As you’ll read in this week’s cover story, Last Chance Grade — the failing 3-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 101 just south of Crescent City — sits on what’s called a broken formation. You have fragmented shale, siltstone and thick bedded sandstone that are being thrust upward as two tectonic plates collide hundreds of miles […]
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A Newsroom Without Women
I spent #ADayWithoutAWoman at work. Not because I don’t support the cause; I do. But, like many women, striking is not an option at my job. So instead, I’d like to use the platform I have to talk a minute about the women with whom I work and the women who’ve made that work possible. […]
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Yes, Another Pot Story
I can hear you groaning. Yes, not only is it another local media story devoted to cannabis but it’s virtually an entire issue on the subject. I get it. You’re tired of talking about it. We all are. But whether you smoke shatter on the hour or have never touched a joint, you need to […]
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Out of Order
Let’s get one thing out of the way: I hope David Marcus succeeds. I want him to take the helm of what is already a strong office and make it better, ensuring that Humboldt County’s indigent get the constitutional protections they — and every member of our society — deserve. I hope he finds new […]
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Roll the Tapes. All of Them.
It really shouldn’t be this hard. This week’s cover story examining the prosecution of Adam Laird is the culmination of years of work. But that’s not to say the story took particularly long to write or even to research. No, instead, the more than two years of work invested in this story were spent fighting […]
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Dear Shlomo,
I realize you might be a feeling a bit picked on at the moment, seeing our second cover story about your Humboldt County holdings in the last three months. In fact, over the past 16 or so months, we’ve written nearly 20,000 words detailing your doings in Humboldt County. That’s a lot of ink. But […]
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Escalation
Forty-four. The number itself is so staggering that we decided to use it as the headline for this week’s cover story about Eureka’s Dec. 6 officer-involved shooting. In our collective memories here at the Journal, never can we recall a local incident when officers fired so many bullets, much less in a situation where they […]
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Encore
This weekend the story about Vice President-elect Mike Pence getting booed by the audience and lectured by the cast at Hamilton, as well as President-elect Trump’s tweet-fit over it, dominated the news. Many warned that those tweets were calculated to distract from Trump’s $25 million fraud settlement over his so-called university, a first for an […]
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Let’s Get to Work
Over the last week, many have commented that they no longer recognize America or they find themselves waking up in a different country. It’s a sentiment that was expressed in these pages last week, but it’s also one that we find troubling. Plainly, this isn’t a different America; it’s just one that many among us […]
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Who’s Driving the Bus, Eureka?
The city of Eureka just made a very big decision, one that could change the law in California and ultimately cost city taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. So who made this call? Was it the city attorney? The city manager? The elected members of city council? We don’t know and that’s a problem, especially […]
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You and Me and the Keys
The first step is admitting we have a problem. But we can’t seem to get past the anger. Humboldt’s headlines last week were dominated by news of Marcia Kitchen, the 39-year-old Fortuna woman accused of hitting and killing two 14-year-old girls, one of them her own daughter, in an alleged July DUI crash. Kitchen has […]
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A Small Win for Transparency
The Journal got somewhat of a win last week, when an appellate court upheld a Humboldt County judge’s order to release a Eureka police video depicting the arrest of a 14-year-old boy in 2012. To be clear, the court’s published opinion is a big deal, as it now creates case law that unambiguously says these […]