If the Northern California horse racing industry was one of the thoroughbreds on which it depends, it’s come up lame and may not reach the finish line. And if you extend the metaphor to the Humboldt County Fair Association, it would be the jockey, frantically trying to decide whether to stay in the saddle, hoping […]
Thadeus Greenson
Thadeus Greenson is the news editor of the North Coast Journal.
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In the Interest of Full Disclosure
I trend a bit old school in my views of media ethics and reporting. I’m registered to vote without party preference, and I’ve never once put a campaign sign in my yard or donated to a candidate or ballot measure. Generally, I believe anything that so much as creates the appearance of a conflict of […]
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Fortuna: Councilmember Mobley Resigns Amid FBI Investigation
UPDATE: The Fortuna City Council voted unanimously Feb. 3 to solicit applications for the seat recently vacated by Councilmember Kris Mobley, who resigned last week, and appoint her replacement. Mobley informed the city she would be resigning her post, effective immediately, in an email last week and the city promptly issued a press release announcing […]
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Healthcare Leaders Talk Recruitment, Retention in Panel Discussion
In the midst of somewhat rambling closing comments at a recent panel discussion on healthcare in Humboldt, Mad River Community Hospital CEO Doug Shaw told a story. Arcata’s first hospital, he said, was built in 1911, though it wasn’t so much a hospital, as a two-story home with a surgical suite on the second floor […]
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Centro del Pueblo Announces Immigration Hotline
Centro del Pueblo has launched an “ICE-Watch/Migra-Watch” hotline for local community members to report immigration enforcement activity. The Arcata-based nonprofit sent out an email this morning announcing it had started the hotline — (707) 200-8091 — as a part of its Rapid Response Network, which seeks to empower community members to “observe and provide vital […]
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Sanctuary in the Storm
A palpable fear was already spreading in some local communities before President Donald J. Trump took the oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20 and decried what he called an “invasion” of migrants into the United States, quickly following up his inaugural address by signing a flurry of executive orders to reshape […]
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Supes Talk Healthcare Forum, Pellet Plant Draft EIR
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors got a preview this morning of the findings of Fourth District Supervisor Natalie Arroyo’s listening tour on healthcare provider recruitment and retention, which will be the focus of a community forum later this month. Arroyo, who said she undertook the effort because healthcare delivery is a top constituent concern […]
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Assembly to Again Take Up Bill Giving Tribes State Police Powers
After twice introducing bills that would allow tribal police departments a path to certification by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training — the first dying in committee before the second was vetoed by the governor last year — Ramos recently introduced Assembly Bill 31, hoping it will overcome the final hurdle this […]
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‘On the Events of April’
Cal Poly Humboldt is beginning a series “of community conversations and reflections on the events of April,” the university announced in a schoolwide memo earlier this month. The “events” in question were occupation of Siemens Hall in an effort to bring awareness to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza resulting from Israel’s offensive targeting Hamas, and […]
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The Battle Over Bear River
Josh Bates clearly recalls the exact moment he realized his professional life was spiraling out of control through no fault of his own. A graduate of the College of the Redwoods Police Academy, Bates says it was early March of 2022 and things were going pretty well. He’d recently resigned his post as an officer […]
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‘Exceptional Work’ Allowed Eligible Humboldt Jail Inmates to Cast Ballots
While a CalMatters report last year found that many of the 73,000 or so California residents held in county jails who are eligible to vote face barriers in casting ballots, local officials say that wasn’t the case in Humboldt County in November. When addressing the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors in advance of its certification […]
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St. Joseph Hospital Seeks Dismissal of Abortion Lawsuit, Cites Religious Freedom
Providence St. Joseph Hospital has filed a motion asking a Humboldt County Superior Court judge to dismiss the bulk of the lawsuit brought against by the California Attorney General’s Office alleging it illegally denied abortion services to a local woman, while asking that the rest of the suit be stayed pending a state investigation. The […]