Two weeks after the election, and the county feels like it’s still on the exhale. Trinidad City Manager Steve Albright retired. The Humboldt Redwood Company sold Scotia’s old biomass power plant to an outside concern. Kathy Moxon, longtime director of community strategies at the Humboldt Area Foundation and a powerhouse in the local economic […]
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Saturday Night Funnies
• Journal contributor Amy Stewart tells an amusing tale about weed, literature and Eureka Books in tomorrow’s New York Times. • At the Humboldt Herald, Paul Gallegos supporter “Richard” (?!?) declares fatwah on Supervisor Mark Lovelace for the crime of supporting Paul Hagen. You got Geisted!
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Secure That Wi-fi!
The Google is rolling though town, crackin’ your passwordz. Reader AJ snapped this shot of their crew coming straight outta out of Cooper Gulch yesterday.
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Ace in the Hole
There are two major Humboldt County political parties. I call them the “progressives” and the “conservatives,” though I’m more than willing to field other suggestions. Regardless, the salient point of last week’s election was that it was the most lopsided contest since the rise of the progressive vote a decade ago. The conservative sweep of […]
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Prop. 19: RIP
Nothing on the Nov. 2 ballot would have affected Humboldt County so profoundly as Proposition 19. Governors and senators come and go, and may, if they are talented and lucky, leave behind a few scratches on the wall. Local elected officials possess the power to regulate land use and development, but their job, apart from […]
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Me & Estelle & Elizabeth Talk Politics at HSU Tonight
Want to get your local politics on after work today? Swing on by HSU for the annual Schaub Lecture, which goes from 5:30 to 7 p.m. tonight in the BSS Forum building. The topic this year is “Development in Humboldt County,” and it will feature a panel discussion between Estelle Fennell of the Humboldt Coalition […]
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12,960 Ballots Left to Count
… according to Humboldt County Clerk-Recorder Carolyn Crnich. That gives Patrick Cleary and other candidates still hanging on by a thread a tiny bit more cause to hope.
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Elections — Who’s Still Alive?
We’re still waiting to get through to the Elections Office, but several campaigns are reporting that there are 10,000 late absentee and provisional ballots left to be counted. This roughly jibes with what we’ve seen in the past. In the June primary, when turnout was much lower, there were 6,556 votes counted after the polls […]
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FINAL REPORT
Gallegos holds on, conservatives sweep all else. Or does Cleary still have a fighting chance in the Fifth?
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THIRD REPORT
NOTE! This report includes all Eureka precincts but one. FOURTH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Bass 56.21% Neely 43.10% FIFTH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Cleary 48.47% Sundberg 51.24% ASSESSOR Rodoni 40.53% Wilson 59.25% DA Gallegos 45.82% Jackson 53.97% EUREKA MAYOR Jager 51.95% LaVallee 43.09% Spalding 4.65% EUREKA FIRST WARD Glass 42.44% Brady 57.31% EUREKA THIRD WARD Kuhnel 42.18% Newman 43.72% […]
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SECOND REPORT
54 of 134 precincts reporting FOURTH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Bass — 57.57% Neely — 41.75% FIFTH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Cleary — 48.47% Sundberg — 51.24% ASSESSOR Rodoni — 41.05% Wilson — 58.76% DA Gallegos — 44.37% Jackson — 55.44% EUREKA MAYOR Jager — 53.27% LaVallee — 41.72% Spalding 4.67% EUREKA FIRST WARD Glass — 41.09% Brady — […]
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Scenes from the Election
The Humboldt County Election Office was slammed at the lunch hour. Citizens were dropping off ballots as the phones rang and rang, while a beefed-up elections staff scurried from place to place carrying sheafs of papers. County Clerk-Recorder Carolyn Crnich was down in the basement with the tabulation equipment, fiddling with a computer in preparation […]