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New Year’s Wishes for Redwood Coast Business
While clearing away the Christmas clutter, let’s hope for better days to come. Here are my three wishes for the local business community. 1. No more empty storefronts! Even a year ago I could...
View ArticleThe Week in Redwood Coast Business- renaming the airport, charging for the...
Renaming the Airport- The sorry spectacle of a town renaming its airport to attract visitors is a plot worthy of a comedy, one of those good British comedies with Peter Sellers . The good news is that...
View ArticleThe Power of Showing Up, Lost Credibility and Railroad News
The Power of Showing Up-Have you ever been to a school board meeting? I hadn’t until the special meeting on July 11, ostensibly to discuss the “Future of the Eureka High School Automotive Program.” I...
View ArticleShort Sea Shipping, Locomotives in Sac and Crowdfunding Goes Mainstream
“Short Sea Shipping”. Now try saying THAT three times in quick succession. However it comes out, short sea shipping has been talked about as a potential use for Humboldt Bay Harbor for at least the...
View ArticleTrains, Planes and Buses??!!?
Last week, a friend who needed to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco decided to try the Megabus. His verdict? Unequivocal approval. He took the overnighter which leaves LA’s Union Station at...
View ArticleStupid Employer Tricks and Golfing in Cuba
Was it the Letterman Show that used to feature “Stupid Pet Tricks’? The tricks were invariably dumb but the animals were invariably cute. Employers who cheat their workers and somehow think they’re...
View ArticleWelcome to Our City, Chief Mills
Sometimes the consultants get it right. The headhunters charged with finding us a new police chief- excuse me, I meant another new police chief- stated it correctly: “Eureka is unique, a...
View ArticleGPU 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 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 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 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 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...
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The Timber Heritage Association-Sleeping Giant in Samoa
Speeder train at at Samoa The last time I went to one of the Humboldt Bay Harbor Working Group’s monthly community forums I noted how downspirited everyone was after listening to an hour of “no”....
View ArticleNewest Economic Index Shows Leap in Manufacturing
Dr. Eschker and his hardworking crew at HSU have added another dimension to their Humboldt Economic Index; a specific tracking of the manufacturing sector. That sector, which will likely generate the...
View ArticleGet Ready: Eclipse Late Monday Night
Stay up till midnight tonight to see the first of two eclipses visible to us this year. Details here on the Oregon Public Broadcasting site.
View ArticleThe Consumers’ Guide to Summer 2014- Bring Money
-To no one’s surprise, the courts have approved the merger of American and USAir, which creates the world’s largest airline. Meanwhile, United, our sole air carrier thru their sub, United Express, was...
View Article“Fighting Intensifies Following Election”
My heart sank when I read this. It CAN’T get any worse, can it? Then I realized I was reading about Ukraine. Here, to give you something to think about besides the elections are accounts of two...
View ArticleIT COULD HAPPEN HERE! Modesto loses passenger air service.
Today is the last day SkyWest Air will serve Modesto City-County Airport, leaving Modesto without regular air service for the first time in at least 20 years. Modesto, with a population of 203,000, has...
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