Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – The Arcata City Council last week paused mobile home park closures, moved forward with a waste-reduction measure, recommended mediation on partial Plaza street closure during the Farmers Market and expressed support for radio station KHSU’s restoration. Mobile home moratorium The council passed an urgency ordinance suspending closure…
Council taking up Plaza street closure, considering resolution in support of KHSU
Mad River Union ARCATA – The City Council will visit its wisdom on two controversies this week – proposed partial street closures on the Plaza and the situation at radio station KHSU. The council will also consider restrictions on single-use containers such as food take-out boxes and water bottles, and it will likely adopt a…
Another Village housing project revision before the City Council
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – In what has become a recurring event, still another revised version of The Village housing project is being submitted to the Arcata City Council for consideration. The newest iteration, incorporating alterations recommended by the council during recent meetings, is to be considered during the Wednesday, April 17…
The Butthurt Files: Desperate times, desperate measures
Zoltar Hadron Mad River Union AF ARCATA, April 1 – Fed up with the intensifying trend toward whining for commenters at City Council meetings, the city has posted signs cautioning speakers to put a cork in their butthurt for once why don’tcha? In what has become an unwritten rule for oratory at the council’s meeting,…
Calls for DOJ to take over Lawson case
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA CITY HALL – Citizens took to the mic at the public lectern during last week’s City Council meeting to decry a decision by a Humboldt County Grand Jury not to press charges in the April 15, 2017 killing of Humboldt State student David Josiah Lawson. After reviewing evidence…
McKinley statue pulled from Plaza in early morning operation
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – The statue of William McKinley, a gift to the citizens of Arcata from George Zehndner, is gone from the Arcata Plaza. Where America’s 25th president once towered over the town, a circular planter – also soon to go – encloses foliage and a barren patch of concrete…
Mixed, fixed or nixed? City Council to consider two different ‘Village’ housing plans
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – Having redesigned The Village housing two times in response to City Council advice, it appears that The Village’s proponents are passing on the opportunity to do so a third time. The City Council is to decide Wednesday, March 6 between two plans for The Village housing project,…
McKinley statue removal video: Liftoff
Mad River Union ARCATA, Calif., Feb. 28, 2019 – In this video, Arcata’s statue of William McKinley is lifted from its base and placed on the ground for removal of a piece of its pedestal and transport to storage. More information here. Subscribe to the Mad River Union here.
McKinley statue removed from Plaza, soon headed for Canton
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – The statue of William McKinley, a gift to the citizens of Arcata from George Zehnder, is gone from the Arcata Plaza. By action of the City Council, later resoundingly affirmed on Election Day by Arcata voters, the statue was deemed inconsistent with Arcata’s current values due to…
Rare consensus on sending McKinley to Canton, Ohio
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – The initial Arcata City Council vote to remove Arcata’s statue of William McKinley from the Plaza took place one year ago today. But that decision only ratcheted up the heat surrounding the controversial statue. A subsequent petition drive qualified Measure M for the ballot, giving Arcata voters…