Today the city of Eureka and county of Humboldt officially launched their Housing First campaign. The get-together from noon to 1 p.m. at city hall featured light refreshments and a discussion on how to house 30 people in 60 days, an “achievable goal” recommended as the initial step for implementation of a larger Housing First […]
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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NOMRL
Damn, but we love our views. We love them so much that, back in 2011, some of us successfully levied this love into stopping the big baddies at Shell Energy from installing wind turbines on Bear River Ridge, just south of Ferndale. “Unsightly!” was the argument. OK, well, there were other arguments, like the prospect […]
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The Death of Jeannie Newstrom
Before you read the details of Jeannie Newstrom’s death or the painful, gruesome and — if the allegations are to be believed — entirely preventable indignities that led up to it, there are some things you should know about her life. “She was a great cook,” says her son Sherman Newstrom. “She made jams and […]
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The Taxman Cometh
Public comment during last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting stretched close to two hours, as many small growers turned up to protest a proposed excise tax. While county staff had originally recommended a tiered system in which taxes scale up with grow sizes, topping out at $6 per square foot for a 10,000-square-foot indoor grow, […]
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Insert Sensationalist Weed-related Headline Here
The longer I work in media, the more tempted I am to write a guide for the general public on how media works. And, given that I’ve only worked in media for a little more than a year, logic would imply that, at some point very soon, I’ll succumb to temptation, leave my job at […]
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City of Eureka: Pick Up Your Stuff
On Tuesday night the Eureka City Council voted 4-0, with councilmember Kim Bergel absent, to approve a Storage of Personal Property Ordinance that will allow the police department to tag, then bag property left on city land. The ordinance comes as a response to recent issues with people leaving items behind after staying in designated […]
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UPDATE: Klamath Boating Accident Victim Identified
At 10:30 a.m. today, a Yurok Tribal Police Department officer assisted a sheriff’s deputy to recover the body of James Dennis Cook, also known as Major. Cook’s body was tangled up in branches and brush in the river. He had been missing since last Friday following a boating accident. The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office will […]
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The Naked Truth
This week’s Republican National Convention was marked by the appearance of 100 naked women holding mirrors, a photography project by Spencer Tunick. Tunick has positioned the naked bodies of people in 70 different photoshoots across the world. In a statement prior to the RNC, Tunick said, “By holding mirrors, we hope to suggest that women […]
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Jail Adds Suicide Netting to Budget
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will discuss tomorrow whether to add a provision for suicide netting to the Humboldt County jail’s budget. The item comes after a rash of suicide attempts — 12 in 2015 — in the facility, one of which proved fatal. Two of the 12 attempts involved inmates jumping from the […]
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Eureka City Council Set to Discuss Food Trucks, Personal Property
The Eureka City Council will vote Tuesday on whether to allow food trucks or “mobile vendors” to operate in specifically zoned sections of the city, potentially pass a storage of personal property ordinance and (probably) grant two more contracts to the Mercer Fraser Co. The mobile vendors ordinance, which was discussed at length July 5, […]
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Predicting the Unpredictable
A decent winter’s rain does not mean an easy season for firefighters. True, this last year capped a record-breaking four-year drought with a moderately wet El Niño, but the drought, according to meteorologists, is not over. The aquifers and snowpacks are far from replenished and the woods and fields are drying out. According to Cal […]
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Pot Not the New Almond
How much marijuana is being grown in Humboldt County? We’ve all heard some store porch supposition on the subject, but there’s little actual data to back it up. A recent article, published in the April edition of Environmental Research Letters, may help fill this vacuum. University of California Berkeley research specialist Van Butsic, and Jacob […]