The last batch of campaign finance report statements came in this week to the Humboldt County Elections Office, with the county’s four supervisorial candidates reporting raising a total of more than $108,000 in the filing period, which ran March 18 through May 17. That means an average of about $1,800 poured into local supes campaigns […]
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Why Your Vote Matters
How we did it In November, Humboldt State University journalism professor Marcy Burstiner was in Spain. She didn’t get her absentee ballot until a couple of weeks before the election. The last of three seats for the Northern Humboldt Unified School District was decided by 21 votes, but her vote wasn’t included. Her ballot was […]
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There’s No Place Like Humboldt: Fourth Coming
Humboldt’s 4th District is the county’s most compact in stature. Wrapping around much of Eureka, up to the Indianola Cutoff and across the bay to Samoa and Fairhaven, the district encompasses Humboldt County’s largest urban area, as well as the county seat. While the district shares similar challenges with the rest of the county, some […]
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There’s No Place Like Humboldt: Wide World of the 5th
Editors note: The Journal attempted to sit down with both candidates for the position of 5th District supervisor for this story. However, incumbent Ryan Sundberg did not respond to at least eight phone calls, three text messages and a pair of emails left for him over the better part of two weeks. We have attempted […]
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Answering the critics
There’s the candidate with a state bar complaint, another who’s only practiced law for six years, the one who may be too cozy with law enforcement for the taste of some voters and the man who some see on the wrong side of his 70th birthday. Together, they comprise the field of Humboldt County’s district […]
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Accountable
At 11:14 p.m. this past election night, Carolyn Crnich, the county clerk and registrar of voters, released her office’s “Election Night Final Report.” This report tallied the results from most — but not all — of the ballots cast, which was intriguing because one election in particular was a real nail-biter. In the race for […]
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Paul Gallegos Will Not Run for Re-election
In a curiously unheralded note, Paul Gallegos announced that he will not run for Humboldt County District Attorney in 2014. The Journal received a message a few minutes ago, emailed by Gallegos’ executive assistant, with no subject line and a pdf simply titled “press release thank you.” Read his. Arnie Klein is the only candidate so far […]
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Beyond the Scandal
Voter enthusiasm for school board elections is typically pretty low — unless your board happens to have a raging plagiarism scandal. Such is the case in the Northern Humboldt Union High School District, where board members have spent the past four months dealing with fallout from fellow trustee Dan Johnson’s plagiarized speech at Arcata High […]
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Building on Faith
Every day but Sunday, pickup trucks congregate outside Fieldbrook’s Volunteer Fire Department. Workers hang from the firehouse roof, demolish walls, climb scaffolding and mix concrete. It’s like a barn raising — a testament to what can be accomplished when a community works together. The project has been a long time coming. Firefighter and contractor Gene Callahan […]
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The Yurok Casino Is ON
The Yurok Tribe’s special election closed yesterday evening and the unofficial results are in: There will be a new casino in Klamath. Yurok Tribe members voted 61 percent to 39 percent in favor of a proposal by the tribal council to take $9.6 million of a $27.5 million settlement from the United States government and […]
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Election Results on Newsstands Now!
We went to parties; we talked to candidates; we clicked “refresh” on the county elections website about a hundred times; and we worked through the night to cram all of the late-breaking election results into this week’s print edition of the Journal, now on newstands. Track down a copy and you can read all about […]
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Local Students Vote For Obama
More than a thousand students from a dozen Humboldt County schools participated in a statewide student mock election, and the local voters of tomorrow preferred President Barack Obama to Republican challenger Mitt Romney by a landslide. Obama earned 58.1 percent of the vote (673 of 1,159) among participating students from local elementary, middle and high […]