The Humboldt County Fair Association reiterated its intent to again apply for horse racing dates during the August fair from a state board next month, despite a tightening timeline and a host of uncertainties. During a report from the association’s Racing Committee at its April 28 board meeting, committee Chair Greg Gomes said he’s “trying […]
Thadeus Greenson
Thadeus Greenson is the news editor of the North Coast Journal.
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The Real Cost of Eggs
In the runup to the November election, eggs took on an almost mythical status, their price tags acting as both a kind of poster for the Trump campaign and a symbol for Democrats’ perceived inability to speak directly to inflation, the issue we were told most concerned voters. In the election’s final days, the average […]
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‘If Only We’d Done More to Save Her’
Some years ago, Laurel Uber says she ended up with a small, unused wooden coffin, given to her wife by someone at church who’d made it. “It’s been sitting around the house,” Uber says, adding they’d been unsure what to do with it. That changed in the lead up to the April 19 protest in […]
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Honsal Calls for Immigration Reform, Pathway to Citizenship
Forty-eight hours after protesters filled the streets across the nation, many to decry the mass deportations being carried out by the Trump administration, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal told the Journal the time is right for Congress to pursue comprehensive immigration reform. Honsal said he supports providing a path to citizenship for immigrants in the […]
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Sheriff Announces ‘Strong Opposition’ to Serial Rapist’s Pending Release
Editor’s note: Be advised, this story covers violent sexual assaults and may be disturbing to some readers. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal released a letter to the community at noon today announcing his “strong opposition” to the proposed release of a man once known locally in the late 1980s as the “Ski Mask Rapist” to […]
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Providence St. Joseph Faces Another Abortion Lawsuit
The first sentence of local chiropractor Anna Nusslock’s lawsuit filed against Providence St. Joseph Hospital on April 1 cuts to the very heart of her allegations. “When Dr. Nusslock was experiencing a life-threatening medical emergency at [St. Joseph] Hospital, defendants callously, discriminatorily and illegally denied her care, causing harm that reverberates to this day,” the […]
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‘The Peril of this Moment’
Appearing at his first in-person town hall meeting since Donald Trump began his second term as president, North Coast Congressmember Jared Huffman alternately described himself as “concerned,” “alarmed,” “worried” and “terrified” at what the new administration is doing, painting it as a “corrupt” enterprise that’s “delighting” in the suffering it is causing while barreling the […]
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Drug Task Force Alleges Local Business Knowingly Sent Drug Trafficking Profits Out of the Country
The Humboldt County Drug Task Force announced March 19 that it had arrested Oscar Rocael Cruz-Ramos, 29, of Carlotta, after a four-month drug trafficking investigation that included the seizure of more than 2 pounds of cocaine and an array of firearms. The investigation, which began with a tip from a paid confidential informant reporting a […]
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Fortuna Police Chief Headed to Pacific Grove, Council Taps Eberhardt to Fill In
Fortuna Police Chief Casey Day is headed south, leaving the Friendly City after about five years on the job. Day, who has announced he will be leaving Fortuna after nearly five years on the job, has accepted an offer to become chief of the Pacific Grove Police Department. His last day in Fortuna will be […]
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Trickle Down
As the Trump administration continues to slash and burn parts of the federal government in its avowed mission to weed out “waste, fraud and abuse,” embers continue to land on the North Coast, scorching services. In recent weeks, news arrived that cuts at the United States Department of Agriculture will hamper nutrition assistance programs supporting […]
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Sunshine, If We Can Keep It
We in Humboldt County know better than most that sunshine isn’t a thing to be taken for granted. As Sunshine Week — an annual March celebration of the importance of government transparency — comes to a close, we want to add our voice to the chorus that has spent the week championing the principles of […]
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Diaz In, King Out as Fortuna Council Looks to Appoint New Member Amid Allegation of ‘Unethical’ Actions
It appears the Fortuna City Council’s process to appoint a new member this month was a zero sum game, resulting in the seating of Councilmember Juan Carlos Diaz and the ensuing abrupt resignation of Councilmember Jerry King a day later. Elected in November, King listed Diaz as his second choice to fill the vacancy at […]