, Location Filming , Homelessness, Rain and the Harbor
HOUSING PRICES: The December Humboldt Economic Index published a couple of weeks ago showed a dip in County housing prices that would be pretty scary if it continues, but it probably won’t. Median...
View ArticleA February Potpourri- No, Not That Kind of Pot
I thought that flu shot was supposed to save me from the shivers, shakes and runny nose that has kept me inside all week, but I guess that was a different strain. This week you’re getting some stories...
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