3rd UDPATE: The final election night report is up and shows incumbent Estelle Fennell cementing her landslide re-election bid, having won 77 percent of the vote to challenger Glen “Bud” Rogers’ 22 percent. While there are still votes to be tallied, the final election night count has Fennell finishing with 3,503 of the 4,563 votes […]
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3rd UPDATE: Mike Wilson Takes 3rd District Race in Landslide
3rd UPDATE: With 100 percent of Humboldt County precincts reporting, the final election night tally has Harbor Commissioner Mike Wilson finishing with 82 percent of the vote to become the county’s next 3rd District supervisor. While there are still votes to be counted, Wilson finishes the night with 5,076 of the 6,204 ballots cast in […]
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2nd UPDATE: Clinton Celebrates, Eureka Style, While Sanders Holds Strong in Humboldt
Whether you’re feeling the Bern, heading for the Hill or dying to see Trump make Humboldt great again, we realize there’s a lot of interest in the outcome of this presidential primary. And, we figure, you want to see how your neighbors feel about the whole thing. With that in mind, we’ll update this post […]
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Humboldt’s 23 Percent Voter Turnout Not as Dismal as it Sounds
It’s official. The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors certified the county’s election results this morning, making official what’s long been known: Harbor District incumbents Pat Higgins and Greg Dale have each won four more years on the board. In the final tally, 23.28 percent — 13,897 — of Humboldt’s registered voters cast ballots in the […]
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Final Election Tally: Higgins Hangs On
With the final votes tallied, it looks like Patrick Higgins will retain his seat on the Humboldt County Harbor, Recreation and Conservation Commission. The Humboldt County Elections Office released its post-election update report this afternoon, and it shows that Higgins has built on his 12-vote Election Night lead, and now sits 81 votes ahead of […]
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As the 5th District Twists in the Wind, A Look at Rotwein’s Chances
It looks like 5th Division Harbor candidates Patrick Higgins and Susan Rotwein are going to spend some time twisting in the wind. When the smoke cleared, the final Election Night report had 12 votes separating the candidates, with Higgins, the incumbent, having stormed back from an early, vote-by-mail-ballot-driven deficit. Today, the elections office reports that […]
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UPDATED: Dale Wins 2nd District Harbor Race
SECOND UPDATE: The final election night report is in, and the tally confirms Greg Dale’s re-election. With 3,080 votes cast, and all of the 2nd District’s 23 precincts reporting, Dale took nearly 64 percent of the vote to challenger Nick Angeloff’s 35 percent. Celebrating at his Fortuna home with a Manhattan, Dale was pleased with […]
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UPDATED: Higgins Pulls Ahead in the 5th
2nd UPDATE: With the final Election Night report in, we have a nail biter in the race for the 5th Division Harbor District Seat. After trailing all night, incumbent Commissioner Pat Higgins has taken a 12-vote lead over challenger Susan Rotwein with 100 percent of precincts reporting. With 3,666 votes counted in the race thus […]
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It’s Not Too Late to Rock the Vote
Anecdotal evidence is strongly hinting that today’s voter turnout in Humboldt County is dismally low, not that that’s a huge surprise with most voters facing sparse ballots and a pair of Harbor District races headlining the whole affair. The good news is that means your ballot has the potential to pull some real weight, and […]
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UPDATED: Bergel Takes Lead in Ward 3 Race; City on Cusp of History
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Elections Office has released its post-election update, which can be found here. The notables, other than Bergel’s apparent come-from-behind victory, are the passage of Eureka City Schools’ bond measure and the narrow failure of that of Jacoby Creek School District. PREVIOUSLY: It looks like Eureka’s going to seat what’s believed to […]
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Keep Biting Those Nails
The Humboldt County Elections Office is zeroing in final election tallies, and has inched closer to determining the final number of ballots outstanding in the nail-biter of a race for Eureka’s Ward 3 city council seat. When the dust settled from Election Day, incumbent Mike Newman led challenger Kim Bergel by 104 votes, having taken […]
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Minimum Wage Rising Everywhere But Eureka
Eureka voters’ attempt to raise the minimum wage for the city’s largest employers failed decidedly Tuesday, but that’s one small defeat in a rising minimum wage movement. Sixty-two percent of voting Eurekans cast ballots against the Fair Wage Act — the only time nationally a minimum wage measure has failed, apparently — and the overwhelming […]