Chris Lehman — the 35-year-old Arcata man who announced his candidacy for the State Senate with vigor last August — said in a press release today that he will abandon his campaign. Lehman launched out of the gate shortly after current Senator Noreen Evans announced she wouldn’t run for the 2nd District in 2014. He […]
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Top 10 Stories of 2013
Summing up the tumult and transformations of a year in Humboldt County with only 10 stories is impossible. Collected here are some — definitely not all — of the events that stayed with us. For more on these stories, go to northcoastjournal.com. The Fires The communities tucked along the rivers in our mountains know fire. […]
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Rate Hikes Hidden in California’s Glowing Obamacare Reviews
During a meeting last week, officials at Covered California, the state’s much-touted health insurance marketplace, made a pretty stark admission: Half of the approximately 1 million consumers whose health plans are being canceled will pay more under the Affordable Care Act. The numbers, it seems, have been overshadowed by other, more positive headlines. First, the […]
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Huffman Drops Some Knowledge on Climate-Change Deniers
Oh (cold) snap! Our U.S. Congressman, Jared Huffman, took to the House floor today to debunk the oft-mocked Fox News canard about climate change — that global warming can’t be true because look! Snow! The Huff’s counterpoint? “The fact that it’s snowing simply means that it’s snowing.” Mic-drop speech below:
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Mack Lovin’
The upcoming off-year election is kicking up a bit of dust in McKinleyville, that unincorporated burg of 15,000 where horses, its motto proclaims, have the right of way. Four people are trying to squeeze into three seats on the McKinleyville Community Services District — three incumbents and one retired professor who hope to have a […]
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Disputed Principles
When it comes to the much-debated guiding principles in Humboldt County’s General Plan Update process, it looks like the spirit of compromise was just a one-evening anomaly. Two weeks ago on Sept. 23 the Board of Supervisors held a rare evening session to tinker yet again with the language of the guiding principles, a list […]
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Wiyot Casino Haul In Jeopardy
Opponents to off-reservation casinos submitted enough signatures yesterday to qualify their initiative for the 2014 ballot — and if they succeed in their mission, our very own Wiyot Tribe will be out some significant winnings. “Keep Vegas-Style Casinos Out of Neighborhoods, a project of Stand Up for California,” wants specifically to stop a 200-room, 2,000-slot […]
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Bay Trail Dealt a Blow: Arcata’s TIGER Grant Application Not Funded
Bad news for those hoping to see a bike and pedestrian trail built between Arcata and Eureka: The City of Arcata today got shot down in its application for a $2.7 million grant from the federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. As this week’s cover story mentions, the city — and county — […]
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Dan Rather and Jared Huffman Tour Pot Grows in a Helicopter
In this week’s “Week in Weed” column, we chat with our U.S. Congressman, Rep. Jared Huffman, about his latest trip to Humboldt, during which he was briefed by Sheriff Mike Downey about marijuana issues and interviewed by the one and only Dan Rather. They also went for a helicopter ride. Pick up this week’s Journal […]
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Journal Interviews Chris Lehman, Your Fresh-Faced Candidate for State Senate
About an hour after announcing his run for State Senate, Chris Lehman, an Arcata family man and, at the tender age of 36, a Sacramento insider, sat down with the Journal for a croissant sandwich and coffee (in his own mug) at Ramone’s in Old Town. Bottom line? The guy’s prepped and ready to go. […]
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Listen: This American Life Talks Mendo’s Pot Program
If you missed the latest episode of This American Life, the fantastic, award-winning public radio program broadcast locally on KHSU, then you’ve yet to hear reporter Mary Cudddehe’s take on Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman and his ill-fated attempt to bring sanity to medical marijuana regulation. As you may recall, Allman came up with Mendocino […]
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Evolution of the Humboldt Brand
Did you read yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle? Yeah, me neither. But Journal Publisher Judy Hodgson did! And she directed us to this write-up on the local marketing campaign known as Humboldt Made. Here’s the key bit: As part of its effort to let the world know that there’s more to Humboldt than weed, the county’s economic development […]