North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman announced this morning that he “feels the Bern,” but is endorsing Hillary Clinton in her bid to become the country’s next president because he feels she has a better chance to beat the “terrible GOP candidates” and trigger a Democratic wave that wins back both the House and the Senate. […]
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UPDATED Big Money in the Harbor Commission Race
UPDATE: The most recent campaign finance information for 5th District incumbent Pat Higgins and details of his late filing have been added to this post. PREVIOUSLY: The final round of campaign finance reports for the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District commission candidates were due yesterday, and they show a fairly spendy push to […]
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Republican of Year, Former Reagan Advisor Hannaford Dies
Former consultant to Ronald Reagan and conservative heavyweight Peter Hannaford died in his sleep Saturday night, just hours after appearing at an event at Eureka Books to celebrate the publication of his newest book. He was 82. Perhaps best known locally for his stint as the opinion page editor for The Eureka Reporter, Hannaford served […]
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UPDATE: No Re-election Bid for Supe Lovelace or Harbor Comish Newman
Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace announced this afternoon that he will not seek re-election in 2016, giving credence to rumors that had been circulating for weeks. It appears he will finish out his term. Several weeks ago Lovelace told the Journal he hadn’t come to a decision yet, and that he hadn’t anticipated making one […]
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Don Clausen Dies
Ferndale native and former North Coast Congressman Don Clausen has died. He was 91. Clausen, a World War II veteran and a Republican who served from 1963 to 1982 in the U.S. House of Representatives, was described in a 2013 Santa Rosa Press Democrat story celebrating his 90th birthday as an ambidextrous baseball player (he […]
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Our Man and the Father of the Nuclear Navy
Tonight — very late tonight — on PBS, you can watch the premiere of a film about Admiral Hyman G. Rickover — you know, the fella who built the first nuclear submarine, first nuclear aircraft carrier and first commercial nuclear power plant. Why? Because you’ll learn about a complex, brilliant, controversial person considered instrumental in ending […]
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Huffman on Colbert!
UPDATE: The Huff’s Colbert segment indeed aired. Check it out right below. There’s a lot of talk about sharks. The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive Huffman shared a bit about what ended up on the cutting room floor on his Facebook page: Now that the Colbert show […]
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Pot Regulation Bill Goes up in Smoke
A bill seeking to create a regulatory framework for California’s multi-billion dollar medical marijuana industry died quietly in an Assembly committee today, the San Francisco Chronicle is reporting. Hailed by supporters as an attempt to bring order to the current void of state regulations and vilified by opponents as a brain child of narcotics officers […]
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UPDATED: Challenger Looms in Shadows of Eureka Council Race
The City of Eureka has determined that an unnamed would-be challenger to 1st Ward Councilwoman Marian Brady has failed to qualify for the ballot. In a press release, the city cited section 301 of the city charter as the reason the would-be candidate did not qualify. That section reads: “No person shall be eligible for […]
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UPDATE: Bass Wins 4th, Kerrigan Mum on Future
Virginia Bass has won the 4th District, according to post-election results released today by the Humboldt County Elections Office. The vote tally, which includes ballots turned into the elections office and polling places on Election Day, saw Bass take 2,822 of the vote (52.05 percent), compared to Kerrigan’s 2,587. The Southern Humboldt Unified School District bond measure […]
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UPDATED: Kerrigan’s Got a Slim, Slim Chance
UPDATE: The Elections Office is still slogging through the uncounted ballots, and has begun tallying provisional ballots. The number of outstanding ballots from the 4th District is likely to be released early next week. Following a bit more predictive arithmetic, Chris Kerrigan’s chances of collecting enough votes to overcome Virginia Bass for the 4th District […]
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Election Day!
After months of politicking, door knocking, lawn signs, glad handing and debating, Election Day is finally here. North Coast voters have some big choices before them today, including who will be the county’s next district attorney and who will represent the 4th and 5th districts on the county board of supervisors. There’s also a field […]