Humboldt Bay may soon be home to a few new — and very large — ships. The possibility floated into public view toward the end of the March 20 meeting of the Humboldt Bay Development Association Board of Directors when Vice Chair Leroy Zerlang updated his colleagues on his efforts to get the U.S. Maritime […]
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The Foilies 2024
We’re taught in school about checks and balances between the various branches of government, but those lessons tend to leave out the role that civilians play in holding officials accountable. We’re not just talking about the ballot box, but the everyday power we all have to demand government agencies make their records and data available […]
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Extra, Extra!
The Humboldt County Historical Society will be displaying two decades’ worth of editions of the Times-Standard at the Timber Heritage Association’s shops in Samoa on each of the next three Saturdays, hoping for the public’s help curating them into an exhibition and giving away duplicate copies. Steve Lazar, past president of the Humboldt County Historical […]
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Coastal Commission to Take Up Schneider Permit Violations, Potential Penalties
A local developer’s well-publicized permit woes — as well as the path to resolving them — now officially rest in the jurisdiction of the California Coastal Commission. After hearing a staff report that spanned less than 3 minutes, the commission upheld staff’s recommendation to find the appeal of the Humboldt County Planning Commission’s permit modifications […]
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After A
After spending some 18 months on edge, the local cannabis cultivation industry exhaled on Election Night, as Humboldt County voters overwhelmingly rejected Measure A, a ballot initiative that sought to overhaul local cultivation regulations and farms warned could have catastrophic consequences. Sitting down with the Journal about a week after the election, and just a […]
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Court Challenge
In November, the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office began employing what’s known as a “blanket disqualification” in all felony cases slated to be heard by Judge Kelly Neel, meaning the proceedings have to be reassigned to another courtroom. What prompted the legal maneuver nearly six years after Neel was appointed to the Superior Court bench […]
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Without a Paper Trail
Days before retiring from his post at the helm of Eureka City Schools in December, Superintendent Fred Van Vleck secured what could objectively be seen as a legacy-defining transaction — a deal in which the district expects to unload a long-blighted, vacant property on Allard Avenue in exchange for $5.35 million and a small residential […]
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Coastal Commission to Take up Schneider Appeal
California Coastal Commission staff is recommending the commission take over jurisdiction of the permitting fiasco that enveloped local developer Travis Schneider’s family dream mansion overlooking the Fay Slough Wildlife Area. The commission is slated to decide whether “substantial issues” exist in an appeal of a Coastal Development Permit issued by the Humboldt County Planning Commission […]
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‘It Has to Change’
When Denise Massey’s daughter was 6 years old, she put the girl, who has Down Syndrome, on a van every morning for speech therapy in El Centro: 100 miles round trip, sometimes braving 120-degree heat, monsoons and severe dust storms known in the desert as haboobs. Thirteen years later she’s still making that daily trek, […]
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‘The Ends of Justice’
When appellate attorney Richard Braucher agreed to take on Steven Dinsmore’s case, he says two things were immediately clear to him: It was the right thing to do and he would lose. Reading through a transcript of Dinsmore’s May 20, 2022, re-sentencing hearing, Braucher says he was struck first by how Dinsmore’s sincerity jumped off […]
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‘A Really Cool Asset’
When McKinleyville Community Services District Board President Scott Binder was a kid and he had some free time, he’d take his BMX bicycle to the timberland east of town, where he’d spend hours traversing the dirt roads and jumping over small water breaks. Decades later, the district took a monumental step forward in its years-long […]
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Winners of the 2024 NCJ Pet Photo Contest
We may or may not be scrolling past your pictures from Maui because it feels like everyone but us is on vacation all the time. We might toss a quick like on that selfie or marsh sunset, but we are flipping past the mystery rash you’re crowdsourcing home remedies for. We’re looking for one thing […]