In the week after Cal Poly Humboldt brought a large police force to campus to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the area around Siemens Hall, arresting 32 people, including a professor and 13 students, the campus has remained closed, with discord seemingly growing between faculty and administration. A group of several dozen protesters entered Siemens Hall […]
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‘On Siemens Hall Hill’
When a group of several dozen protesters entered Siemens Hall on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus shortly before 5 p.m. on April 22, they say they had no intention of grinding the university’s operations to a halt. Standing on the campus quad, which was barricaded on all sides with makeshift blockades crafted out of segments […]
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Officials Weigh in on SCOTUS Case’s Local Implications
As the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could shift the legal landscape underpinning how governments can treat homeless residents, local officials watched with mixed emotions and hopes. Since 2018, a decision known as Martin v. Boise out of the U.S. Court of Appeals’ Ninth Circuit determining that governments cannot […]
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Arcata Lowers Earth Flag as Initiative Proponents Promise Appeal
Proponents of a successful Arcata ballot initiative to fly the Earth flag atop the city’s flagpoles say they plan to appeal a judge’s ruling that it was unlawful for the city to raise the flag above that of the United States. The Arcata City Council voted unanimously last week, with one member absent, to adhere […]
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Supreme Court Weighs Upending Homeless Protections
In a case that could drastically alter how cities in California and beyond deal with homeless encampments, U.S. Supreme Court justices on April 22 weighed whether to allow broader punishment for people camping in public spaces. “Laws like ours, they really do serve an essential purpose,” said Theane Evangelis, arguing on behalf of the city […]
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Seeking Salvation
Patrick Harvey, speaking to the Journal from the California Medical Facility, a state prison in Stockton, falls silent for a moment, considering the question about hope. Harvey, who has served 25 years of a 25-to-life sentence, reportedly the first under California’s three-strikes law handed down in Humboldt County, has a tendency to speak quickly over […]
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‘Very Much Remembered’
In a room packed with Humboldt community members, Charmaine Lawson, dressed in all black aside from red text on her shirt reading “Justice for Josiah,” turned to place her hand close to the image of David Josiah Lawson. After a few moments of silence, she cut the rainbow ribbon in front of the mural honoring […]
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Turning the Titanic
In May of 1911, the Titanic became the biggest object ever moved by humans at the time, weighing 23,587 metric tons. We start there to put this next number into some perspective: Since plastic was introduced in the 1950s, more than 8.3 billion metric tons of it have been produced across the globe, according to […]
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Dust to Dust
Arcata resident Michael Furniss traces his aspiration for a natural burial back to a rainy afternoon four decades ago when he was a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley studying soil science and forestry. Watching swirls of water from the downpour absorb into the ground while sitting near a creek on campus, […]
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Records Document Another ECS Brown Act Violation on Jacobs Deal
Eureka City Schools appears to have violated more open meeting and public records laws in its handling of the former Jacobs middle school property exchange than previously known, the Journal has learned via a new batch of public records disclosed in response to the paper’s request. While the Journal already reported that the district erred in not listing on its meeting […]
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‘Our Food is Our Medicine’
Marion Frye is cutting sea anemones, or sa’roh, gelatinous looking fists pulled from rocks at low tide. She’s let them rest a couple days in water so they won’t sting her hands. “Yeah, ‘horse’s ass,’” she says with a chuckle, explaining the nickname of the creatures whose flowery tendrils retract when touched. She cuts into […]
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Military Transport Ships Eyeing Port in Humboldt Bay
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 […]