I’m getting slivers of information from Facebook, but I’m told that the bus drivers were given 45 day notice with the hope that some funding will come from somewhere. I’m told there was a pretty good turnout and discussion, with some hope that this very creative community will figure something out.
Rural areas have suffered under term limits. In the old days, rural reps had time to build clout, but now with everyone having to rush for higher office, the population concentrations get even more priority than before.
Please post any news you have.
Oh, and Rick Santorum won the caucuses in Iowa, just barely over Romney. If you don’t know who Santorum is, Google him.
My predictions? Bachman, Perry, and Huntsman drop out before New Hampshire as the Republican leadership tries to push Romney as the nominee of inevitability. Newt hangs on for awhile. Santorum becomes the Tea Party choice. Paul’s 15 minutes are over.
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January 4, 2012 at 8:02 am
Fred Mangels
Word is now that Romney won by 8 votes.
January 4, 2012 at 8:42 am
Samoasoftball
Any state legislator who is for cutting transportation to schools should be called to the carpet. Never are though.
January 4, 2012 at 9:32 am
Anonymous
why are there letters in the paper that are trying to blame Cliff for this? he has nothing to do with trigger cuts from sac. and estelles letter is just BS. did she really send it to gov. brown.? or is this just more the same of her liking the sound of her own voice?
January 4, 2012 at 9:47 am
tra
Sounds like Bachmann is dropping out. Perry…considering.
But I would be very, very surprised if Huntsman dropped out before New Hampshire. If he has a poor showing in New Hampshire, then yeah, he might drop out at that point.
January 4, 2012 at 11:52 am
anonymous
estelles letter is just BS……..
there is something wrong with someone who thinks that the letter Estelle wrote regarding our kids bus service being cut is bs. I for one and my kids appreciate that Estelle (and many others) stood up for us and wrote a letter and also spoke out at last nights meeting. I know that I can probably get my kids to school my self but I rely on the school bus at the end of the day to get them back home because I am still at work.
January 4, 2012 at 3:53 pm
Not A Native
Another example of how ‘rural living’ as practiced hereabouts is founded on cheap energy, subsidized transportation infrastructure, and subsidized operational funds. If you want to live sustainably in the sticks you should homeschool your children rather than expecting to get free school and transportation services equal to less energy intensive city services.
And if you don’t have the knowledge, skills, and ability to educate your children to where they can credibly compete with their global peers, you will ensure they won’t.
January 4, 2012 at 4:06 pm
edsvoice
Eric,
Any reason you have mixed in two completely different topics in one thread?
January 4, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Anonymous
I hope 11:52 pays attention to what NAN says. estelle writing a letter, if she in fact did write to the gov., doesn’t mean shit. Now if she offered to be the car pool person, and drive the kids in the area to school, that would mean something. Talk is easy, standing up in front of your peers, preaching to the choir is easy. Action, actually doing something, is much harder.
January 4, 2012 at 5:09 pm
anonymous
“Now if she offered to be the car pool person, and drive the kids ”
wow,whoever wrote this is a real simpleton…….made me laugh really hard.
January 4, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Eric Kirk
Any reason you have mixed in two completely different topics in one thread?
Not really. It was pretty much a free-form late night post I made. Just happened to be the topics on my mind before I headed to bed, and maybe I was too lazy to start a second post.
It does affect the continuity of the discussions however. Implied criticism accepted.
January 4, 2012 at 7:25 pm
edsvoice
Does anyone know if any amount of the SHUSD property assesment funds school transportation?
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Did SHUSD ever get paid in full from Dimmick for Reggae Rising?
January 4, 2012 at 8:20 pm
ED Denson
Ron Paul came in a strong third. He’s got the weirdest press I’ve ever seen. Only Jon Stewart pays any attention to him despite the fact that 1) he’s the only Republcan with any ideas, and 2) he clearly has some strong appeal to college students, and 3) there is enough support for him to come in 3rd in Iowa with more than double the votes of Perry. Yet the coverage is of Perry and Bachman, neither of whom has nearly Paul’s base or significance in the race. I disagree about his 15 minutes – he never got his 15 minutes. I would not like to see him elected, because he really wants to take the country in such a radically new direction that the disruption would be severe, but its hard not to have some attraction to a man who wants to legalize marijuana and stop the wars.
PS Romney seems to have “won” by 8 votes. But one article I read claims that Paul is the real winner because he asked his supporters to stay at the caucuses after the vote, and get elected to the county conventions. It is those conventions which elect the members of the state convention, which actually picks the delegates from Iowa. The caucus vote is not binding, and not indicativate of whom the delegates from Iowa will actually support.
Just my libertarian streak coming out I guess. I’m nostalgic for the old days.
January 4, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Sally
“If you don’t know who Santorum is, Google him.”
I don’t really have a comment, but Eric, your above quote has had me chuckling for hours.
January 4, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Jim
Just for reference, the big cities aren’t so happy about it either:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_19542743
(LAUSD sues state to stop bus cuts)
January 5, 2012 at 8:55 am
Anonymous
….not to mention “Santourm from Behind”
January 5, 2012 at 8:58 am
Anonymous
err… make that Santorum. The u is behind the r.
January 5, 2012 at 9:56 am
Erasmus
Whether Ron Paul has been allotted his 15 minutes on TV is a matter I am unable to ascertain, but the print media (where I reside) has been generous to him. From the Dec. 19, 2011 ‘Christian Science Monitor,’ we learn that “says global warming is the greatest hoax I think that has been around for many, many years.’ He ‘would eliminate the EPA.’ And (no surprise) ‘government roadblocks’ on nuclear power development would be lifted. —- I’ll spare you his retrograde views on abortion. A “libertarian”? Not if you’re a woman.
January 5, 2012 at 12:29 pm
gpf
.”…why are there letters in the paper that are trying to blame Cliff for this?…
and estelles letter is just BS.”
What paper? Perhaps a link, or links to each letter?
January 5, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Fred Mangels
A “libertarian”? Not if you’re a woman.
Although I’d say they are a minority, there are libertarians opposed to abortion. Actually, I’d say a majority oppose abortion but only a minority would propose outlawing it in some way or another.
January 5, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Anonymous says
and estelles letter is just BS. did she really send it to gov. brown.?
I Just read Estelle Fennell’s s letter to the editor in the Redwood times regarding our kids school bus cuts. I cut and pasted it for people to read and see that not only is it not BS, it is well written and strongly stands up for our kids that need to get to school. I as a parent who lives rurally really appreciates that she wrote this letter.
Don’t victimize our rural children
Posted: 01/05/2012 11:09:34 AM PST
To the Editor:
Governor Brown’s recent decision to cut school transportation funding is one of the most draconian pieces of policy to come out of Sacramento in a long while.
According to news reports, he called for the cuts because of a shortfall in the state revenue stream. Given the current state of the economy, surely Governor Brown and the legislature had to know that revenues would be in decline when they put the original budget together? But I, for one, paid my taxes and they were at the same level as last year. And I strongly object to how the governor and the legislature are prioritizing the allocation of those funds.
If this is a case of playing “chicken” with the legislature, its consequences will be felt far from Sacramento’s hub. Don’t victimize our rural children.
This incredibly short-sighted move will only serve to undercut the quality of education for thousands of California’s children, put some of the most dedicated public servants (school bus drivers) out of work and fracture rural families even further. How do they propose those children will get to school?
On behalf of the 750 Southern Humboldt Unified School District (SHUSD) children and their families and the thousands of families across this county and California who will be affected by this measure, I urge Governor Brown to keep our school transportation system funded and intact.
Estelle Fennell
Redway
Candidate for Second District Supervisor
Humboldt County
January 6, 2012 at 12:07 am
Sonia Baur
Over the years there has been more and more consolidation of schools because it was said to be so much more efficient and to also provide greater educational opportunities.—Now that we have them all in one middle-high school, we are going to take away the buses. Good grief!
January 6, 2012 at 8:50 am
Eric Kirk
4:15 – The letter looks good to me as well. I also don’t see where she blames Clif.
January 6, 2012 at 9:11 am
Anonymous
where did anyone say estelle blamed cliff? i asked why are there letters blaming clif? there were other letters in other papers blaming clif. i remember one author of such a letter, can’t name names though, or eric will delete the post. you sohummers really are **%##%****
January 6, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Eric Kirk
Quote of the day from Andy Borowitz – “It says something about Mitt Romney that even compared to Rick Santorum he seems like a dick.”
January 6, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Bitter
Actually, I do think the two topics are related. Politics and public education.
Unfortunately, everything public is being privatized, whether under republicans or democrats. I read years ago in the business section of the Chron that “businesses have set their sights on education.”
And so it is coming to pass. Cut the money, less kids go.Less ADA. Cut the transportation, less kids go, less ADA. Then the school district has to go bankrupt and it gets contracted out to some private educational corp, those that are run by boards of “educators and entrepeneurs.” Might even start out as a “non-profit,”, charter school, sorta “quasi “public. Public private partnership and all that crap. But that’s just the transition phase. The great thing about being a non-profit is can’t nobody tell you what to do.
And we will be on the hook for Measure L money to buy em fancy new facilities to make profits off our kids. But hey, the kids got innernet..the only thing that matters.
January 7, 2012 at 9:04 am
Anonymous
How many of those 750 school kids have parents who grow marijuana and pay no taxes?
January 7, 2012 at 11:23 am
Anonymous
How many of those 750 school kids have parents who grow marijuana and pay no taxes?
How many of the 750 school kids have assholes for parents like the one that posted this irrelevant stupid comment?
January 8, 2012 at 7:40 am
Steve
“Irrelevant stupid comment”???? Only to someone who wants to try to cover up the elephant in the room with a baby blanket. Come on, folks, you know what the real problem is and has been for years in SoHum where probably the highest concentration of wealth in Humboldt County is concentrated–you know the 70% pot based economy where selfish pot growers, including parents of children refuse to contribute anything more than tiny token amounts here and there to non-profs while giving real estate agents, lawyers, travel agents, big-ticket consumer items huge amounts of their spendable incomes. You got a very large segment of the SoHum population that is basically exploiting the land and feeble existing social services for their own profit and luxury no-ratrace laid-back lifestyles while the servant class for these people and their children suffer needlessly because there’s no real social conscience for sharing the wealth in SoHum, only lip-service given and as I point out, token donations compared to the source of wealth generated.
January 8, 2012 at 9:01 am
moviedad
Bitter has it right. In my opinion the “New-Anti-American-Centurions” have their sites set on public education and they’ve been working overtime to starve out the schools and come riding in on a white horse to rescue them with private takeovers. Then they’ll be able to increase the instillation of propaganda in the minds of the worker class (if that’s possible).
If we don’t stop the fascist-capitalists now, it will be too late. In fact with Citizen-United starting to rear its ugly head, it may already too late to bring about change without violence.
Of course I do not endorse violence. But history shows us that violence is coming. It’s already here with regards to “law” enforcement.
January 8, 2012 at 9:20 am
Anonymous
On another subject, but one that involves marijuana, the arrests made last week on Tooby Ranch, two white guys and 5 illegal immigrants. 30 or so pounds of Hash, 100 pounds of bud, and shake, and guns.
Why weren’t the white guys names made public? Why were they released on bail when they were committing a crime, and guns were found? Plus, they are both from other states?
Eric, or ED, I would very much appreciate an answer.
January 8, 2012 at 10:41 am
Eric Kirk
Anonymous – I don’t know anything about the case, but if they were granted bail then apparently the Court did not find them to be a flight risk.
January 8, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Anonymous
“If you want to live sustainably in the sticks you should homeschool your children rather than expecting to get free school and transportation services equal to less energy intensive city services.”
you stupid f—. The service has been there, the service is being taken away. This isn’t a bunch of people in the middle of the trinity alps complaining there’s no new helicoptor school shuttles. These are parents with children who suddenly find themselves short changed by the likes of money movers who would rather spend over fifteen million dollars to make the freeway bigger in that district instead.
January 8, 2012 at 12:47 pm
Steve
But were they given preferential treatment because of being anglos? And aren’t you the lawyer for Tooby ranch subdivider?
January 8, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Eric Kirk
As to you first question Steve, I don’t know. I wouldn’t assume that based upon what I know, which is next to nothing.
As for the second question, no I’m not. I represent about a dozen individuals who purchased property on what used to be the Tooby Ranch. The subdivider hired counsel from the Bay Area, as did the County. About half a dozen local attorneys represent various purchasers, but we’re in a holding pattern waiting for resolution between the primary parties. I don’t know anything about the bust referenced in the post above.
January 8, 2012 at 5:58 pm
Steve
Eric, I asked a Question whether or not the white guys were given preferential treatment, a question, not an opinion. There’s a difference. Also, aren’t you Bob McKee’s attorney on his Tooby Ranch subdivision Community Park board?
January 8, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Eric Kirk
Also, aren’t you Bob McKee’s attorney on his Tooby Ranch subdivision Community Park board?
First of all, Bob does not own the Park, though he has been very generous to it. And no, I don’t serve as his attorney, nor the Park’s. I am a member of the Board.
January 8, 2012 at 9:59 pm
Anonymous
There’s a difference. Also, aren’t you Bob McKee’s attorney on his Tooby Ranch subdivision Community Park board?
this is that nut ed voice calling himself steve
January 9, 2012 at 1:28 am
Fantomex
@Erasmus:
I’m sorry, but I don’t think that nuclear power’s the boogeyman that everybody thinks that it is. I think that it’s necessary for what we need in order to stop global warming, and it better than what we use now. I also don’t think that wind and solar are going to be enough for our needs, and are quite intermittent to boot.Plus, I think that we need to learn from France about how to use nuclear power, as they have the lowest emmisions in Europe alone and are able to meet their Kyoto targets better than North America is doing at the moment.
So yes, there is one thing that I do agree with this man on-but let’s not be fooled, only one.
January 9, 2012 at 9:14 am
Anonymous
eric, you may not “serve” as the parks attorney, but i would be willing to bet you do give attorney advice, suggestions, answer questions, and whatever else the corporate park might need from having an attorney on the board. if you were not an attorney, and most especially an attorney who specializes in land deals and what not, you would not be on the board.
January 9, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Anonymous
“eric, you may not “serve” as the parks attorney,….”
this is that nut ed voice NOW calling himself Anonymous.
January 9, 2012 at 9:31 pm
edsvoice
Nope, I’m “that nut ed voice”, who are you?
Since you are allowing Park stuff, let me (Ed Voice) ask you Eric, how do you figure:
“First of all, Bob does not own the Park, though he has been very generous to it”
On Monday Morning Magazine with Dennis last week, “Bob” said, the Park Board gave him a $500k note in 2007 at 5% from the Randall deal and $190k in cash, not including 7 years of interest.
How do we know, “Bob” doesn’t own some part or title of the Park?
Have you looked at the Park Board tax return for 2007? Or that “Financial History” report you came up with in 2010. Nothing exists like what “Bob” recalls. You guys need to all get on the same page or read the same script.
January 10, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Eric Kirk
Sorry Ed, but after the stunt you pulled with Sanford Goldeen, I’m not engaging with you anymore.
January 10, 2012 at 10:00 pm
edsvoice
You mean when Goldeen said in public he donated 100 acres to the Community Park? You mean that “Holy Shit” stunt?
Or do you mean when Goldeen said in the paper he “mis-spoke”, that he didn’t mean to say donate, he was nervous, you mean that “stunt”?
Or do you mean what “Bob” said on Monday Morning Magazine, you mean that stunt?
You see Eric, Goldeen initiated what you are calling a “stunt”, just like the Park Board does, all I did was call him on the carpet about what he said, just like I do with the Park Board.
January 11, 2012 at 12:44 am
Eric Kirk
As I said Ed, I’m not playing anymore. That was really cheap.
January 11, 2012 at 1:12 am
edsvoice
Well, I’ve been called a lot of things, but “cheap” was never one of them.
But hey, this thread is about the SHUSD and no funding for school bus transportation. My question Eric, how much does the Community Park property generate for SHUSD from property tax assessments? Since the Park has four APN’s that total 432 acres, that’s got to be a nice chunk of change for SHUSD?
January 20, 2012 at 5:56 pm
bross@redding.com
Hey, Eric, speaking of buses, here’s a bit of good news for rural districts, who have a surprising ally in L.A. Unified:
http://blogs.redding.com/bross/archives/2012/01/a-reprieve-for-1.html
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