This week we’re sharing an Indian Country Today story on bringing the Hoopa Valley up to internet speed. We’ve also got updates on where wind power plans are right now and the road ahead. Dell’Arte’s holiday show Nightlight gets a review and a new(ish) winter squash gets the holiday appetizer treatment. Hit subscribe for weekly […]
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NCJ Preview: Flash Fiction, Title IX Update and Street Luge
Title IX, Cal Poly Humboldt, street luge, Ryan Farmer, flash fiction
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NCJ Preview: Skilled Nursing and Feeding Those in Need
This week we’re looking into issues in our local skilled nursing facilities — understaffing, lack of care — and how their owner’s business practices play into the problems while making big profits. We’re also talking about the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Facility in Eureka, and how the small staff and volunteers are feeding folks […]
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NCJ Preview: Food Waste Recovery, Local Native Art
This week, we’re looking at how Senate Bill 1383, built to help the environment by reducing harmful methane emissions through recycling and food waste diversion, could shake out in Humboldt. We’ll talk about how diverting 20 percent of edible food otherwise bound for landfill can not only help the planet, but those in need locally. […]
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NCJ Preview: CPH’s Title IX Trouble and a Busy Halloween
This week, we’re talking about Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr.’s stunning comments about Title IX, the federal law requiring equal access to education. Those comments come as a former CPH student athlete is going through a Title IX process regarding her claim of sexual assault by her coach’s husband. We’ve also got the review […]
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NCJ Preview: Sara Bareilles, Local Theater and Music Shows
This week we’re looking back at Sara Bareilles’ huge outdoor concert in Eureka, as well as the artist’s other gifts to her hometown, including a music space and books for the Humboldt Literacy Project. We’ve also got a review of a local Beckett-inspired play and musical highlights for the week from our Setlist columnist Collin […]
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NCJ Preview: Providence’s Brutal Billing, Yang’s Wings
This week we’re talking about the New York Times‘ exposé on how Providence Health has accepted $1 billion in tax breaks to care for the poor but has hounded those qualified for free care with sometimes devastating bills. It’s an issue that hits Humboldt via St. Joseph Hospital and its clinics. We’re also getting to […]
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NCJ Preview: Ukraine to Eureka, Watson’s Support and Market Eats
The war in Ukraine is close to home this week as we look at how one Eureka family has taken a high schooler from the region and how folks in Humboldt can help sponsor refugees. As an update to Brett Watson’s re-election bid after a third-party investigation found he sexually harassed a city employee, the […]
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NCJ Preview: Fire and Real Estate, and a Chili Contender
How will the already stretched Arcata Fire District manage with proposed expansion of Arcata’s population and housing in light of the university’s shift to a Cal Poly? We’ll talk about what the costs and obstacles for keeping people safe. Speaking of Cal Poly Humboldt, we’ve got a story on the university’s high-priced land purchase. We’ve […]
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NCJ Preview: A Japanese Festival, Wildfire Helpers and Bagel News
This week we’re looking at how Humboldt Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI) brought the county’s first Obon festival, a Japanese Buddhist tradition with dancing, drumming and honoring ancestors. Also, if you’re looking for help in the midst of the Six Rivers fires, or looking to help those in need, we’ve got resources to […]
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NCJ Preview: Local Favorites, Yurok Tribe Report and Garden Helpers
The Best of Humboldt issue is out and we’ve some favorites (and head-scratchers) among the winners. We’re also going over the Yurok Tribe’s recent report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, from looking at the data to its suggestions for a multi-pronged response to the heartbreaking crisis. Then we turn to the backyard and ways […]
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NCJ Preview: Burning the Family Ranch, Roasting Vegetables, Bird Calls and Audits
This week we’re talking about how controlled burning works on private ranch land as wildfire prevention, with staff writer Linda Stansberry sharing her own family’s experience. Also, with summer vegetables taking over the local farmers markets, we’ve got Simona Carini’s roasted vegetable recipe, which may have you rethinking your standard sides. And a little bird […]