This New Year’s Eve held an air of hope, sincerity and originality. The Arcata-Eureka area was packed with fabulous events. Arcane Artists impressed with over-the-top fiery displays of sensuality at the Dangerous Desires party at RampArt. The Eagle House’s Phoenix Rising Fire and Ice celebration delighted with high-end glamor and creature comforts. Septentrio’s Barrel Room was irresistibly cozy […]
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Humboldt County’s most impactful and memorable stories of 2022
2022 brought a sweemingly unending torrent of news in Humboldt County, so much so that sifting through it to find the year’s 10 biggest stories necessitated breaking conventional bounds and adding two bonus entries. It helps that items 11 and 12 on this list are resoundingly positive news — which we can safely say we […]
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Embattled Bongio Resigns PlanCo Post
Embattled longtime Humboldt County Planning Commissioner Alan Bongio, who was censured by the Board of Supervisors in September for comments made while chairing a meeting in August that were widely construed as racist and biased, has stepped down. First District Supervisor Rex Bohn, who appointed Bongio to the commission and said in September he would […]
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Top 10 Dick Moves of 2022
Compiling this year’s roll call of premeditated trash behavior wasn’t easy. Not because there weren’t enough vindictive choices, selfish decisions and playground bullies to go around, but because we have a surplus of attention-seeking dicks in our county constantly popping up and waving like inflatables outside a car dealership, seemingly campaigning to make the list. […]
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The Billionaire’s Press Dominates Censorship Beat
Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories — like Watergate before the 1972 election — that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense. Reflective of what a functioning democracy should be, censorship is defined as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by […]
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6.4 Earthquake Rattles Humboldt
Humboldt County was jolted awake at 2:34 a.m. on Dec. 20 by a magnitude-6.4 earthquake that knocked out power throughout much of the county, with shaking felt as far as Redding to the east and the Bay Area to the south, with the Eel River Valley bearing the brunt of the damage. “The city of […]
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The Hoopa Valley Versus the Digital Divide
This summer, the mountains moved in the Hoopa Valley. As a wildfire burned through trees and vegetation, a thunderstorm dropped 2 inches of rain in one day. The result was catastrophic. The rain, coupled with the unstable burned ground, caused the mountainsides along the Klamath, Trinity and Salmon rivers to collapse. “Our community was freaking […]
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Lease to Farm
To much fanfare, two foreign multinational corporations combined to spend more than $331 on winning bids for the chance to develop more than 207 square miles of ocean off Humboldt Bay into two floating offshore wind farms. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) two-day auction saw 43 companies vie for five leases — including […]
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By the Numbers:
As California emerges from its “peak” wildfire season, the state has managed to avoid its recent plague of catastrophic wildfires. So far in 2022, the fewest acres have burned since 2019. State Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said California had “a bit of luck” with weather this summer. Although enduring yet another drought year, much of the […]
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Harvard Announces Return of Native Hair Samples
Tucked in hundreds of envelopes is the hair cut from Native children as they arrived at boarding schools. Hidden away for nearly 100 years in the recesses of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, the collection of hair samples offers tangible evidence of the trauma of assimilation. According to the hygiene practices of the day, […]
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CSU’s Title IX Audit Comes to Humboldt
With Cal Poly Humboldt at what its local California Faculty Association chapter president called a “breaking point” over its handling of sexual harassment and assault complaints, a pair of attorneys are slated to come to campus next week as a part of the California State University’s audit of its Title IX system. The attorneys — […]
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Flash Fiction 2022
Every year, the Journal‘s 99-word Flash Fiction Contest gives us a peek into the imaginations of Humboldt writers. There are compact epics, comedies of error, mournful memories, budding (and withering) romances, existential dread, villains, heroes, crimes and spirits. Along with yours truly, our judges once again include retired children’s librarian JoAnn Bauer, poet and College […]