Most of the time when the Bayside Music Collective plays, “It never leaves the building,” says Mike Dronkers, who describes it as “an informal group of people who do music with no end goal.” The group shifted to remote jamming when shelter in place came down, with Dronkers passing around tracks to which the individual […]
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Huffman to Talk COVID Tonight at Virtual Town Hall
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman will host a virtual town hall meeting this evening to engage with constituents, update them on his efforts in Congress and speak with a trio of local officials about COVID-19 related efforts. Huffman will be joined for the 5 p.m. shelter-in-place gathering by Humboldt County Public Health Officer Teresa Frankovich, […]
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Huffman Applauds Relief Funding for Local Health Centers, Which Hope More is on the Way
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman announced yesterday the awarding of more than $2 million in funding for local health centers through the $2 trillion CARES Act aimed at halting some of the economic fallout from COVID-19.. “This funding, successfully negotiated by Democrats in the recent CARES Act, is a huge win for our frontline health […]
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Slowing the Velocity
As the Journal went to press April 7, Public Health announced one more Humboldt County resident had tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the local total to an even 50. While that number represented a sharp spike over two weeks, with 48 of those positive cases coming over the span of 14 days and 29 of […]
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UPDATED: Watch Huffman’s COVID-19 Town Hall
UPDATE: North Coast Congressman has posted video of last night’s town hall meeting on COVID-19 to his Facebook page. We’ve embedded it below. PREVIOUSLY: North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman has announced he will host an “online ‘shelter in place community town hall” on Tuesday from 5 to 6 p.m. “In compliance with shelter in place […]
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‘The Weight of History’
It was a day North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman had long been pushing and waiting for, but when Dec. 18 came and the U.S. House of Representatives readied to vote on articles of impeachment for President Donald Trump, it was a bit strange. “It has been quite an odyssey,” said Huffman, who was one of […]
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Trump Impeached by House (With Video of Huffman’s Floor Speech)
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman joined a majority of his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in voting to impeach President Donald Trump today, making him the third president in the nation’s history to face forced removal from office. Today’s vote means Trump will now face a trial in the Senate on two articles […]
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Huffman Gets Bleak Input on Fisheries
Long before the first refugees from the city planted cannabis seeds in the hills of Southern Humboldt, fishermen braved the seas in summer and winter to bring back crab, salmon, rockfish, lingcod and a variety of other seafood. It was always considered a reliable — if dangerous — way to make a living. Things have […]
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Huffman: Dems ‘Snowball of Unity’ on Impeachment Led to Historic Announcement
As one of the first and most vociferous members of Congress to beat the impeachment drum, his frustrations having steadily built in recent weeks, North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman applauded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s historic announcement this afternoon that the U.S. House of Representatives will launch a formal impeachment inquiry. “It’s been a remarkable snowball […]
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Huffman Calls Congressional Oath to God “Unconstitutional,” “Preposterous”
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman is again making waves as Congress’ only proclaimed “humanist.” During an interview on the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s Freethought Matters program, Huffman, a lawyer by trade, said he believes requiring Congressional witnesses to pledge an oath to God is unconstitutional. “It’s unconstitutional to require a witness in congressional testimony to […]
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‘A Humanitarian Disaster’
A beautiful 2-year-old Honduran girl flashed a huge, radiant smile when we walked up to her July 27. Her name is Natalia and she just wanted to play. We were instantly friends and she demanded that I draw a gato for her on papel. When I playfully drew a whale instead, and then a shark, […]
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Huffman Helps Pass Minimum Wage Bill; Legislation DOA in Republican Senate
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman joined a majority of his House colleagues this morning in voting to gradually increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an to $15 an hour over the next six years. If approved by the Senate and signed by the president (both of which seem unlikely), the legislation would increase wages […]