As we announced earlier this week, the Journal is giving away four (4) four-day passes to this year’s Reggae on the River festival. Yup, straight givin’ ’em away. Like, for free. All you have to do to enter is record a video of no longer than 29 seconds, upload it to the Internet and send […]
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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Humboldt County Sheriff’s Officer Fired After Alleged Assault
A deputy with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office was fired late last month after he allegedly kicked a sleeping inmate at the county jail. The officer, named Sean O’Brien, also allegedly directed racial slurs at inmates on numerous occasions, according to a June 24 inter-office memo. The memo, which was sent by Sheriff Mike Downey, […]
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Environmental Groups Appeal Ruling in North Coast Railroad Authority Case
The North Coast Railroad Authority has had its share of headaches over the years — many of them self-induced — and now a headache the state agency thought cured has returned. Two local environmental groups — Friends of the Eel River (FOER) and Californians for Alternatives to Toxics (CATs) — announced today that they have […]
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Hunger Strike Resumes at Pelican Bay [Updated]
UPDATE: The Bay Area group Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity released the above video yesterday, which gives a brief recap of the issues that sparked the original hunger strike and calls for public support. Original post: This morning at 11, prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison began their third hunger strike in the past two years […]
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Co-op Security Company Defends Officer Actions
Timothy O’Neal, owner and president of Sacramento-based Protection Loss Prevention, says his officer used textbook police technique when he apprehended an alleged shoplifter Saturday afternoon across the street from the Arcata Co-op. O’Neal’s company has been contracted by the Co-op since 2011. As we reported yesterday, bead store owner Michael King witnessed the tail end […]
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Eureka Reportedly Offers Police Chief Job to Michael Johnson, Officer Involved in Fatal Cheri Lyn Moore Shooting
The Anderson Valley Post is reporting that the job of Eureka’s next police chief has been offered to Michael Johnson, a former EPD sergeant who was involved in the fatal 2006 shooting of 49-year-old Eureka resident Cheri Lyn Moore. Eureka City Manager Bill Panos yesterday confirmed that a job offer had been made but declined […]
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Arcata Co-op Security Accused of Using Excessive Force
A civilian “loss prevention officer” employed by the North Coast Co-op in Arcata chased down and handcuffed an alleged shoplifter on Saturday afternoon, and a neighboring business owner who witnessed the arrest says the man used excessive force. Michael King, a co-op member and owner of the bead supply store on the corner of Eighth […]
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Stonerpocalypse
Reviews THIS IS THE END. I feel somehow out of line for not liking this movie all that much. For years now I’ve been tracking the careers of the principal actors, who all play tweaked versions of themselves here. And as a writing team on movies such as Superbad and Pineapple Express, Evan Goldberg and […]
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Frustrated Trail Advocates Launch Rogue Experiment on the Dunes
Yesterday afternoon, a small group of people, two horses and a dog hiked along the sandy path from the Manila Community Center across the rolling dunes to the ocean. When they reached the front line of dunes, where vegetation peters out and the beach slopes down to the coastline, two men began shoving and hammering […]
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Phillip Smith-Hanes, the County’s Chief Administrative Officer, is Job Hunting
County supervisors have had a lot of disagreements over the past three and a half years, but there seems to be consensus on at least one subject: Phillip Smith-Hanes is damn good at his job. So it will likely be a disappointment to learn that the county’s chief administrative officer since December 2009 is one […]
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Oyster Hysteria Roundup
Attendance numbers are still an open question for tomorrow’s Oyster Fest on the Arcata Plaza, but when it comes to community engagement, this sucker’s already a blockbuster. Ever since the Journal‘s Bob Doran broke news of this year’s $10 admission fee, the community has been atwitter (and, uh, Twittering, Facebooking, etc.) with opinions, questions, concerns […]
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Hodgson Issues Call for Supervisor Challengers in KHUM Interview
Elaborating on her op-ed piece in this week’s issue, Journal Publisher Judy Hodgson took to the airwaves this afternoon, telling KHUM’s Mike Dronkers that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors’ recent vote to replace the guiding principles in the general plan update was “one of the more blatant power grabs that I’ve seen in all […]