Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate of Eureka, California is recalling “Ginger Snap Milk Chocolate” batch 23194 because they were mispackaged and are Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate bars in Ginger Snap wrappers and contain undeclared peanuts. People who have allergies to peanuts are at risk of serious life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.
The recalled “Ginger Snap Milk Chocolate” bars were distributed locally to retail accounts in Humboldt County, via online/mail orders and through our factory store in Eureka, California.
The product comes in a 2 oz wrapped chocolate bar marked with lot number 23194 on the back with an expiration date of 13/JAN/2025 stamped on the back. UPC 858788004495
No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.
The recall was initiated after it was discovered that the peanut-containing product was sold to two customers in our factory store who returned it saying it tasted like peanut butter. Any consumers who have concerns relating to an allergic reaction should contact a physician immediately.
Distribution of product from this batch has been suspended and is being recalled.
Consumers who have purchased 2 oz Ginger Snap Milk Chocolate bars are urged to return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 707-798-6010. Open weekdays 9-5 pm.
It has been a rough few weeks for Capital Public Radio (CapRadio), the Sacramento-based public radio station, which manages both North State Public Radio and Humboldt County’s own KHSU — or what remains of it after a near-complete dismantling of local involvement in 2019.
At the end of August the station laid off 12 percent of its workforce and canceled four music programs, citing financial challenges. Last week, on the heels of what CapRadio itself described as a “devastating audit,” Sacramento State President Luke Wood announced that the university, which holds the station’s FCC license, was taking over operational control of the NPR member station. On Wednesday, 14 CapRadio board members resigned, citing “a failure of Sac State to inform and engage with the board in a good faith effort to resolve CapRadio’s financial issues.”
The audit [click here for a pdf], which was conducted by California State University, uncovered widespread fiscal mismanagement. Some examples:
More than $1.1 million in studio equipment and furniture loans were taken out without approval by CapRadio’s board;
CapRadio accepted gifts “without written delegation of authority from the campus president” and processed an $85,000 “gift-in-kind” that actually was a discounted purchase of a piano that is now in storage;
Credit card charges were not properly reviewed and, in some cases, late fees and charges over the card limit were incurred;
The station failed to make payments the past two years on an $8 million loan that Sac State assumed for tenant improvements to the station’s planned downtown Sacramento building; and
The station “lacked complete and current policies and procedures in almost every financial and operational area reviewed.”
Protesters rally on the Arcata Plaza in 2019. | File photo.
Asked how this mess might impact KHSU, North State Public Radio General Manager Phil Wilke said he’s committed to ensuring that the on-air programming and signal strength are not compromised.
“Whatever the outcome of the restructuring on the financial side and the board governance side is, the independence of the newsroom and programming arms of CapRadio, North State Public Radio and KHSU are not going to be compromised,” Wilke said.
Asked how he can be confident of such stability given the upheaval at CapRadio, Wilke acknowledged that he was giving a “best-case scenario,” though he added that he doesn’t envision a scenario in which Sac State lets CapRadio go belly-up.
”I suppose in worst-case scenario that could happen,” he allowed. “But CapRadio in the Sacramento metro area is a well-established, well-thought-of journalistic outfit. That dedication to journalism and cultural programming … doesn’t waver. Now, the resources they have to perform those functions might change at some point if financial restructuring takes a short-term hit, sure, but I can’t envision a scenario where Sac State allows really one of the significant media organization in the state to go under.”
CapRadio partnered with Humboldt State University (as it was then called) in 2021, with the university retaining the FCC-issued broadcast licenses while CapRadio and Chico-based North State Public Radio assumed control of daily operations and programming.
Since then, local involvement has been minimal, though Wilke has been making efforts to expand it. In recent weeks he has reached out to local newsrooms, including the Outpost’s, to request collaborations with local producer Alejandro Zepeda on news content. (The Outpost declined the entreaty.)
Wilke said other efforts are underway.
”We’re working with the journalism department and student radio station on campus [KRFH], and we will be getting interns working on the production side to get ‘em trained up,” he said. “We’re talking with other media outlets on the Lost Coast to see if there are partnership opportunities available, so we’re trying everything we can to increase local voices on the air.”
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office — Drug Task Force:
Beginning in late 2022, the Humboldt County Drug Task Force (HCDTF) initiated an investigation into a multi-state drug trafficking organization (DTO). Over the course of the investigation, HCDTF Agents successfully purchased several pounds of methamphetamine and ounces of cocaine and fentanyl from various members of the DTO in Humboldt County and in Southern Oregon with the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These purchases allowed Agents to successfully identify the DTO leader and participating members.
Valentin Vargas-Diaz
In June of 2023, Agents identified Valentin VARGAS-DIAZ as a member of the DTO. Agents learned that Valentin VARGAS-DIAZ had an active felony warrant for his arrest for:
PC261(A)(4)- Rape/Victim Unconscious at time of rape
PC289(D)- Sexual Penetration with a Foreign Object
PC417(A)(2)- Exhibit Firearm
HS11359(b)- Possession for Sales
PC25850(A)- Carry Loaded Firearm in Public Place
Valentin VARGAS-DIAZ (46 years old) was arrested on his warrant and booked at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on June 12th, 2023.
Everardo Vargas-Diaz
On October 3rd, 2023, HCDTF Agents with assistance from DEA, BLM, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) Marijuana Enforcement Team, and the Fortuna Police Department (FoPD), served search warrants at five locations in Humboldt County and one location in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Upon serving a search warrant in the 800 block of Sage Road in Ferndale, agents located 2.2 pounds of methamphetamine in a vehicle belonging to Everardo VARGAS-DIAZ (35 years old from Ferndale). Agents also located a functional digital scale, pay and owe sheets, and two small baggies containing methamphetamine. VARGAS-DIAZ was booked at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on the following charges:
HS11378- Possession of a Methamphetamine
HS11366.5(A)- Operating/Maintaining a Drug House
HS11378- Possession of Methamphetamine for Sales
HS11370.4(B)(1)- Enhancement for Possessing over one Kilogram of Methamphetamine
Oscar Dominguez-Silva
Simultaneously, DEA Agents in Grants Pass, Oregon served a search warrant at the residence of Oscar DOMINGUEZ-SILVA, the identified leader of the DTO. Upon arrival at the residence, Agents located DOMINGUEZ-SILVA, 4 firearms, 4.4 pounds of methamphetamine and 5.29 ounces of cocaine. DOMINGUEZ-SILVA was booked at a federal facility and will be indicted on federal charges related to narcotics trafficking.
Agents then served a search warrant at a residence in the 2900 block of Rebecca Lane in Fortuna. Agents located indicia for Oscar DOMINGUEZ-SILVA and approximately $22,000.00 in U.S. Currency.
On October 4th, 2023, Agents served search warrants at an additional three locations in the Eureka area.
Sandro Ramirez-Uribe
Upon serving a search warrant in the 1100 block of L Street in Eureka, Agents located Sandro RAMIREZ-URIBE (44 years old from Eureka) and Melissa PARKER (39 years old from Eureka). Agents also located 6 grams of methamphetamine, metal knuckles, ammunition, and drug paraphernalia. Both RAMIREZ-URIBE and PARKER had felony warrants for their arrest as well. RAMIREZ-URIBE and PARKER were booked at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on the following charges:
Melissa Parker
PC21810- Possession of Metal Knuckles
HS11366.5(A)- Operating/Maintaining a Drug House
HS11378- Possession of Methamphetamine
Agents then served a search warrant at a residence in the 1800 block of I street in Eureka. Agents located Renee HERNANDEZ-PULIDO (27 years old of Eureka), 30 grams of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, pay and owe sheets, a functional digital scale, a firearm, and approximately $4,500.00 in U.S. Currency. HERNANDEZ-PULIDO was booked at the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on the following charges:
Renee Hernandez-Pulido
HS11370.1(A)- Possession of Methamphetamine While Armed
HS11378- Possession of Methamphetamine
HS11378- Possession of Methamphetamine for Sales
A final search warrant was served at a residence in the 800 block of Huntoon Street in Eureka where agents seized a sawed-off shotgun.
K9 Yahtzee (HCSO), K9 Rex (HCSO), K9 Cain (FoPD), K9 Blitz (FoPD, and their respective handlers assisted in each of the search warrants and alerted to the narcotics located.
Throughout the entire investigation, Agents seized a total of:
23 Pounds of Methamphetamine
7 Ounces of Fentanyl
6 Ounces of Cocaine
6 Firearms
The following was seized for state and federal asset forfeiture purposes:
$26,500.00 in U.S. Currency
Vehicle belonging to identified leader of the DTO
Residential property belonging to identified leader of the DTO.
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.
Michael Fields, bar owner, bartender and now bar play producer | Photos: Stephanie McGeary
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If you’ve lived in Humboldt for a while, there’s a good chance that you’ve had a drink, or maybe even seen some live music at the famous Logger Bar in Blue Lake. But have you ever seen a play there?! Probably not. Why would you? It’s a bar, not a theater!
But starting next week, for seven nights only, the beloved drinkery will serve as both a bar and a theater. For the first time the space will be used as the venue for The Logger Lear, a new play created by Logger Bar owner Michael Fields.
“I thought it would be perfect,” Fields told the Outpost during a recent rehearsal inside the bar. “It’s a very different experience and we’ll see how people respond to it, because you’re really up close.”
Like the Logger Bar itself, Fields is a pretty recognizable figure to anyone who’s been around Humboldt for a while. You might know him from the Logger Bar, which he purchased close to two years ago, and where he serves drinks once a week. But Fields is probably best known for his work with Dell’Arte International, where he served as producing artistic director for more than 40 years and helped create and act in countless memorable shows on the theater company’s stage.
Fields left his role at Dell’Arte in 2021, and not long after announced plans to purchase the bar from longtime owner Kate Martin. With the Logger being located just down the block from Dell’Arte, the two establishments have a long relationship, with staff and students from the theater school frequenting the local watering hole. Fields recalls spending many nights in the bar, writing plays with other Dell’Arte folks, while the bartenders let them stay as late as they needed to work. With the bar serving as such a big part of Fields’ life, it only seemed fitting that he take over and help continue the bar’s legacy.
Over the last few years, Fields also started his own production company, LONGSHADR, which has put on several productions, including Madsummer and Radioman, which both ran at the Dell’Arte theater. Now Fields and his production company are taking on a new challenge — putting on a musical inside of the bar.
“I’ve never done a play in the bar,” Fields said. “I’ve done plays in living rooms. Back in the ‘80s it was a very fashionable thing to do intimate pieces in people’s homes or things like that.”
The Logger Lear cast rehearses a bar fight scene
The Logger Lear, which is very loosely based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, is set in the Logger Bar and follows the story of title character Terry Lear (played by Donald Forrest), an aging bar owner, who decides to throw his own wake inside the bar before he dies. Similarly to King Lear, the character has three daughters (played by Isabel Semler, Alex Blouin, and Shawn Wagner), who are competing for their father’s love, as Lear tries to decide who to leave his “kingdom,” which in this story is his bar. Unlike King Lear, however, no one dies in Logger Lear and the play is very much a comedy. Other characters include Happy the Fool (David Powell), Wilmer Raandom, the county’s health inspector (Ben Clifton), Mike the bastard lawyer (Evan Grande), and even a singing ghost (Jeff Landen). Fields, himself, will also be in the show, playing the bartender, and said that there will also be “special guest appearances” by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
The music will also all be performed live, backed by local musicians Marla Joy, Tim Randles, Jeff Kelley and Mike Labolle. Many of the songs are recognizable covers, but there are also a couple of originals written by Randles and Kelley.
You might be thinking at this point that this sounds crazy. A full cast, a band and an audience all inside of the Logger Bar? I mean, how in the heck is this going to work? And it is a little crazy, which is something that Fields and the actors are fully aware of. But Fields designed the show with all of this in mind. Only 50 people will be able to attend each performance, and will sit in either the chairs that have been put out or right at the bar. (A couple or bar stools will be reserved for the actors to use during the performance.)
When the Outpost popped into the bar earlier this week, the cast was rehearsing a very entertaining bar fight scene and it is clear that the actors will be using every inch of available space for this show. It’s definitely going to be a more intimate experience than you would get at a conventional theater, with it sort of feeling like you’re a part of the story that is taking place in the bar. Audience members will even be able to order drinks during the show, though Fields did specify that shaken cocktails will not be on the menu, since they make a little too much noise. To help lessen disruptive noise, the pool table will also be closed during the performance.
Technically, during the performances the bar will only be open to people who have bought tickets to the show. After all, there won’t be space for many more people anyway. But Fields believes strongly in treating his regulars well, so people who frequent the Logger will still be allowed in to hang out and watch. In fact, several of the characters in the play are based on beloved Logger Bar regulars, so if you are one, you probably won’t want to miss it.
Fields said that the play is very much a love letter to the Logger Bar, which has been an important Blue Lake hub since it opened more than 100 years ago, and all of the people who help make it such a special place.
“It’s like the community’s living room,” he said. “It’s a place where people come to be with each other. This [play] is what I would call true ‘theater of place.’ It reflects the community and what’s happening here.”
The Logger Lear opens on Oct. 10 and will run through Oct. 17 at the Logger Bar (510 Railroad Ave, Blue Lake.) The show starts at 6 p.m. and the runtime is just over an hour. Because of limited seating, it is highly recommended that you purchase tickets in advance, which you can find at this link.
Cheers!
Actors Donald Forrest (Lear) and Shawn Wagner (Lear’s daughter, Cordelia) rehearse a scene at the bar
Yesterday, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Board voted 4-0 to adopt the
NPDES order awarding the permit for wastewater discharge for co-permittees Nordic
Aquafarms California and the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation, and Conservation
District.
Nordic is dedicated to fulfilling the conditions of the order which includes extensive
water monitoring. With one more permit obtained, Nordic is pleased to continue on the
path forward in the permitting process.
“We are hoping to be in front of the Coastal Commission this November and continue
the positive momentum. This summer Nordic’s application had also been approved by
the CDFW to raise Yellowtail Kingfish and with each successful step, we look forward to
beginning construction and becoming operational,” states Brenda Chandler, CEO.
Now California’s chief utility regulator is considering a new rooftop solar policy that a chorus of critics say will make it harder for the state to meet any of those ambitious targets.
On Oct. 12, the California Public Utilities Commission will vote on whether to reduce the payments that owners of solar panel-equipped apartment buildings receive for the electricity they generate on their rooftops. The decision could mirror an overhaul that the commission adopted late last year for sun-powered single-family homes and is part of a larger battle among environmentalists and energy policymakers over the role that individually-owned solar panels should play in the state’s planned divorce from fossil fuel-derived energy.
In both cases, the new rules only apply to new customers.
Supporters of the rule change — the state’s major electric utilities chief among them — argue that the new proposed rates, which vary over the course of a day, better reflect the actual value that rooftop solar panels provide to the electrical grid while offering a fairer shake to customers who don’t have the luxury of living beneath solar panels.
The new pricing system is also designed to encourage property owners to pair solar panels with batteries, which can store up solar energy in the middle of the day when it’s abundant and cheap and dispatch it when the grid needs it most after the sun sets and when the CPUC’s proposed adjusted rates are higher.
“Under these new rules I have pretty serious concerns that entire building electrification projects just won’t pencil out anymore.” — David Chanin, co-founder of FutureFit Partners
But a notably diverse coalition of California interest groups have banded together to argue otherwise. Landlords, tenant rights organizations, affordable housing advocates, environmental nonprofits and the building industry — which rarely all agree — now say that the policy would only “eviscerate” the multifamily solar market.
What’s more, they argue, the proposed change runs counter to a host of ambitious policy goals that California lawmakers have set out to combat climate change, air pollution and the affordable housing crisis.
“This proposed decision seems to go right in the opposite direction,” said Bob Raymer, technical director at the California Building Industry Association, a lobbying group that opposes the regulatory overhaul. “It’s nuts. I’ve been doing this stuff for over 40 years and this one is just baffling.”
Solar policy déjà vu
If this argument sounds familiar, a version has played out in public once before.
In December, the commission cut the payments that homeowners with rooftop solar arrays receive by roughly 75%. The decision came after months of debate, with both sides claiming to speak in the interest of clean energy and economic justice.
Previously, utilities were required to pay homeowners roughly the retail rate for electricity produced by a photovoltaic array and exported back to the grid. Utilities have long chafed at that arrangement, joining organized utility workers and even some environmental groups, in arguing that the more cost-effective way to supercharge clean energy production is to focus on utility-scale (read: big) projects. That’s opposed to the disaggregated fleet of photovoltaic arrays, found disproportionately on the homes of the well-to-do, who were able to skimp on the costs of grid maintenance and upgrades, effectively shunting that onto everyone else’s monthly bills.
The CPUC agreed with that argument and replaced that retail tariff with a much lower, adjustable fee.
That’s more or less what is being considered this time around for apartment building owners, but with one highly contested difference.
Even with these lower payments, single-family homeowners with solar can still boost the benefit of their array by using the electricity they generate on site. Every kilowatt hour “self-consumed” is a kilowatt hour that the homeowner doesn’t have to pay in high retail prices. That can add up to significant savings.
But under the proposed overhaul for apartment dwellers, no such savings would be allowed. All of the electricity generated would count as an “export” to the grid and get compensated at the lower wholesale rate. Likewise, all electricity used by the residents of that apartment building would need to be purchased from the utility at retail. For accounting purposes, there would be no“self-consumption” allowed.
For rooftop solar companies, the lack of a “self-consumption” provision for apartment buildings amounts to an existential threat.
Ivy Energy, a San Diego company that sells software to multifamily landlords hoping to offer their tenants solar power, argued to the CPUC that the rule, if adopted as proposed in August, “would eviscerate the economic value proposition” for multifamily solar “rendering all new projects infeasible and unfinanceable, and effectively result in a collapse of the multifamily solar market.”
Both the state’s major investor-owned utilities and the CPUC say that coming up with a way to account for self-consumption to apartment buildings, where different residents are using different amounts of electricity at different times and would require different levels of compensation, would be a technical nightmare to administer. They argue that it would be costly to build out, raises potential privacy concerns between renters and their landlords and would result in billing so convoluted that no resident could possibly use it to predict the cheapest time to run their dishwasher.
But just because such a system would be hard to implement doesn’t warrant upending the entire industry that has built itself up around the old system, said Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of the California Solar & Storage Association.
She pointed to the single-family solar market as a telling example. Since the new policy went into effect, she said, the number of residential solar projects in the pipeline has dropped at least 40%.
“But we’ve gotten ourselves in this situation where we’re almost touting the single family version” of the policy, she said. “It’s still not going to be a great thing, but at least it’s not sudden death. Which is what this is.”
In opposition: A big tent
As the CPUC mulled the decision over the summer, a disparate collection of interest groups flocked to the rooftop solar industry’s defense, but for different reasons.
Builders oppose anything that makes solar less financially attractive because the California Energy Commission, another state agency, now requires virtually all new residential construction to come equipped with solar panels.
Throwing a wrench into the economics of rooftop solar also complicates the statewide push to go electric, to the chagrin of property owners and the entire electrification industry.
“Solar is one of the biggest revenue streams for a landlord asking ‘Why should I invest all this money in a heat hump, a new hot water system?’” said David Chanin, co-founder of FutureFit Partners, a company that helps house and apartment owners make those investments. “Under these new rules I have pretty serious concerns that entire building electrification projects just won’t pencil out anymore.”
And while the overhaul for single-family solar users mostly directly affected homeowners, it’s apartment-dwelling renters who are likely to be most affected by the current decision.
The current system “really is the only mechanism we have for a lot of low-income people living in multifamily housing to get solar and clean energy,” said Andrew Dawson, a lobbyist with the California Housing Partnership, a nonprofit that advocates for affordable housing. “For electrification purposes, solar is really important to make sure that people’s bills don’t increase significantly.”
“As climate impacts like rising heat continue to increase, there is an ongoing need for grid independence.” — Andrea Barnier, Self-Help Enterprises
Other programs do exist to help lower income Californians go green. The state’s Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing program provides financial incentives for property owners to invest in new panels and is funded under a different formula. But that program’s coverage is patchy across the state, said Dawsom.
Andrea Barnier with Self-Help Enterprises, a low-income housing provider in Visalia, said only 15 of the organization’s 40 multifamily projects will be insulated from the policy change through that state program. For the remaining sites, and all future apartment projects, she called the new rule a potential “deterrent to all-electric design.”
In a filing with the CPUC, the state’s three investor-owned utilities note that multifamily solar is still a relatively rare phenomenon in California. At last count, just 217 residential facilities across the state make use of the program, along with 513 other mixed residential and commercial sites.
But with the state vowing to simultaneously turbocharge apartment construction, electrical vehicle purchases and the jettisoning of gas stoves and hot water heaters, critics say that while supporting distributed solar may not be vital now, it will be in the near-future.
“As climate impacts like rising heat continue to increase, there is an ongoing need for grid independence and alternate energy solutions from batteries during rolling blackouts and emergencies, so this also impacts our ability to develop resilient communities,” said Barnier.
A coming political dust-up?
It may only be a matter of time before this argument gets dragged out of the highly-technical and mostly overlooked corridors of the CPUC and into the broader realm of partisan politics.
In July, the California Democratic Renters Council, a coalition of tenant rights, pro-housing and environmental justice advocacy groups, sent a letter to the CPUC’s five commissioners. It decried the proposed regulatory change that “would force renters to buy all of their power from the utility even when it is generated on their own rooftop” and “discriminate against renters by not giving them the same fair treatment as single-family homeowners.”
Though many observers expect the CPUC to ultimately vote for the overhaul next week, the breadth of the coalition that has mobilized against it might be difficult for other state lawmakers to overlook, said Raymer with the building industry.
“From a political standpoint, if this gets passed the way it’s proposed, I think the Legislature will be right back in 2024 addressing this,” he said.
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That could leave the more than 100,000 renters who are still awaiting assistance from a program that stopped taking new applications more than a year ago officially out of luck.
The first warning sign came in the form of an email a staffer with the state Housing and Community Development Department sent out in early September to lawyers representing many of those same anti-poverty groups, which entered into a legal settlement with the department over the program earlier this year.
“As of July 31, 2023, the program had $128,940,473 in funding left for disbursement to applicants,” the staffer wrote in the email shared with CalMatters. The next round of payments would provide assistance to an estimated 5,521 households. But any money leftover “is unlikely to add enough funds to the remaining balance to support more than one additional” payment, the letter stated.
In other words, the program may soon be out of cash, though it’s impossible to say when.
In a statement, department spokesperson Pablo Espinoza did not dispute the contents of the email, but insisted that the program still has cash available for now.
“We have not run out of funds and we continue to evaluate applications that are eligible for funding,” he wrote. “The fact is that this was always meant to be a temporary emergency program, and funding is not infinite. It is unclear whether there will be sufficient funding to pay all eligible applicants,” he added in a subsequent statement.
That contradicts prior assertions made by the department.
In March 2022, Nur Kausar, then a spokesperson for the state housing department, told CalMatters that the program would “continue to operate until all complete applications received are processed and all eligible applicants have been paid.”
A Screenshot of California’s COVID-19 Rent Relief webpage. Image via the Wayback Machine on March 13, 2022.
A statement on the program website, since removed but stored on Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, included a similar claim: “All eligible applications received on or before March 31, 2022, for rent or utilities owed between April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2022, will be paid.”
The program was created to help struggling tenants cover rental debt accrued between the beginning of the pandemic and March 2022. The housing department has struggled to work through a backlog of unaddressed applicants and unresolved rejection appeals in the 19 months since.
Espinoza acknowledged those prior statements in his statement.
“This is an error that has been addressed and corrected with all stakeholders for some time now. We embrace this renewed opportunity to reiterate the information accurately,” Espinoza said.
According to the housing department, 92,713 Californians are still awaiting an initial decision on their request for financial assistance. Another 34,751 appealed a prior rejection. It’s impossible to say how many of these nearly 130,000 applications will ultimately be rejected.
The prospect of the state’s COVID relief fund closing out its accounts comes just as the last COVID-era moratoriums on evictions expire across the state. In Los Angeles and Alameda County, that’s led to a spike in eviction proceedings
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