How railroad proponents can woo cyclists…

 
Part I

 
Part II

 
 

Open Door will be less so after cuts

From the April 22, 008 issue
By Daniel Mintz
Press Staff Writer
 
State budget cuts will fall hard on health care, and community clinics are bracing for Medi-Cal losses that will force them to reduce services –
a turnabout that could affect residents of all income levels.
The potentially drastic effects of Medi-Cal cuts and payment delays were [...]

Last-minute airport meeting notice

The unedited press release below arrived via e-mail shortly after 5 p.m. today. I wonder why a meeting about such an important topic can’t be announced sooner? Go figure.
 
By the way, I would recommend that you show up at 4 p.m. rather than the 4 a.m. start time listed in the notice. Then again, maybe [...]

Board clears manager in embezzlement, rescinds previous charges of belligerence

By Jack Durham
Press Editor
The McKinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors announced last week that its manager has been cleared of two allegations made against him that were never previously made public – that he was personally involved in embezzling district funds and involved in a collusion in connection with the alleged embezzlement.
The board also voted to drop the discipline/dismissal/release [...]

McKinleyville Art Night.4.18.08

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$4 a gallon

We reached a milestone this week.

BREAKING NEWS: Seniors giving out free home-baked cookies at recycling center

Stop by Humboldt Sanitation and Recycling before 2 p.m. today and get a home-baked chocolate chip cookie, or two, from the ladies of the McKinleyville Senior Center. It’s their way of saying thank you for donating bottles and cans in the bins in front of the recycling center. Proceeds from those donations go to the [...]

Despite what was reported, it didn’t happen, even though it probably will

You may have heard on the local television news that the MCSD board approved a new contract for Manager Tom Marking at Wednesday’s meeting. And you probably read the same news in one of the local dailies.
I don’t want to be a nitpicky jerk about those news reports, but they’re both incorrect.
Despite what you heard [...]

More video coming, but not of Wednesday’s MCSD meeting

I had planned on posting a short video report about Wednesday’s MCSD meeting. The idea was to do an extremely abbreviated version of what happened.
Unfortunately, this plan coincided with a computer upgrade. Turns out the new software has changed just enough that I’m facing a small learning curve. (I also spent about five hours this [...]

My caviar and diamond budget takes a hit

In a column last October I wrote that “It’s often repeated like a mantra that ‘(Tom) Marking saves the district money.’” I was referring to some of the work he has done in-house rather than hiring consultants and contractors. 
This week Marking apparently found another way to save the district money – $25 to be exact. [...]