California is either about to right decades of inequality between rich and poor defendants by eliminating cash bail, or it’s about to turn over its justice system to robots. The question of what to do about the system that decides whether people should be free while awaiting trial will be determined by Proposition 25. The […]
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The Yurok Tribe Receives $2.2 million Grant for Homelessness
The Yurok Tribe received a $2.2 million grant from California’s Homekey Program to address homelessness, the same grant St. Joseph Health received for its Providence Eureka housing project. According to a release, the Yurok Indian Housing Authority will purchase a motel in Eureka for permanent housing for 30 people who are experiencing or are at […]
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Adults, Kids Asked to Play By the Rules as Playgrounds Reopen
Public playgrounds across the state are being allowed to reopen but with adults and children alike needing to use COVID-19 safety practices under guidelines released by the state. Those include anyone 2 or older wearing a mask and keeping a socially-responsible 6 feet of distance from folks who are from other households as well as […]
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Behind the ‘Wild West’ of School Reopenings
An academic year in which public education will intersect with public health has created back-to-school shopping lists unlike any other for California’s schools as they attempt to transition toward in-person instruction once they have the state’s blessing. Bakersfield’s Panama-Buena Vista Union School District plans to hire a manager to handle contact tracing for a system […]
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COVID-19 Tips for Housing Fire Evacuees
County Health Officer Teresa Frankovich is offering tips to local residents who may be taking in friends and family evacuating from the state’s devastating wildfires to reduce the risk of transmitting COVID-19. “This situation is enormously challenging, and our hearts go out to everyone across the state who is impacted by wildfires,” she said in […]
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Could Trump ‘Sabotage’ California’s All-Mail Election?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE For months President Donald Trump has been reluctant to extend a lifeline to the financially infirm Postal Service, a reluctance his critics have said is motivated by his loathing of vote-by-mail. On Thursday, Trump made that subtext … text. Speaking about the ongoing COVID relief negotiations on […]
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Exclusive: More Than 1,600 Californians Evicted During Pandemic
Like any parent, Jamie Burson didn’t want her 11-year-old son to discover how frightened she really was about the novel coronavirus. But it’s hard to mask anxiety when you’re living and sleeping together in the same car. After Burson was evicted from her two bedroom apartment in Vacaville the second week of April, she heeded […]
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Modernization of the DMV Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Since the pandemic hit the nation in March, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has upgraded its services to meet the needs of today’s new normal of physical distancing and sheltering in place. According to a release, since March, the DMV has made it easier to make an online account, expanded DMV Express throughout California, […]
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Where to Get Financial Help During Coronavirus in California — and Is It Enough?
From hotel rooms for people who are homeless to restaurant meals for seniors isolating for their lives, California has rapidly expanded its safety net in an attempt to catch millions of residents impacted by the coronavirus and its economic aftershocks. In daily press conferences during the pandemic’s first months, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new “first-in-the-nation” […]
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More Photos from the Black Lives Matter, George Floyd Protest in Eureka
Hundreds of Humboldt County residents marched through downtown Eureka to protest the fatal arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Black Lives Matter and George Floyd Protest Happening in Eureka (VIDEO)
Humboldt County residents are protesting the death of George Floyd in Eureka. Protesters started marching at the Humboldt County Courthouse and made its way to Highway 101 on V and Fifth Street. Demonstrators gathered outside the Eureka courthouse on May 30th at around 3:00 p.m. to protest the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police […]
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California Could Reopen Schools in July, Newsom Says
California could reopen for an earlier school year, perhaps as soon as late July, to make up for lost learning time, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today in laying out a course for easing his shelter-in-place order. Pointing to the state’s stable hospitalization data, the governor delivered hopeful news for throngs of parents struggling with distance […]