UPDATE: A second budget meeting, held last night, explored options to preserve funding for public safety, according to an article in this morning’s Times-Standard. Council Member Melinda Ciarabellini suggested halving funding for Eureka Main Street and the chamber of commerce and cutting funding entirely for such organizations as the Retired Senior Volunteer Program and the […]
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UPDATED: Bergel Takes Lead in Ward 3 Race; City on Cusp of History
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Elections Office has released its post-election update, which can be found here. The notables, other than Bergel’s apparent come-from-behind victory, are the passage of Eureka City Schools’ bond measure and the narrow failure of that of Jacoby Creek School District. PREVIOUSLY: It looks like Eureka’s going to seat what’s believed to […]
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Keep Biting Those Nails
The Humboldt County Elections Office is zeroing in final election tallies, and has inched closer to determining the final number of ballots outstanding in the nail-biter of a race for Eureka’s Ward 3 city council seat. When the dust settled from Election Day, incumbent Mike Newman led challenger Kim Bergel by 104 votes, having taken […]
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UPDATED: Kim Bergel’s Slim, Slim Chance
UPDATE: Hold the phone! Kim Bergel’s chances of unseating Eureka Councilman Mike Newman for his Ward 3 seat just got a fair bit chunkier. When the Journal spoke to Humboldt County Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich after midnight, she estimated 1,000 or so ballots may have been dropped off at the Humboldt County Elections Office […]
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5TH UPDATE: The Council Races
5th UPDATE: The final tallies are in… The only nail biter race appears to be in Eureka’s Ward 3, where challenger Kim Bergel trails incumbent Mike Newman by just 104 votes. It’s currently unclear how many provisional and vote by mail ballots remain to be counted in Eureka, so it’s hard to tell if Bergel […]
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UPDATED: Challenger Looms in Shadows of Eureka Council Race
The City of Eureka has determined that an unnamed would-be challenger to 1st Ward Councilwoman Marian Brady has failed to qualify for the ballot. In a press release, the city cited section 301 of the city charter as the reason the would-be candidate did not qualify. That section reads: “No person shall be eligible for […]