I received this from a reader by email.
hi erik,i sorta mentioned it on kym’s salmon creek slide repair thread, but you may wish to “scoop” the news of the briceland road repair… before the papers. i talked to one of the sign guys (and the money was allotted some time back (pre-$crisis))who confirmed that they will be chipsealing briceland road from ruby valley to briceland this spring. it looks like they are near the end of the mowing, the guy told me that it has to be done by june first…i didnt ask why. so that is the word on the streets. a call somewhere could confirm and get the official story, but it is yours to do or not do with. as a regular driver of that road…well, let’s just say i gonna lay some offerings at the altar of the greek god Miracles.
And now you know. I’ll see if I can get more information.
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April 8, 2009 at 9:56 am
olman speller
what kind of a reader can’t even spell your name right? (sorry!)
oh well, i hope they are right about the road!
April 8, 2009 at 10:25 am
Ernie's Place
We got a pretty good update at the Garberville Rotary Club meeting. Here is a brief, but interesting outline: Bumpy Roads Ahead
April 8, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Eric Kirk
olman – the irony there is that my parents had intended for it to be spelled with a “k.” The doctor misspelled it on my birth certificate and my parents just took it as fate.
April 8, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Sally
Good news about the resurfacing… but I’m more excited about the new speed limits! 25 mph through the grove, and 35 mph past my house, instead of the 70 mph most people seem to drive. Maybe I won’t have to run out my gate as first responder so often now.
April 8, 2009 at 5:19 pm
olmanriver
and with posted speed signs will come the enforcers, presumably a more common prescence of highway patrol cars? is that who has the job on a county road?
i am all for safer driving, fewer teen deaths, and keeping my fillings. the bagmen will just have to drive more at night with their nearly but not quite legal product. add joe klein in time mag this week to the list of editorialists coming out to help shape public opinion on that topic.
April 8, 2009 at 10:13 pm
anonamie
yea really, the cops don’t seem to worry about the teen deaths, they are more interested in pot busts, like when you get on the freeway. Get it? FREEway?
April 8, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Ben
The road needs fog lines and center line reflectors… They say no reflectors on a road that is snowplowed.. but it’s possible to grind depressions in the road that let the plow pass over the reflectors. Right now, that is one dangerous road at night.
April 9, 2009 at 7:38 am
Anonnon
Oh this is bad. Really bad news. If the roads are better new people may move in. New people. New outsiders. They may want new things like decent schools, better stores to shop in, real utilities, licensed electricians. Oh this is bad. Way bad. There goes the community. How fast can we get that legislation passed? Next thing you know they will be letting the IRS agents move in down the street.
Way bad. Maybe we can plastic wrap the entire community and just keep things wonderful forever. I can see a replica of Monticello hoisted and mounted above Redway Drive.
April 9, 2009 at 8:17 am
milt
Well, there are the census workers to think of. We don’t want their reams of sensitive statistical info blowing around loose after a smash- up on the BR now do we?
April 9, 2009 at 8:31 am
Eric Kirk
milt – it’s a subtle jab at me based on this conversation.
I have to admit, the post has panache, even if it distorts my point.
April 9, 2009 at 10:49 am
Mr. Greenjeans
You had to bring up the census. A very informed person, I think it was on Thank Jah last week, made the startling revelation that President Obama is doing the census this time so that the government can count… now wait…… Latinos!!!! Not just any Latinos but undocumented Latinos!!! Guess what those added undocumented illegal Latinos will get with their new found power; they will get their own congressperson!! Yup. This person on Thank Jah figured out that there are X amount of Congresspeople per Y amount of people. With the extra undocumented, illegal aliens that will be counted by President Obama there will have to be more Congresspeople. Yup!! That is why President Obama is counting illegal aliens in the next census and that is why these census takers will be roaming Briceland Road and the hills throwing all their papers all over while they hit the bumps, so that President Obama can count the illegal aliens and get more Democratic Congresspeople. Yup, that’s what this guy said. No word on whether this person on Thank Jah heard this on Fox News or not. I suspect Sean Hannity and Dick Morris let the cat out of the bag.
April 9, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Anonnon
Really I hadn’t read that. But okay. It works.
April 9, 2009 at 2:16 pm
milt
If I’m not mistaken in my past life civics class memory, there is a sizable lag in time between census results and the actual addition of new House of Rep members. Obama’s point may have been that there has been serious undercounting of Latinos, as well as other minorities, in past censuses, which presents a whole nother set of problems both financial and social.
It’s like believing the permitted number of ticket sales at RoR/RR , back in the day, was really the actual number of party goers in attendance.
It’s the elefante in the room.
April 9, 2009 at 5:04 pm
randomfactoid
about those reflectors …
Did you know those are called Botts Dots? invented by a dude named Bott I swear.
Dr. Elbert Dysart Botts, a California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) engineer credited with overseeing the research that led to the development of the markers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botts%27_dots
April 9, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Mr. Greenjeans
Milt I thought that the claim by the guy on Thank Jah and related by me was so far out in space that it would not need to be explained how utterly ridiculous the claim was. Maybe it lost something in my translation. There is no way that illigal aliens will make any difference in how many representitive there will be in congress. Illigal aliens cannot vote. It is understandable why the government would want to know how many illegal aliens there are but not for the reasons that Fox News or Hannity may try to give to their paranoid audience.
April 9, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Eric Kirk
Are congressional districts based upon people qualified to vote or just bodies? Do children count?
April 9, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Jim
just bodies, children count
April 10, 2009 at 6:12 am
Anonnon
Well YH the end you describe may be but do not think that illegal aliens do not have a ‘vote’. The commercial interests that need these aliens to take the minimum wage jobs that no grower in Humboldt county would even think of taking on do vote. And they contribute to campaigns and they wage political battles behind the scenes. Illegal aliens also have children who attend public school often or are citizens of the United States. These kids grow up and vote their family interests (just like you and me). Think deeper.
April 10, 2009 at 6:41 am
milt
Mr. GJ, I understand your point. Upon looking it up, the House of Reps hasn’t had an increase in numbers since 1911, when it was 433. They added two more with the addition of Arizona and New Mexico in 1912. So, even though the population has increased from 94m to over 300m in that time span, no HoRs have been added. Instead there is some formula used to maintain the status quo of 435. Maybe because there’s no room for extra seats in the House?
According to Constitutional provisions, the census is supposed to count just those who have a residence. Now given the present state of the economy with tent cities popping up everywhere, this really will tax census takers efforts. We could actually see a decline in the US population from that technical point of view. That should make Republican claims of “voter fraud” even more shrill in the future.
April 10, 2009 at 6:48 am
milt
I should add that they did add two more Reps when Alaska and Hawaii became states, but that was only temporary and they backed it down to 435 using that ‘formula’.
April 10, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Mr. Greenjeans
That is something I did not know Milt. Thank you!
April 11, 2009 at 3:30 pm
olmanriver
Having heard a rumor of “speed sign wars” I noticed a sign with a new post on the ground in Ruby Valley, and one ’45 mph, radar enforced’ sign on the west end of the Redwood Creek bridge, just past Ruby Valley.
That history on the House numbers was interesting, thanks fellas.