Kym has all the details. Probably more being reported on KMUD as I type.
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January 24, 2012 at 7:03 pm
anon4cec
Don’t get me wrong. I am actually very appreciative that Chesbro and Evans are working hard to restore school transportation funding. But where were they when they voted for, and in Chesbro’s case authored the budget bill that created the problem in the first place. I like that they get it now, that they feel the pain, but where is the deep and profound apology for having caused the issue. The way I was raised, it is okay to make a mistake but the first thing you do when a mistake is made is to say “I’m sorry” and next to make amends, then finally there was an obligation to learn from the mistake and do better next time. If all these politicians weren’t so busy playing politics with our lives and fighting absurd battles over stupid shit they might actually have the time to read and understand the bills that have their names on them. Moreover, they might actually learn something rather than acting like idiots over and over again. At some point as a society we actually need to make progresss.
Anyway, thanks guys for begining the process of cleaning up your mess. Sorry we had to send our kids to show you the way.
January 24, 2012 at 7:19 pm
anon says
Clendenan said he would be there and never showed up.
January 24, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Ernie's place
Watch channel 3 tomorrow at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00. Kelly may was there doing a very good job of recording the whole event. It will be interesting to see what makes the news. You can be very proud of our community. We were cheerful, peaceful, and persuasive.
Estelle Fennell was interviewed, I don’t know what she said. I got to talk to both Noreen Evans and Wesley Chesbro. They are very confident that the request for funding will pass, it only needs a simple majority. But, the wild card is Jerry Brown, he can veto it. Go figger. I really think that we have a good chance that Brown will see the wisdom of funding the buses and cutting elsewhere. We had a very impressive turnout for a small community. I couldn’t stop smiling.
January 25, 2012 at 9:16 am
gpf
OK Ernie, I’ll figger. I suspect that Jerry will veto. ‘Smart growth’ people use politics to encourage rural folks to move into the cities ‘for the good of all’.
Not being able to give your kids schooling in the country is a powerful incentive to give up rural living. Clendenan is a black hole.
I guess what bothers me most is that there are ‘smart’ people (generally from the towns and cities) that feel the compulsion to control and plan for the rural people. If this ‘smart’ is related to intelligence, it is certainly a matter of ‘kind’ and not ‘degree’.
January 25, 2012 at 9:22 am
Anonymous
I never heard Cliff say that Kathleen. You really need to stop your smear campaign, and making shit up.
Clif has been on the phone to both Chesbro, Evans, speaking in person with Gary Eagles, working for the entire community.
Fennell, just taking another photo op.
She is even more egotistical than our eric.
January 25, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Not A Native
Eric, only a bit off topic.
I recommend you to Wendy Lestina’s column on page 3 of the Jan 19 edition of the Ferndale Enterprise. Its about recruiting a doctor and offers some very honest assessments of the state of human capital in rural HumCo. I think it would make for a good thread….
BTW what should students in Covina(e.g.) do without in order to provide SoHum parents free door-to-door transport services, regardless of the disproportionate public costs in $$, environmental impacts, and time their children must devote to daily transportation?
Oh yeah, a large benefit for the few at a small expense to each of the many. The same strategy that banks and Wall street use, getting special advantages by taking tiny percentage fees from many many people.
January 25, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Eric Kirk
Frankly, they can take it out of highway funding if it’s absolutely necessary. I’d rather deal with pot holes than deal without school buses, and the resultant lost of ADA funding.
January 26, 2012 at 7:03 am
longwind
NAN, I’d suggest the kids of Covino do without 10,000 police officers federally subsidized to keep suburbs, but not rural areas, free from whatever they’re terrified of. Then I’d have them do without their richly subsidized sewage system, just like we do. Then they could learn to do without county services, like we do.
I could go on–like you do.
January 26, 2012 at 10:42 am
Joe Blow
The bite gets tight when everything finally comes home to roost, doesn’t it, Eric? Guess who is getting the last laugh on you?
January 26, 2012 at 10:56 am
Anonymous
Covina has a much larger tax base than Southern Humboldt. It is absolutely ridiculous that it costs $600, per child, to run a bus here. Folks here are jumping on the bus for this new idea of an even, across the board cut, so everyone takes an equal hit. Well, maybe Humboldt should also take on the idea of receiving the same amount of $$ per child as everyone else for bus service.
You want to live the rural lifestyle, then pay for it.
Erick, estelle will have a fit when she sees you saying you’d rather have pot holes.
That was one of her major stump issues, don’t you remember how concerned she said we all were about potholes?
January 26, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Eric Kirk
The bite gets tight when everything finally comes home to roost, doesn’t it, Eric? Guess who is getting the last laugh on you?
Huh?
January 26, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Joe Blow
Whoops! I sometimes forget you’re a practicing lawyer and have a lot on your mind – and a short memory…
Remember, when you told me, “time will tell”? Well, everything you’re talking about here (no money for school transportation, etc.) proves my point(s). Everyone sits like ‘fat cats’ with not a worry in the world until the problem affects them. Then it’s a different story. Time to fix, or at least try to fix some of these problems was when some of us were first talking about them. But, then, nobody conveniently remembers any of that.
January 26, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Eric Kirk
Oh, well, I knew that revenues were down and the money would come out of something. But I think we’ll pull out of this.
January 26, 2012 at 6:37 pm
anon says
“You want to live the rural lifestyle, then pay for it.”
whoever came up with this line is an idiot.
Rural people pay through the ying yang through our parcel/property taxes, inheritance taxes,sales taxes, gas taxes,bed taxes, excise taxes, Hospital parcel taxes, SCHOOL parcel taxes and taxes that never end on our heavy equipment that we use to farm log or fish (even when the equip is broken if you still own it you pay every year a tax on it.) So don’t make assinine statements implying that rural people don’t pay our share. We pay MORE that our share and very little comes back to us by way of services. Rural people and our life in the country is under attack by these out of touch city slickers. Urban “centers” could NOT survive without rural people’s tax $$.
January 26, 2012 at 10:37 pm
anon says
My daughter opened up the Times Standard this morning and saw not one but two pictures of herself, classmates and adults , including Estelle Fennell who was with us in Sacramento.
Anyone who has been paying attention sees that Estelle has been IN PERSON talking to both Chesbro, Evans, speaking in person with Gary Eagles, working for the entire community……..
And it’s true that Clif did tell people that he would be there and he did not show up.
January 27, 2012 at 9:03 am
Anonymous
tit for tat bullshit.
January 31, 2012 at 10:16 pm
edsvoice
It would seem to me Eric, that if the Community Park Board would pay its fair share of property tax, SHUSD, CR, and SHCHD assessments for $1.125 Million or current market value of 400 acres of prime ag lands, that would support your claim or assertion the Southern Humboldt Community Park is a Community Asset and Community/Public benefit?