The first thing incoming Eureka City Manager Dean Lotter and his wife Wendy did after arriving in Humboldt County was pick up a rental car and hit the streets, set on the idea of getting lost in the city he hoped to helm. The couple — both raised in the Midwest — had already been […]
Sean McLaughlin
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Talking Transparency
Sunshine Week, that celebration of journalistic freedom and the public’s right to know, may be well over, but you can keep the spirit going. If you missed Access Humboldt’s March 20 “Transparency and Privacy Roundtable” hosted by Sean McLaughlin and featuring Shahid Buttar of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eureka Police Chief Andy Mills and the Journal‘s own news editor Thadeus […]
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FCC Takes a Step Over the Digital Divide
A divided Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 Thursday to modernize Lifeline, a program that subsidizes critical communications services for the poor, to include broadband Internet access. The vote means that, by the end of the year, Americans with a household income at or below 135 percent of the federal poverty line will be eligible for […]