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 […]
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‘Our Rightful Place’
On April 7, the Yurok Tribe reopened Chah-pekw O’ Ket’-toh (Stone Lagoon) Visitor Center in a historic ribbon-cutting ceremony, the event marking an unprecedented agreement between California State Parks, Parks California, Redwood National Park and the Yurok Tribe. For the first time in state history, a tribe has been put in charge of operating a […]
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City of Eureka’s Response to Request for the EPD Text Message Investigative Report
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A Symbolic Censure
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to censure Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez during a special April 4 meeting after an outside investigation sustained findings that she engaged in “retaliatory, harassing and/or bullying behavior,” and made financial decisions that “resulted in increased staff workload and financial losses to the county.” The board’s 5-0 vote […]
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‘Benefit Cliff’
Mary’s story is like so many: She entered 2020 with high hopes for the new year only to see them shattered three months in. A single mother of two teens, she’d just been offered a full-time job but, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, bringing lockdowns and social distancing, her employer rescinded the offer. Like many […]
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The ‘Friendly Officer’
William Dobberstein, Fortuna’s recently retired police chief, who was widely liked and known as a “friendly officer,” compassionate and willing to listen, through his 25-year career with the Fortuna Police Department, was found dead in his home Saturday. He was 53. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said his department is investigating Dobberstein’s death in his […]
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‘Embedded in the Culture’
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office internal affairs investigation that led to the firing of Sgt. Jason Daniels as he faced sexual assault allegations in 2014 was incomplete and unfair, according to the arbitrator’s ruling that overturned Daniels’ firing and reinstated his employment. The Journal reported last year (“Policing our Own,” June 10, 2021) that Daniels […]
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‘Good People’
Local business owners and community members gathered in Eureka on a recent Friday to give an old truck new life and an Army veteran a hand up while celebrating the legacy of an Arcata-born veteran. In an effort called “Project Jumpstart,” Quality Body Works partnered with other Humboldt County businesses to restore a donated vehicle […]
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Where’s the CAP?
If an irresistible force meets an immovable object, one possible outcome is a stalled Climate Action Plan. Caught between the realities of an ever-warming climate and a culture that is embedded in fossil fuels, city, state and county planners have been trying for years to come up with some acceptable and realistic ways of staving […]
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The Foilies 2022
Each year during Sunshine Week, The Foilies serve up tongue-in-cheek “awards” for government agencies and assorted institutions that stand in the way of access to information. The Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock combine forces to collect horror stories about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and state-level public records requests from journalists and transparency advocates across […]
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County Races Set for June Election
Ten county offices are up for election in what’s shaping up to be a dynamic, feisty campaign season leading into the June primary. Seemingly against all odds and norms, the race to lead the county’s Auditor-Controller’s Office appears likely to garner the most attention (more on that later), but Humboldt County will also see contested […]