In any Humboldt County election, the main event is the League of Women Voters “candidate forum.” (Debates have been banished from all elections.)

Tonight, on KEET-TV and broadcast live on the Internet, the candidates for Fifth District Supervisor — Evan Schwartz and Mary Burke — take the stage.

If you’re interested at all in local government — and you should be, given the whole 250-year experiment in government of, by and for the people that we’ve been running over here — then you should tune in!

Press release from the League of Women Voters:

Tune in on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 7 p.m. for the Humboldt County Fifth District Supervisor candidate forum, hosted by the League of Women Voters of Humboldt County in partnership with KEET-TV. Candidates Evan Schwartz and Mary Burke will answer questions submitted by community members over the course of an hour.

The forum will be broadcast live on KEET-TV with a live stream available on their website (https://video.keet.org/), and archived for later viewing on Access Humboldt.

The public is welcome to submit questions, either via email to leaguehumboldt@gmail.com (until 6:45 p.m.) or via phone to 707-445-0811 (starting at 6:45 p.m.).

The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.