Just in time for the weekend comes some lazy-by-river reading (in case that spring-like weather returns): the California Department of Fish and Game’s new proposed regulations for suction dredging! Well, if you’re an avid goldbug who’s getting a little tired of the panning life, who misses the motorized dredge days, you might indeed find this […]
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Neighhhhhh, they say
About 80 equestrian trail advocates “flash mobbed at Clam Beach today,” reports Uri Driscoll. They parked about 35 horse trailers alongside the frontage road between U.S. 101 and Clam Beach/Little River State Beach, and then assembled on foot in front of them with sign boards and a petition. They demanded that Redwood State Park listen […]
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Supervisor Mark Lovelace – running for re-election
Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace gathered supporters on the Arcata Plaza Thursday afternoon to announce that he’s running for re-election (see text of speech below), then discussed challenges ahead, among them holding onto the county’s tax money, rural school busing, marijuana policy and smart meters. The last 3 years have been very busy. I’ve […]
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State Absconds With $15M in Local Transportation Funds
At last week’s meeting of the Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG), Caltrans Project Manager Kim Floyd shocked some big-time local decision-makers. She told the assembled League of Extraordinary Officials that, back in June, the state repossessed roughly $15 million in transportation funds that had been slated for safety and maintenance work along the Hwy. […]
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‘Federal Terror Campaign’ Hits Mendocino Collective
Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency today raided Mendocino County medical marijuana collective Northstone Organics, whose executive director, Matt Cohen, is featured in this week’s Journal cover story by Zach St. George. Cohen’s collective was operating under a permit issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Dept., and by all indications it was following the […]
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The Marijuana Shuffle [Updated]
[Update #2, Oct. 6, 4:45 p.m.] All bets are off officially off — as is a notable promise from President Obama. Or so it appears, anyway. Yesterday the Arcata City Council voted to place a moratorium on issuing medical marijuana dispensary permits. Maybe their spidey sense was tingling: According to the Associated Press, federal prosecutors have […]
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List of Items Confiscated at County Courthouse
Here’s a partial list of items confiscated and/or rejected by Humboldt County Courthouse security over the past year six months: Three guns 2,024 knives 294 pairs of scissors 202 razor blades 824 “pointed devices”* 31 “sharp objects”* 94 knitting needles 54 screwdrivers 53 corkscrews 96 metal forks 52 bullets 21 toy/replica guns 127 chains (12 […]
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Redistricting Maps Approved: Thompson Out
The above map shows new congressional district boundaries, approved earlier today by the 14-person Citizen Redistricting Commission. The nonpartisan commission also redrew the borders for state senate, assembly and Board of Equalization districts (see the full maps here), but it’s the Congressional map that’s most newsworthy to us here on the North Coast. Why? Because, as […]
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County Will Hop To It On Rezone
We went to press before Humboldt County’s Community Development Services Director Kirk Girard came out of closed-door negotiations on Tuesday to announce a settlement with Housing For All, the housing-advocacy outfit that intervened in a lawsuit filed by Humboldt Sunshine. In the settlement, the county agrees to set a firm deadline to finish its plan […]
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Citizen Egger
Tonight at 6 p.m. Fortuna resident Janelle Egger will once again go before the Fortuna City Council to ask them, once again, what the heck they’re doing spending money on a new water reservoir at Stewart Street when they’ve got a perfectly good, underused one on Vancil. She says. She’s gently, forcefully, legally and otherwise […]
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California to Close 70 State Parks (Updated)
The Sacramento Bee reported earlier today that 70 state parks will be closed due to the state budget deficit, under plans announced by Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration. Governor Jerry Brown’s budget calls for $22 million in cuts to state park funding. The criteria for choosing which parks would be shuttered were based on attendance rates and […]
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Food Safety Inspection Map
This week’s cover story, called “Queasy Eats,” is the result of a months-long investigation by HSU students enrolled in an advanced reporting class taught by Asst. Professor (and the Journal‘s Media Maven) Marcy Burstiner. The issue is on the streets now and will be online tomorrow morning. But this here feature is so cool that we […]