What are the two biggest challenges facing the Fifth District and what are your plans to address them? Affordable Housing: with completion of our Housing Element we are incentivizing construction of ADU’s (Accessory Dwelling Units), smaller homes, detached bedrooms and other policy changes to allow for more flexibility in meeting Humboldt’s housing needs. I will […]
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Summer of Fun 2022
Humboldt County has got an array of camps, classes, activities and adventures for the kids this summer. Kick back to peruse the options and don’t forget to contact organizers about their current COVID protocols. General & Multi Activities Camp Combo Option (ages 5-12). Thu., May 12. City of Arcata. The city of Arcata Recreation Division […]
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‘Undisputed’
An outside investigation has found Arcata City Councilmember Brett Watson sexually harassed a city employee and used his position to make undue demands for the individual’s time and attention over the course of more than two years. That included expecting her to respond to text messages about his personal life and feelings for her at […]
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Nonprofit Spurs ‘Exhaustive Search’ for Risling
This past weekend, 20 volunteers, two search dogs, boats, all-terrain vehicles and personnel from three law enforcement agencies conducted the largest search to date for Emmilee Risling, scouring miles of rugged, remote landscape along the Klamath River near Pecwan. The search came up empty, finding no signs of Risling, a mother of two who was […]
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The Race for City Hall
The race for a single seat on the Arcata City Council is making a special appearance on the June ballot with a crowded field of candidates vying to fill the opening left when former Vice Mayor Emily Goldstein stepped down earlier this year for family reasons. The winner-take-all election will see the top vote-getter of […]
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My Cousin Emmi
Editor’s note: According to the Sovereign Bodies Institute, there are 183 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in California, including 18 reported last year alone. One-hundred-and-seven of those women and girls are from Northern California. This is the experience of a single family member of one of the missing, illustrating the reverberating […]
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‘Long Overdue’
In an effort to reshape the way schools teach about Indigenous issues, two local student activists are pushing to get a new Native American-focused curriculum in schools throughout the region. In 2020, local Indigenous leaders and educators from Cal Poly Humboldt and local nonprofit Save California Salmon released a curriculum called the Advocacy and Water […]
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Here’s the CAP
The long-awaited draft Climate Action Plan (CAP) was released on April 21. Technically, this is a second draft: The first was released in 2021 but quickly rescinded for additional work. Unfortunately, this 2022 edition cannot be considered complete either, since most of the calculations are in the appendices, which are still being worked on. Nonetheless, […]
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‘Utmost Transparency’
In the hours and days after the Sacramento Bee published a series of leaked text messages shared between a unit of Eureka Police Department officers, the exchanges were quickly decried as “vile,” “abhorrent,” “egregious” and “profoundly upsetting” by officials and entities ranging from the Eureka Police Officers Association and the then chief of police to […]
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APD Chief: Justice for Josiah Hinges on Witnesses
April 15 marked another grim milestone for Charmaine Lawson: the fifth anniversary of the still unsolved killing of her son, David Josiah Lawson. At a vigil held on the Humboldt County Courthouse steps, Charmaine Lawson repeated her vow to never stop seeking justice for her son, as the Arcata Police Department once again issued a […]
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Parallel Crises
If you’ve tried to find housing in the last few years, you know what a difficult task it is. Humboldt County property managers say local rental vacancy rates run between 0 and 3 percent — extreme, even in California, which has a roughly 4-percent vacancy rate statewide. Buying a home in Humboldt is also cost-prohibitive […]
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Coastal Commission Moves Offshore Wind Forward
The California Coastal Commission voted unanimously April 7 to conditionally concur with a federal determination that allowing energy companies and organizations to study a proposed offshore wind farm area on the Humboldt County coast is consistent with the state’s Coastal Management Program. The highly technical and bureaucratic vote clears the way for companies interested in […]