After a frustrated withdrawal by previous front-runner Michael Johnson, Eureka City Manager Bill Panos today announced that Andrew G. Mills, a former commanding officer in San Diego, is slated to be the next chief of the Eureka Police Department. The Eureka City Council plans to confirm Mills at its Oct. 1 meeting, according to a […]
Ryan Burns
Ryan Burns worked for the Journal from 2008 to 2013, covering a diverse mix of North Coast subjects, from education, politics and marijuana to human suspension, sex parties and amateur fight contests. He won awards for investigative reporting, feature stories and news coverage.
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Sonny Wong Paints Live in New Chuck Johnson Video
Local videographer extraordinaire Chuck Johnson produced the above video of artist Sonny Wong performing live art and discussing his craft.
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Caltrans Commits to Bay Trail
Perhaps nervous about Thursday’s Coastal Commission hearing, Caltrans has agreed that construction on the proposed “Eureka-Arcata 101 Corridor Improvement Project” won’t begin until funding is secured for a bay trail along the same stretch. And it has reiterated a promise to throw in $1 million of its own funds toward the trail. Now, cynics might […]
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Crossbow Murder Suspects in Custody
The suspects in Sunday’s crossbow shootings, which left one man dead and another injured on the Samoa peninsula, have been detained. Here’s the press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: On 09-09-13, approximately 3:15 p.m. both suspects in the below case were taken into custody. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office received a call from […]
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Suspect Named in Weekend Crossbow Murder
A 29 20-year-old transient man named Phoenix Triton King and an unidentified 16-year-old girl are wanted on charges of murder and attempted murder after yesterday’s brutal crossbow attack near Manila, which left one man dead and another injured. A 44-year-old man was fatally shot in the face with a crossbow arrow yesterday afternoon while a […]
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Bay Trail Dealt a Blow: Arcata’s TIGER Grant Application Not Funded
Bad news for those hoping to see a bike and pedestrian trail built between Arcata and Eureka: The City of Arcata today got shot down in its application for a $2.7 million grant from the federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. As this week’s cover story mentions, the city — and county — […]
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Building a Better Corridor
Newcomers to Humboldt County, especially those arriving from more urban areas, are often amused when locals complain that driving from Arcata to Eureka, or vice-versa, is just “too far.” And they have a point. That four-lane stretch of U.S. Route 101 is barely six miles long. Seems longer, right? Maybe that’s due, at least in […]
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Just Cuz You’re Paranoid …
“This is the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition.” That’s what a Denver dispensary owner told the New York Times last week in response to what’s being called (by some) a historic memo from Attorney General Eric Holder. In his long-awaited response to the legalization of weed-for-fun in Colorado and Washington, Holder said the […]
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The View from the Chopper
Congressman Jared Huffman came to town this week, along with veteran news anchor Dan Rather and his crew, to get briefed on the unholy clusterfuck that is our rogue marijuana industry. It’s an industry subsidized and metastasized thanks to the artificial price constraints resulting from the War on Drugs. On Tuesday morning, Sheriff Mike Downey […]
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Dan Rather and Jared Huffman Tour Pot Grows in a Helicopter
In this week’s “Week in Weed” column, we chat with our U.S. Congressman, Rep. Jared Huffman, about his latest trip to Humboldt, during which he was briefed by Sheriff Mike Downey about marijuana issues and interviewed by the one and only Dan Rather. They also went for a helicopter ride. Pick up this week’s Journal […]
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Weirder and Weirder
Simply put, the marijuana issue in America has gotten weird. Long confined to the dank and smoky shadows of the underground as a Schedule 1 narcotic, weed has come staggering into the sunlight of quasi-legality. And it’s a bit of a trip. Suddenly, there’s CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, declaring that Americans have […]
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Journal Interviews Chris Lehman, Your Fresh-Faced Candidate for State Senate
About an hour after announcing his run for State Senate, Chris Lehman, an Arcata family man and, at the tender age of 36, a Sacramento insider, sat down with the Journal for a croissant sandwich and coffee (in his own mug) at Ramone’s in Old Town. Bottom line? The guy’s prepped and ready to go. […]