If a group of disgruntled Blue Lake residents succeeds in their effort to simultaneously recall three members of the city council, it will thrust the city into unprecedented territory. According to Journal consultations with more than a dozen legal experts and legislative analysts, the triple recall would leave the city with a council potentially unable […]
Thadeus Greenson
Thadeus Greenson is the news editor of the North Coast Journal.
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The Disappearing Registrants
For years, Elizabeth Thurston used the website as a kind of salve. She’d check it for affirmation, clicking her abuser’s name so it would come up for the world to see, reinforcing that through the awful experiences that shaped her childhood and, in turn, her life, she’d taken a stand as an 8 year old […]
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Huffman: Senate Budget Bill a ‘Betrayal’
North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman issued a blistering statement calling the budget bill narrowly passed by Senate Republicans shortly before the Journal went to press July 1 a “betrayal,” warning it will have devastating economic, environmental and health impacts. “The Senate just jammed through a scorched-earth reconciliation bill so toxic that it is worse than […]
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In Gratitude
This is the 600th edition of the North Coast Journal that I’ve had some hand in publishing as the newspaper’s news editor. It will also be the last. For more than a decade, just about every Tuesday of my life has been consumed with finishing up the week’s paper. It’s been a regular ritual, the […]
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A Place to Stop and Rest
When the Wiyot Tribe decided to leverage its resources to tackle Humboldt County’s housing crisis, it didn’t just start buying land to develop. Instead, tribal officials spent two years listening. “We spent two years studying housing,” says Dishgamu Community Land Trust Director Michelle Vassel. “We went to big events, farmers markets and just asked people […]
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Sheriff’s Office Identifies Deputy Who Shot Bear River Suspect
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the deputy who fatally shot a suspect allegedly charging him with a knife on June 5 as Cpl. Bradford Anderson, a nine-year veteran of the office. Anderson remains on paid administrative leave, as is standard protocol, according to a press release. The other deputy at the scene did […]
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More Information Emerges in Fatal Police Shooting in Bear River
As information continues to trickle out regarding the June 5 fatal shooting of a 29-year-old Simi Valley man by a Humboldt County sheriff’s deputy, a picture is emerging of the man who allegedly rushed a deputy with a knife having been in prolonged medical distress. According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to […]
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AG Seeks to Force St. Joseph Hospital to Comply with Agreement in Abortion Case
California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office filed a motion June 9 in Humboldt County Superior Court seeking a judge’s order enforcing a stipulation reached in a lawsuit brought against Providence St. Joseph Hospital last year requiring it to comply with state’s Emergency Service Law and provide emergency abortive procedures when they are deemed medically necessary. […]
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Deputy Fatally Shoots Man in Bear River After Medical Aid Call
A Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a 29-year-old man yesterday afternoon at the Bear River Recreation Center who was allegedly armed and combative. According to a press release, deputies responded to the center at 2:16 p.m. to a report of a man with a bloody, bandaged arm “actively dripping blood throughout the facility.” Responding […]
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A Newly Accessible ‘Treasure’
The Arcata Ball Park got a much needed makeover expanding access to Crabs games for those with mobility challenges this spring, and it’s thanks largely to a huge Crabs fan in a high place. North Coast state Sen. and Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire announced that he’d secured $1 million in state funding to […]
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Rancor, Recalls and a Resignation
Things have gotten awfully muddy in Blue Lake. The city council’s decision to part ways with longtime City Manager Amanda Mager early last month has laid bare deep divisions in the small city of about 1,200 residents, prompting an extended series of social media spats between those applauding the newly elected council majority’s move and […]
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Sheriff’s Office Identifies Contractor Killed in Landslide as Former Police Sergeant
An employee of a Caltrans contractor was killed Saturday morning during an active landslide on State Route 36 east of Swimmer’s Delight, the agency announced. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office identified the man killed as former Eureka Police Sgt. Rodrigo Reyna-Sanchez, 58, who reportedly took up work with the contracting company after his retirement in […]