Cover Story
Crash Course
Happy Halloween, Humboldt. Last year we introduced you to the sweetly spooky work of comic artist Liz Valasco on our cover (“The Seeker,” Oct. 30, 2025). After seeing what she and the Journal’s Setlist columnist Collin Yeo cooked up together, how could we resist a second grab from the candy bucket? “Crash Course” also appears…
Bohn Investigation
For the second time in a year, Supervisor Rex Bohn has outed himself as being the subject of a county investigation involving his conduct with employees, following much of the same approach to address the issue. Most recently, the First District representative took to social media Oct. 22, sharing a picture of an email sent…
5 Tax Measures are on the California Ballot. Here’s How to Make Sense of Them All.
This story was originally published by CalMatters. California voters are being asked whether they want to keep taxing the incomes of the rich. And they’ll be asked whether to start taxing the accumulated wealth of the even richer. Wait, there’s more. They’ll also get to weigh in on whether we should ban wealth taxes altogether,…
Statewide Strike
Bundles of purple tinsel, purple inflatable wands and purple signs rose into the air as cars passed by a large group of Service Employees International Union members gathered on Fifth Street in Eureka last week. Commercial trucks responded with booming horns and smaller cars let out an enthusiastic series of honks, inciting more cheering from…
The Candyman Can
As is often the case during this time of year, I was watching a horror film recently — nothing special, a French rip-off of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula movie — when I found myself so bored by the stupidity of the whole thing that I slipped into a sort of dream state. I think…
An Ugly Turn at Smalls Fusion Comfort
Editor’s note: This story includes bigoted and misogynistic quotations. The story spread quickly online and by word of mouth on Oct. 20, after a member of the Humboldt Foodies Facebook group posted screenshots from Smalls Fusion Comfort restaurant owner Scott Boone’s personal page, one dated March 19, reading, “This is what you fucktards on the…
Fitness for Birders
You might think of birding as a pursuit of pleasurable relaxation, a gentle, spiritual connection with nature that reduces stress and boosts feel-good hormones. It’s not. It’s a physically and emotionally challenging activity that demands strength, endurance, flexibility and mental toughness. Want to get the most out of your birding experience? Practice the following exercises…
Tips for Recent Empty-Nesters
Greetings Villagers, I’m sure this missive must come as a surprise. No doubt you have heard the distant wails echoing from my cliffside castle laboratory and wondered if I, Professor Ballantine, was preparing to unleash another ungodly experiment upon the populace. Or perhaps you thought — or hoped — that some misfortune had befallen me…
Longitude and the Prime Meridian, Part 2
“It might be expected that plumb lines, set up in various locations, if extended downward, would all pass through a single point, the center of Earth. But this is not the case.” — Why the Greenwich Meridian Moved, by Stephen Malys et. al., 2015 Both John Harrison’s clocks and lunar distance tables assumed that the…
Transparency vs. the Truth
YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING. Although celebrity and notoriety have, in this age of commingled and corrupted meaning where interpretation is truth, become functionally one and the same, they remain distinct, even antithetical. Elizabeth Holmes, the perceived wunderkind founder of Theranos now serving a lengthy term in federal prison for defrauding investors and the primary subject…
Community Connection
Editor: Please join us for a Centro del Pueblo fund raising event on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m. at the Minor Theatre. We are collaborating with Shine a Light on Palestine to show the documentary, Traces of Home. We are delighted to share this film with our Latinx community members and supportive neighbors, friends and…
‘How Big is Your Tribe?’
Editor: It may be too late to respond to the opinion piece “The Good Ones” (Oct. 8, 2026), but sometimes with hot button issues it’s better to think it through thoroughly, so here goes: Men could be more chivalrous. It’s good for men to talk about this among ourselves beforehand, so we’re not just running…
F all
The first one fellWhen we couldn’t sleepAnd you felt called uponTo shake a limbAnd see what would happen The second one fell when I asked for timeYou caught it despite it falling fastAnd waited an eternal minuteBefore picking it apart in front of me The third one didn’t fallYou plucked it yourselfYou tried putting it…
