If you saw Tuesday’s edition of the Times-Standard, you couldn’t have missed the splashy, above-the-fold cover feature about Sunset Magazine‘s most recent issue featuring Humboldt County on it’s own cover. The hypish piece was “special to the Times-Standard,” and was essentially a story about the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors’ Bureau’s efforts to help the venerable […]
Grant Scott-Goforth
Grant Scott-Goforth was an assistant editor and staff writer for The Journal from 2013 to 2017.
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The Shortest Distance Between Two Points…
A pair of Arcata streets is slated for improvements over the next several months — a move the city hopes will encourage cyclists to access the city’s busy downtown. T he plan is relatively straightforward, excepting one lopsided detour. The so-called bike boulevard will stretch east-west along the length of 10th Street (including the one […]
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Will Not Comply
Sheriff Mike Downey says the jail will continue to release inmates during late night and early morning hours, despite a recent recommendation from the Humboldt County grand jury to halt the practice. The grand jury also suggests that the county jail may be violating state law by not providing inmates arrested at distant locations a […]
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Why Did it Take Two Years for an Embezzlement Sentence to Begin?
Nearly four years after charges were filed — and two years after being sentenced to 180 days in jail for a nearly half-million-dollar embezzlement — Jeffrey Harry Lang began serving his sentence this week. Technically, Lang, who pleaded guilty to one count of felony embezzlement in January 2012, served one day in jail immediately following […]
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Best Myth
Runner Up: Everyone Smokes Weed Of course it’s Bigfoot. Humboldt County’s home to the greatest of all bigfoot relics: the Patterson-Gimlin film (well, it’s a matter of dispute whether the exact site, near Bluff Creek out of Weitchpec, is in Del Norte County, but come on). It’s home to two of Bigfoot’s most prominent and […]
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Best Bloody Mary
Runner Up: AA Bar and Grill Ah, the Bloody Mary. One doesn’t have to be looking for hair of the dog, but the cushioned bartop and dim lighting of the Alibi will aid recovery from the worst debauchery. It’s an anytime drink, honestly. You crave the salt on a sweaty summer day. You crave the […]
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High Times
The New York Times sounded like the voice of reason last week with a detailed and convincing six-part editorial series calling for the federal government to legalize marijuana. Repealing the 1970 ban, the Grey Lady’s editors argued, is a states’ rights issue and would ease the unjust application of marijuana enforcement. Science is on the […]
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Houses of Cards
The fantasy worlds of modern fiction are cruel places, made up of vying factions, of loyalties forged, bent and destroyed, of cutthroat competition and nailbiting peril. The voyeurs that would inhabit those imagined worlds sometimes find themselves in similar situations in their real lives: scratching for survival, swearing (or deigning) allegiance, sharpening their skills … […]
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No More Late Night Jail Releases, Says Grand Jury
The Humboldt County Grand jury is calling for Sheriff Mike Downey to enact changes to the county jail’s release policies, including a recommendation to end late-night and early-morning releases. “The people of Humboldt County would be better served if Humboldt County Correctional Facility stopped releasing inmates between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.,” reads a report […]
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Feds: Want Extra Water? Show Us Dead Fish
An appeal from the Hoopa Tribe for more water down the Trinity River yielded no increase, as the Secretary of the Interior announced this week that extra flows, requested to prevent a potential fish kill on the Klamath, would not be released. Mike Orcutt, Fisheries Director for the Hoopa Tribe, was in Washington, D.C. last […]
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Interview with a Ganjier
Wind your way just north of Garberville, through the narrow driveway behind the Renner gas station and, if you can find a place to park, you’re in OG Kush heaven. On a sunny, windless day, light beams through a big, open-shutter door onto several rooms bustling with activity. Workers clip leaf bunches off of marijuana […]
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Re-Planned Parenthood
There’s a shuffle of nomenclature going on at the North Coast’s only Planned Parenthood clinic, which is about to take on new management. But despite recent money problems, people involved in the current and future management of the clinic insist the services Planned Parenthood provides to 9,000 North Coast residents will not change. Here’s the […]