The McKinleyville Union School District Board of Trustees voted earlier this month to move forward with consolidating the district’s three campuses into two in the face of declining enrollment and budget shortfalls, but several decisions remain on the table. Currently, students in transitional kindergarten through second grade attend Dow’s Prairie Elementary, third through fifth grade […]
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The 2024 Tipping Point
It’s no secret that California’s recreational cannabis market has limped out of the gates. Eighteen months into this grand legalization experiment in the world’s fifth largest economy, sales and tax revenue have lagged behind projections and much of the state has prohibited retail sales. Meanwhile, consumers complain of high prices and those within the industry […]
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Huff to USPS: ‘Stop this Reckless Consolidation’
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman joined a bipartisan trio of colleagues today in introducing legislation that would halt U.S. Postal Service plans to close and consolidate mail processing facilities across the country, including one in Eureka. Locals have long lamented USPS’s plan — which is currently on hold — to shutter Eureka’s processing facility and […]
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UPDATED: Supes Consider Post-Consolidation Pay Bump for Sheriff
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, after less than 15 minutes of discussion, voted unanimously to approve the pay increase requested for Sheriff Mike Downey to compensate him for the extra duties he’s taking on in the wake of his office consolidating that of the coroner-public administrator. Each member of the board stressed before […]
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Postal Consolidation Back on the Table
Eureka’s mail processing center is once again on the chopping block. It seems the United States Postal Service has once again put forward a proposal to consolidate Eureka’s processing facility into one in Medford, Oregon, which would cause a loss of local jobs and delay incoming and outgoing mail service for the North Coast. North […]