On May 2, President Trump released a budget blueprint for the next fiscal year that would take a chainsaw to social, environmental and education programs. Some of the sharpest cuts are directed at housing programs that are meant to serve the poor, housing insecure and unhoused. In California, millions are served by these funds and […]
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New Report says Cal State has $1.5 Billion Funding Gap, Suggests Tuition Hikes
The nation’s largest public four-year university is presently incapable of affording itself. A 70-page report nearly a year in the making by leaders of the California State University details the massive gulf between the money the system currently generates from tuition and receives in state support and the actual costs of educating its nearly 500,000 […]
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College Enrollment Decline Leads to Funding Changes for Underperforming Cal State Schools
The California State University system is putting campuses on notice: Enroll more students or lose money. It’s a stunning reversal of fortune for the 23 campuses of the country’s largest public university system, which have collectively lost 27,000 students in two years — part of a national wave of declining college enrollment. In fall 2020, […]
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Millions of Californians At Risk of Losing Health Coverage When Federal COVID Programs End
Millions of Californians could lose or transition into new health coverage as two federal programs that helped many keep or afford insurance are set to expire this year. Two to three million Californians could lose their Medi-Cal coverage, some as soon as this summer, after the federal government’s COVID-19 public health emergency ends, now scheduled […]
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Huffman Looks to Abolish U.S. Space Force
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman has introduced a bill that would abolish the “unnecessary” Space Force created by the Trump administration. “The long-standing neutrality of space has fostered a competitive, non-militarized age of exploration every nation and generation has valued since the first days of space travel. But since its creation under the former Trump […]
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Providence Eureka House Receives $4.3 million for Homeless Housing
Gov. Gavin Newsom has allocated $137 million in Homekey Awards, $4.3 million of which will go to Humboldt County, states an email sent by a spokesperson for the California Department of Housing and Community Development. Homekey is California’s $600 million program to purchase and rehabilitate housing – including hotels, motels, vacant apartment buildings and other properties […]
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EPA Announces $300,000 for Additional Humboldt Bay Cleanup, Reuse Effort
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted $300,000 in supplemental funding for ongoing redevelopment work on the Humboldt Bay. Humboldt County is one of 25 successful Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) grantees throughout the nation. According to the release the funds will be used to complete the cleanup of five sites at the historic railroad […]
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HSU’s Small Business Development Center Receives $7 Million to Expand Services
Humboldt State University’s Small Business Development Center received $7 million in federal emergency funding to expand services by hiring additional part-time and full-time staff members to handle the higher volume of calls and new clients, expanding the Finance Center, and launching an outreach campaign for business communities for which English is a second language. Read the […]
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Schools Face Prospect of Layoffs, Furloughs as State Budget Gets Slashed
California’s public schools, physically closed since mid-March and strapped for cash, are coming out of a frying pan and into a financial fire. The fire comes in the form of a $6.5 billion cut to schools’ main source of funding as well as other reductions in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget that, if enacted, would mean […]
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Legislature Passes $1.1 Billion COVID-19 Funding Bill, Leaves Capitol
In an urgent attempt to prepare California for a surge of critically ill coronavirus patients, state lawmakers Monday allocated up to $1 billion for an unprecedented ramp-up of hospital capacity, and then, in an extraordinary move, went home for a month — or perhaps longer — effectively shutting down business at the state Capitol as […]
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‘Encroachment:’ Inadequate Special Education Funding Leaves Local Districts Stretched Thin
A bill introduced earlier this year by North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman would make good on long-promised funding for special education. It also puts a spotlight on the issue in Humboldt County, where disproportionate rates of students need special education services and inadequate state and federal funding streams leave districts’ budgets stretched thin. Take Northern […]
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Frustrations Mount in Klamath-Trinity School District
It’s pouring rain in Hoopa. The roads are slick with ice and snow is about to fall as roughly half a dozen people shuffle into a small room for the Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District Board meeting in mid-February. The crowd is small but those attending carry the voices of their children, their community and, […]