PREVIOUS LOCKWOOD: 

• Heroin, Meth, Weed, Prescription Pills, Mushrooms and Cache of Weapons Found in Arcata Home, Drug Task Force Says
• Drug Task Force Finds Meth, Heroin, Dilaudid on 28-Year-Old Woman After High-Speed Chase Through Eureka
• Meth, Heroin, Weed, Nine-Day-Old Child Taken Out of Christie’s Motel

Humboldt County Drug Task Force press release: 

Since early April the Humboldt County Drug Task Force (HCDTF) has been conducting an investigation into Angela Lockwood (32 years old from Arcata) for trafficking drugs and guns in Humboldt County. The HCDTF has arrested Lockwood on multiple previous occasions for illegal drugs and firearms. Lockwood was out of jail on bail for a previous HCDTF arrest. Lockwood is a convicted felon and is not allowed to possess firearms.

On Monday May 2nd, 2022 at approx. 9:30am HCDTF agents served a search warrant on Lockwood’s residence in the 700 block of Fickle Hill Rd. in Arcata. Agents detained Lockwood and her roommate, Daniel Lehman (37 years old from Arcata) without incident.

HCDTF Agents conducted a search of the residence and located 7 firearms, 2 partial firearms, 3 ounces of methamphetamine, 2 grams of fentanyl, 2 grams of DMT, digital scales, packaging materials, and a large amount of US Currency. Lockwood & Lehman were transported to the Humboldt County Jail where they were booked for the following charges:

• 11378 H&S Possession of methamphetamine for sale
• 113666.5 H&S Operating or maintaining a drug house
• 11370.1 H&S Possession of controlled substance while armed
• 29800 PC Felon in possession of a firearm
• 30305(a) PC Felon in possession of ammunition
• 30605 PC Possession of an assault weapon
• 12022.1 PC Committing a felony while out on bail

Anyone with information related to this investigation or other narcotics related crimes are encouraged to call the Humboldt County Drug Task Force at 707-267-9976.

Press release from the Humboldt County Drug Task Force:

Since early April the Humboldt County Drug Task Force (HCDTF) has been conducting an investigation into David Elliott (39 years old from Fortuna) and Octobreona Hof (24 years old from Fortuna) for trafficking fentanyl into Humboldt County. Elliott and Hof have been selling fentanyl out of a hotel in the 800 block of Main St. in Fortuna. On Friday April 29th, 2022 HCDTF Agents conducted surveillance on Elliott, Hof and Lacey Jackson (32 years old from Fortuna) as they travelled down to the Tenderloin District in San Francisco to pick up more fentanyl. Agents obtained a search warrant for the involved subjects and their vehicle.

On Sunday May 1st, 2022 at approx. 1:30am HCDTF Agents conducted surveillance of Elliott, Hof, and Jackson as they entered Humboldt County. With the assistance of the Fortuna Police Department agents made a traffic stop on the vehicle on northbound Highway 101 in Rio Dell. All three subjects were detained without incident.

HCDTF Agents conducted a search of the three subjects and located approx. 3 ounces of fentanyl and a small quantity of methamphetamine. All three subjects were placed under arrest. Elliott, Hof, and Jackson were transported to the Humboldt County Jail where they were booked for the following charges:

• 11351 H&S Possession of fentanyl for sale

• 11352(b) H&S Transportation of fentanyl across non-contiguous counties

• 11379(b) H&S Transportation of methamphetamine across non-contiguous counties

• 182 PC Conspiracy

Agents also located a wallet in the vehicle that belonged to a victim of a previous theft in Fortuna. Agents are conducting a follow up investigation to the stolen property.

HCDTF would like to thank the Fortuna Police Department for their assistance with this investigation. Anyone with information related to this investigation or other narcotics related crimes are encouraged to call the Humboldt County Drug Task Force at 707-267-9976.

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DISTRICT ATTORNEY

There once was a DA candidate, Eads
Her slogan really should be ‘Eads Leads’
She’s smart, hard working too
Bad guys will receive what’s due
Stacey Eads will accomplish good deeds

— Jean Sheffler

CLERK-RECORDER/REGISTRAR OF VOTERS

In the County Recorder’s Office serves Tiffany
Her dedication has earned her a vote from you and me
Her always positive attitude
Is always met with gratitude
Come on, Humboldt, let’s join in an epiphany

— Mike O’Hern

AUDITOR-CONTROLLER

Report of A-C investigation
KPD claims it’s only fiction
Employees squeal
The pain is real
 Vote Cheryl, start A-C’s eviction

The County can use some consoling
New Master of Audit-Controlling
Who makes it fun
Gets reports done
Vote Dillingham, get payroll rolling

— Katrin Homan

FOURTH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR

The environment, turns out it matters!
When it’s tough, politicians, they scatter!
but Arroyo’s Bad A$$.
Ceilings, she shatters,
What? A politician who accounts for the cash!?

Natalie’s running for 4th district, oh good!
She’s got sense in her head, respect for Red Wood,
mad diplomacy skill!
So sick of the sh&t in this hood?
So vote for Arroyo on June 7th: I will!

— Dana Maher

FIFTH DISTRICT SUPERVISOR

Steve thinks Klamath should lose its big dam in
This river which can’t stand more slammin’
Our creeks he restores
Clam beach he adores
He’s for salmon and clammin’ not scammin’!

From Mac’ville to Klamath to Orleans
Steven’s efforts rate high by all means
Helping Fire Volunteers
Tribes, Districts and peers
He helps them achieve all their dreams.

— Harriet Hill

Madrone has been residing
In the District he’s now guiding
For forty five years
Let’s give him five cheers
Keep him over the Fifth presiding

There is a man from Eureka
He moved to the Fifth to seek a
Prominent role
To be in control
We’d rather he went to Topeka

— Diane Higgins

Madrone is a candidate most Delectable
He treats everyone as Respectable
He works not for favors
It’s the challenges he savors
Which makes him supremely Electable

A brave fellow is Stephen Madrone
In a world that’s so self-destruct-prone
He has great foresight
At times to do right
He must to be counted alone

Madrone is a man who won’t muck it
With more than panache in his bucket
He won’t go for smears
To get four more years
But from others he may have to duck it

With Madrone you get a straight arrow
A mind that is kind and not narrow
He studies the issues
Our funds he won’t misuse
He votes based on reason and care-oh (oy)

— Joyce King

The Dossiad

There once was a knight with a Clydesdale
Who learned that his kingdom may soon fail
On seventh night
He won the fight
Hurray to the Larry Doss Prevail

Elect Larry Doss to the fifth throne
In June tell the incumbent: Go Home!
Who thinks he knows better
And true facts don’t matter
Vote Yes Larry Doss, No Madrone

Madrone and Doss went for a ride
Through Humboldt’s serene countryside
Larry rode farther
Steve ran out of water
Vote Larry Doss on polling night!

The Sups gave the sheriffs a raise
Madrone now seeks everyone’s praise
You know what’s wild?
The Sheriff smiled
In Doss nomination portraits

Madrone agitated Michelle
While discussing banking the rail
“It benefits all
Should meth sales fall
Through South Humboldt let’s blast a trail!”

To Geologist, state-certified,
“I know so much more” Steve replied
“I read a book
Took googling look
Your expert review is denied!”

Madrone share’s same camp with A-C
KPD is Steve’s nominee
Just days earlier
He censured her
Vote Larry Doss save our County!

With their water tanks empty and dry
At Madrone his constituents cry
Steve smiles, “That’s real good
Keeps exclusive your hood“
Vote for Larry Doss, give him a try!

Madrone wants for tourists a center
Where thieves will go for legal tender
While views distract
Rides are ransacked
Vote Larry Doss, don’t just surrender!

On Sups’ sheets his comments Steve provides
Ancient rumors as facts he recites
Now process gets hampered
With science that’s tampered
Vote Larry Doss, he’ll supervise!

Are you worried about housing loss
Tired of criminals who steal and harass?
If you’re on the fence
Don’t take a chance
Team up for Humboldt, vote Larry Doss!

— Katrin Homan

LIMERICKS ABOUT THESE LIMERICKS AND THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF ELECTION LIMERICKS:

The editor crew is a mean one
Wants limericks! Letters they condone
Faithful reader
Praise your leader
Then tore the creations and stomped on :-(

— Katrin Homan

In composing a limerick, per Sims
Some writers are shameful and dim
He says it’s astonishing
But goes on admonishing
Those he thinks lesser than him

So sad we are not smart like Hank
Suggesting our limericks are rank
He says some are terrible
But that’s not unbearable
Would he rather our pages be blank?

— Lora Canzoneri

Since limericks are mandatory
I think they told the story
But some can’t write
and have to alight
On different perambulatory

Election letters are dour
You couldn’t get anymore sour
To make ‘em fun
Just add a pun
Or a limerick to scour

— Bob Felter

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OK, that’s enough limericks for now! See you again in the fall, maybe, and I beg you to spend time working on your chops in the offseason.

Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office:

Bret Aaron Hensley Booking Photo | Humboldt County Correctional Facility

On May 1, 2022, at about 8:06 a.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol in the area of Hodgson and S Streets in Eureka observed a man walking in and out of traffic, constituting a traffic hazard.

Deputies contacted the man, 30-year-old Bret Aaron Hensley, and found that Hensley had two outstanding warrants for his arrest.

Deputies searched Hensley incident to arrest, locating over 5 grams of fentanyl, drug paraphernalia and other evidence consistent with the sale of controlled substances.

Hensley was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of possession of a controlled substance for sales (HS 11351) and possession of a controlled substance paraphernalia (HS 11364), in addition to warrant charges of possession of a controlled substance (HS 11377(a)), driving under the influence of drugs (VC 23152(f)), driving with a suspended driver’s license (VC 14601.1(a)) and driving with a defective windshield/rear window (VC 26710).  

Anyone with information about this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office at (707) 445-7251 or the Sheriff’s Office Crime Tip line at (707) 268-2539.

Part-time instructors at California’s community colleges have to work multiple jobs to make a living wage, but some still don’t have enough health insurance.

A state fund to aid them hasn’t been increased for decades from $490,000 a year, but now Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to add $200 million annually. While the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office says there’s no data to justify that spending, a union has collected survey information that could help the governor’s case.

The California Federation of Teachers gathered survey results in 2022 from about 2,500 part-time instructors, almost all of them teachers at community colleges — a sizable share of the roughly 35,000 part-timers employed across the state’s sprawling community college system.

The survey shows that 6% of part-time faculty don’t have health insurance from any source. A third of respondents said they receive insurance from a college at which they teach. About a quarter relied on their spouse’s coverage and 17% got theirs from Covered California or Medi-Cal.

Many say they still skip out on vital medical care — an indication that their insurance may be inadequate. Of those who responded, 30% said they did not get a medical test or exam that was recommended by a doctor. Nearly a fifth of respondents said they didn’t fill a prescription for themselves or a dependent and 11% said they cut pills in half or skipped doses.

The data, shared exclusively with CalMatters before being released today, give rare, if incomplete, insight into the health benefits and labor patterns of part-time faculty. Sometimes known in education circles as “freeway flyers” because of the multiple colleges many work at to earn a living wage, these instructors make up most of the teaching faculty in the state’s 116 community colleges but typically earn far less for the same amount of work full-time faculty receive.

The union argues that employers should be providing health insurance, not spouses or public subsidies.

“That’s the cost of having employees,” said Jeffery Freitas, president of the California Federation of Teachers, which represents part-time faculty in about a third of the state’s 73 community college districts, as well as other employees.In its latest state budget goals, the leadership of the state Senate is assuming Newsom’s $200 million plan passes, though nothing is finalized, said the office of President pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego.

Current health program only gets $490,000 a year

Newsom’s plan is to supercharge a state fund from the 1990s that allows colleges to be partially reimbursed for providing health insurance to part-time faculty.

But that program only receives $490,000 a year, meaning it reimburses districts for pennies on the dollar of the true cost. The state program excludes vision and dental coverage. Districts instead use money from other state and local revenues to provide insurance, but plans vary from covering all of a part-time faculty member’s premium costs to under 30%.

Meanwhile, part-time community college faculty at nearly half the college districts get no employer-provided health insurance, an EdSource investigation found.

A separate analysis by the union suggests that $200 million a year is very close to the amount needed to offer high-quality health insurance to 50% of part-time faculty. The union’s analysis assumes employees wouldn’t pay more than 10% of the premium costs.

The 50% cut-off in the analysis also assumes that currently no district will have more than half of their part-timers eligible for this health insurance because of minimum work requirements. If the program is better funded, it’s likely more faculty will participate.

How the $200 million could help one part-time faculty member

The federation of teachers wants to apply several tweaks to Newsom’s plan before the state budget must be passed by June 15.

One is to allow part time faculty to combine their teaching loads at multiple districts to reach the state program’s minimum 40% threshold of full-time work needed to access health insurance coverage. Currently, an instructor who teaches 20% of a full-time load at two different districts is unable to merge those workloads to receive health insurance. Some colleges choose to require a higher threshold for part-time faculty to access insurance. To get around that, the union also wants to make the 40% threshold the minimum requirement across all colleges. But that rule would apply only to colleges that want to use additional state health insurance dollars if there’s money left over.

Either of those changes would help restore no-cost or affordable health insurance for Juli Jones, likely saving her more than $1,000 a month. Jones is a U.S. history professor at Cuyamaca College in San Diego County. Until last September, she received health insurance from the college’s district, with her employer paying the full premium. But because the college cut her teaching load from five classes to four the past two academic years, she fell below the minimum hour threshold to receive district-paid insurance.To keep her insurance benefits, she purchased a COBRA plan that costs around $1,370 a month for her and her husband, she said. Due to a health issue, she dialed back her teaching duties at another nearby college district, but in normal times she’d be teaching at both districts to cobble together full-time work.The pursuit for enough teaching assignments to qualify for benefits “feels like Russian roulette,” Jones said. “It’s like a roller coaster that never stops and I’m always desperately trying to get more sections to feed this thing and keep it going.”

Health insurance is part of bigger picture

At least one lawmaker had argued that the road to better benefits is for more part-time faculty to become tenured. “It’s a no-brainer to me: Why not just hire them full-time, give them the benefits that they deserve as a full-time employee?” asked Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, a Democrat from Long Beach, during a hearing in April. “I’m still struggling with this $200 million concept, because it’s a patch, not a fix.”But college finance officers last year said declining community college enrollment means locking in money for full-time faculty makes little fiscal sense. Faculty disagreed.

It may seem counterintuitive for unions to vie for better treatment of part-time faculty when they also want more full-time openings at the colleges. But by paying part-time faculty “like you pay full-time faculty” and giving them health care, colleges have no benefit to continue hiring part-time faculty, “so you might as well hire full-time faculty,” Freitas said.

Just about a third of the faculty are full-time with benefits. Not only does that full-time status come with higher pay, but the salaries account for all the work faculty must do outside the classroom to educate their students, such as grading, lesson planning and mentoring students. But rarely do colleges pay part-time faculty for that non-classroom work.

There’s increased pushback to that reality. Two part-time community college faculty are suing Long Beach City College, arguing that the uncompensated work they do outside the classroom violates state minimum wage law. Relatedly, a bill by Assemblymember Miguel Santiago, a Democrat from Los Angeles, would require that colleges pay part-time faculty at a rate equal to what full-time faculty earn. A legislative committee estimates this alone would cost at least $267 million annually.

The new union survey shows that 59% of respondents earn less than $40,000 from their teaching jobs — even though more than half work at least a half of a full teaching load and most want to teach more. Meanwhile, an investigation by EdSource revealed that the average pay for part-time community college faculty is less than $20,000.

Should Covered California insure community college part-time faculty?

Jones, the San Diego-area part-time instructor, is not alone in seeing her teaching load cut. Declining student enrollments have prompted community colleges to shrink the number of classes they offer, leaving less work for non-tenured teachers.

That had the Legislative Analyst’s Office asking whether tying part-time faculty health insurance to college employment makes sense. “Potentially having to change health plans frequently might be less optimal for part-time faculty than remaining insured under Covered California.”

But if the state pours more money into part-time faculty health plans, “unions and the districts may negotiate to improve the benefits currently offered,” said Laurel Lucia, director of the Health Care program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Colleges that already offer health plans to part-time faculty “might reduce the premium amount that the worker is required to pay or they might reduce the amount that people have to pay out of pocket to access care.”

Jones said she’ll sign up with Covered California if her COBRA runs out early next year and her employer health insurance isn’t restored. That’s not ideal, she said, because she’s used to the doctors and care on her current plan, which she may lose under a different insurer.

“But, frankly, if I’m not teaching enough, then the chances of my being able to afford the payment (for Covered California) aren’t very good either,” Jones said.

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Hello from beautiful Eureka, California. Tonight’s show has been sold out for over three months - and the atmosphere should be electric! pic.twitter.com/g6cR1o1Dh6

— Mick Foley (@RealMickFoley) May 1, 2022

WWE superstar, best-selling author and stand-up comedian Mick Foley seemed to enjoy his time in Humboldt County.

Foley Tweeted a photo of himself taking in the sights along the Humboldt coast before his sold-out show at the Savage Henry Comedy Club in Eureka on Saturday.

“Hello from beautiful Eureka, California,” Foley wrote. “Tonight’s show has been sold out for over three months — and the atmosphere should be electric!”

While Foley currently earns his living as a traveling storyteller/comedian, the 56-year-old is best known for his decades of work in the ring as wrestling personalities Cactus Jack, Dude Love and Mankind.

Savage Henry owner Chris Durant told the Outpost that Foley enjoyed his time in Humboldt so much that he said plans to return for future shows.

“The dude has so much respect for his fans,” Durant said. “Nice to see that it’s genuine.”

Mick Foley performing at the Savage Henry Comedy Club in Eureka.

“There’s this one culture in New Guinea where women have to give men endless blowjobs because that’s where breast milk comes from.”

(Cynthia Eller, Author of The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory)

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While reading a delightful and informative interview with Eller, in which she trashes the idea that women once ruled under the divine protection of an all-loving goddess, I remembered hearing about another BJ myth, the one that claimed that women in Kansas City swallowed semen as a prophylactic against cholera. Another is the old, “It’s healthy protein!” I don’t think it’s hard to guess who dreamed up these “fellatio is good for you” ideas.

The main thrust of the interview, which you can find here, is about how ultra-feminists have glommed on to any and all evidence, no matter how tenuous, that ancient civilizations (those that existed more than five thousand years ago, say) were matriarchal and worshipped a goddess or several goddesses. The evidence is, indeed, scanty.

Take Çatalhöyük, the neolithic city south of Konya in Turkey which was originally excavated in the 1960s by an archeologist who was, according to Eller, “a partisan of this matrilineal theory, so he interpreted everything that way,” finding dozens of female figures that he claimed were goddesses. Thirty years later, Ian Hodder, a Stanford archeologist (perhaps without a feminist axe to grind) re-excavated the city using more modern techniques and found that almost all the female figurines had been thrown onto garbage heaps, including a famous nude woman on a throne. “Very little in the context of the find suggests that they were religious objects,” he says.

Marija Gimbutas, the brilliant Lithuanian archeologist who ended up teaching at UCLA, wrote several “goddess” books, based on her belief that Old Europe was gynocentric, as opposed to the later patriarchal Bronze Age Indo-European people who lived there. She saw “the feminine” in everything! Spirals and dots became Fallopian tubes and wombs, in her interpretations, and every ambiguous figure was – obviously — female, in her view. Eller sees it differently: “…when you actually dissect someone, Fallopian tubes are just teeny, and you wouldn’t notice that they were connected [to the womb].”

Personally, I’m disappointed. I love the idea that our patriarchal, violent, polarized, screwed-up macho world may have once been a sweet place of love and light, informed by such values as kindness, peace and compassion, held together by a sisterhood. Whatever mistakes they made, they couldn’t possibly have made more of a mess of it than we’ve got now, could they? (Bring up “Imagine.”)

Some of the modern claims about prehistoric people worshipping women may have come from a quaint Victorian belief that Stone Age folk didn’t make the connection between copulation and pregnancy and childbirth. The idea was that women, as the sole source of procreation — who needs men?! — should be revered, because without them, the tribe wouldn’t survive. (I’m not saying that women shouldn’t be revered: in my experience most women are far more worthy of reverence than most men.) If semen had any role at all, it was to act as a sort of glue that enabled bits and pieces of the baby-to-be to self-assemble. Or maybe a man dreamt of a baby and, you know, Bam!

But c’mon! Those guys domesticated sheep and goats, dogs, cows and horses. They saw them copulating, they knew which ones had and hadn’t, and they surely made the connection. Something happened to the copulating ones that didn’t happen to the others, which resulted in the young of the species a few months later. QED.

Bottom line: men are good for something, even if it doesn’t involve blowjobs.