The 2-year-old toddling in front of Nickelodeon, one pudgy first wrapped around the remote as her daddy packs boxes, took her first steps inside this small, plain duplex in McKinleyville. It’s where her parents celebrated her first birthday and first Christmas, where her older sister had friends so close they looked on it as […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Lashing out at Grow Houses
Arcata could be starting something big. Its anti-grow electricity tax is being watched as a pioneering model for not just the city of Eureka but for all of unincorporated Humboldt County. Arcata voters were strongly backing the tax, by 69 percent to 31 percent, in the latest counts Wednesday morning, with only a majority […]
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Goodbye Halloween, Hello Hospital
A severed ear, a broken jaw and a broken nose for the civilians, along with a cut lip for a cop, were among the injuries Arcata police counted up during this year’s Halloween … uh … can it be called a celebration? The Plaza was packed, even with its core cordoned off and officers on […]
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About Those Props
For those still weighing the 11 statewide ballot measures, they are: Prop. 30: Raises taxes temporarily to fund schools and some state programs. Prop: 31: Changes state budget cycle; shifts some sales tax money from state to counties. Prop. 32: Sharply limits unions’ political contributions. Prop. 33: Lets insurance companies set rates partly on […]
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Two Deaths, Many Questions
Scorched by the attention that followed a slaying in Hoopa and a fatal hit-and-run crash, Humboldt County prosecutors have begun opposing every single request for release under a legal deal called a Cruz waiver. The temporary stance, which could last a few weeks, is aimed at giving prosecutors time to decide whether to set new […]
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The Sleaze Starts Sizzlin’
Does Humboldt know its sleaze, or what? The ink was barely dry on our Sleazy Campaign Ad contest when the first contender was dropped off at our office, courtesy of Brian Connors of Eureka. [Click image to enlarge.] Brian was at work when we got back in touch, so he couldn’t take time to explain […]
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Proposition Primer
Sample ballots are going out and the advertising twist ‘n’ spin is on! Watch out for some of those ads — big money knows how to tell big lies, and there is some big, big money being spent this year on some of the 11 statewide ballot measures. You can find plenty of information, including […]
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Give Us the Slime, the Lies …
… the wretched masses from your election-teeming mailbox. Because we’re hunting for the most scurrilous, most distorted campaign material making the rounds in Humboldt. It’s a contest! When you see a campaign whopper, drop it off at our office at 310 F. St. in Old Town Eureka, with a little note about what you think […]
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That property tax bill? Er … never mind
For the last couple of years, every time auditor-controller Joe Mellett told Humboldt County supes he really needed some more accountants, it was “basically just me whining to the board,” Mellett recalled over the phone on Thursday afternoon. So Mellett sucked it up like lots of people on understaffed job sites. Sometimes work went unchecked. […]
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Jogger in fatal crash identified
UPDATE 9/30: Suzanne Seeman Obituary Released The jogger killed yesterday in a hit-and-run crash that seriously injured her two companions was Suzanne Wetzel Seemann, an HSU geography lecturer and the wife of Hank Seemann, Humboldt County’s deputy director of environmental services. Suzanne Seemann specialized in oceanic and atmospheric science, according to a press release from […]
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Car plows into 3 joggers, kills Bayside woman
The mother of two young children was the jogger killed this morning after a car left the road on Myrtle Avenue near Ole Hansen Road, a relative has confirmed. The Journal is withholding her name for now to ensure that all family members can be notified. The woman, 40, is married to a Humboldt County […]
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Imagine All the Voters …
For an hour on a Monday night, a few hundred people imagined a different America: one where no one went bankrupt because he got sick, where homeowners were bailed out instead of bankers, and where the military was used for defense, not offense. Standing at a podium at Humboldt State University, a small, slim […]