Didn’t have time to read this week’s cover story? We get it. Summer just disappeared in a blink and now it’s time to get ready for one of those famous rainy Humboldt winters. If you’d rather spend the weekend winterizing the house than catching up on current events, we put together a quiz from week’s […]
Linda Stansberry
Linda Stansberry was a staff writer of the North Coast Journal from 2015 to 2018. She is a frequent contributor the the Journal and our other publications.
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Local Law Enforcement Leaders Promise to Protect Immigrants
Every pew in the small white United Methodist Church at the corner of Del Norte and F streets was filled on Monday evening, with people standing in the back aisles and sitting on plastic chairs in the overflow room. Many fanned themselves with programs. Spanish speakers wore headsets provided by the Humboldt Area Foundation, listening […]
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Losers Rejoice
Reviews IT. Stephen King has a hard time relinquishing creative control of his body of work. He famously hated Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining, saying it left out the moral overtones of its source material. In 1997, King tried to rectify this by collaborating on a television miniseries that starred goofy-haired Steven Weber (’90s […]
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Things Stay the Same
Cody King made a hard decision. The lanky 28-year-old, born and raised in Honeydew, who came of age when CAMP helicopters still buzzed the hills, told himself there was nothing to fear when members of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office pulled up to his gate. This was in 2016 and King had a folder full […]
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Drunk in Public
In the long, hot month of August, as ash fell from the sky, the sun and moon did a brief astronomical dance and the public’s attention darted from national tragedies like Charlottesville and local dramas like the arson and razing of Eureka’s Blue Heron Motel, law enforcement officers in Humboldt County quietly continued to work […]
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Things Have Changed
Erika Morlan made a hard decision. Fed up with the noise from the generators and fans, the odor of diesel exhaust, the rapidly disappearing meadow around her home, she did something that’s just not done in Honeydew: She blew the whistle on her neighbor’s grow. Morlan, who goes by the nickname “Squeaky,” has lived in […]
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Resisting Reparations
Twenty days before he went on KINS Radio’s “Talkshop” program and touched off a public firestorm by grumbling about the city of Eureka’s “giving away” Indian Island to the Wiyot Tribe, Robin P. Arkley II had some questions. An email dated July 11, sent from Arkley’s company Security National to Eureka City Manager Greg Sparks […]
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St. Joseph Hospital Fined by the State for Juggling Surgeries
An April 2014 incident in which a surgeon had to leave a hysterectomy to perform an emergency Cesarean section has resulted in a $40,000 fine for St. Joseph Hospital from the California Department of Public Health. In its press release, the CDPH stated “the hospital failed to ensure the health and safety of a patient […]
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Shot in the Dark
Despite fears, it appears that California Senate Bill 277, the controversial public health law that prohibits children from attending public school unless they have been vaccinated against a spectrum of diseases such as Hepatitis B, measles, polio and rubella, has not had a signficant impact on enrollment in local schools. (“Prepare for Impact,”Aug. 25, 2016.) […]
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Strumming Up a Case
Free speech or solicitation? A Humboldt County judge is slated to decide in October whether or not Oscar Leatherman, who has been busking in Eureka for three years, violated the city’s panhandling ordinance last year, when crooning on a street corner drew him a citation from Eureka police. Leatherman, who has since written a song […]
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Arkley Emails Foreshadow Litigation over Tuluwat Island
Twenty days before he went on KINS Radio’s “Talkshop” program and touched off a public firestorm by musing aloud about the city of Eureka’s “giving away” Indian Island to the Wiyot Tribe, Robin P. Arkley II had some questions. A letter dated July 11, sent from Arkley’s company Security National to Eureka City Manager Greg […]
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DHHS, Sheriff, Respond to Grand Jury Reports on Child Welfare
In June, the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury released two reports related to the outcomes of at-risk youth in our county child welfare system. The reports, “Child Welfare In Humboldt: Getting the Door Open” and “Responding in Time to Help Our ‘At Risk’ Children,’” allege that the three agencies most responsible for protecting local children, […]