Articles by Hank Sims
April 2020
ELECTION MAPS! See Which Neighborhoods Voted for Who For Supervisor and President, and Also How They Voted on a Couple of Tax Measures
Coalition of Local People Working for Equity Denounces Tradesman Wearing Racist T-Shirt in Viral Facebook Post, Offers Tips for What to do When You Witness Hate
(VIDEO) Sheriff Honsal Talks About (Slowly) Reopening the Economy in His Latest Round of Responses to Reporters’ Questions
All But Five of Humboldt’s 52 Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Have Recovered, Says County’s Joint Information Center
In Today’s ‘COVID Minute,’ the Manager of the County’s Public Health Lab Takes Us on a Short Tour of Its Operations
(VIDEO) Hundreds of People Descend on Bayshore Mall to Seek Help at Food For People’s Emergency Distribution Event This Afternoon
Humboldt County’s Census Efforts Undermined by Pandemic; With Stakes High, Locals Urged to Proactively Get Themselves Counted
March 2020
North Coast Businesses Owners! Here is Your One-Stop Site With Advice and Resources to Help You Through the Crisis
Looking to Be Helpful? Do the Easiest Thing You Can Do – Give Blood
(VIDEO) Humboldt County’s Public Health Officer Takes Media Questions on COVID-19
Beachgoers, Beware: National Weather Service Warns of High Potential for Sneaker Waves This Weekend
Still Confused About Humboldt County’s Shelter-in-Place Order? Here’s an Overview, in Broad Strokes
‘We’re Trying to be the Center of Calm’: A Q&A With Nurse Randee Litten, Who is on the Front Lines of Humboldt’s COVID-19 Response
FOOD HERO ROUNDUP: Here is an Updating List of Humboldt County Dining Institutions That are Getting Creative
Board of Supervisors to Consider New Sick Leave, Temporary Telecommuting Policies for County Employees at Special Meeting This Afternoon
(UPDATING) Eureka City Schools Reconsider, Decide to Shutter; Now All Major Humboldt County School Districts Have Canceled Classes
BREAKING: Northern Humboldt Union High School District Closes Schools Next Week ‘Out of Preponderance of Caution’
United to Cut One of its Two Flights Between ACV and Los Angeles Next Month, Reportedly Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
(VIDEOS) Eureka Resident Among Those on the Quarantined Grand Princess Cruise Ship Now Docking in Oakland
ELECTION DAY TIPS! How to Vote, and How to Understand Those Election Night Reports as They Come In
February 2020
INTRODUCING: The Lost Coast Outpost CLASSYFieds! Classified Advertising For the Humboldt County Masses!
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Community ‘Not at Risk,’ Says County Public Health Officer in Interview With the Outpost
(UPDATE) Home Where Last Night’s Eureka Homicide Occurred is On Fire This Morning
One Person Arrested After Disturbance at Democratic Headquarters in Eureka This Afternoon
(PHOTOS) Yesterday’s Crashed Plane Has Been Successfully Lifted out of the Mud of the Bay: A Capt. Zippo Photo Essay
SO PROUD! The Outpost’s Freddy Brewster Has Been Honored With the Society of Professional Journalists’ James Madison Freedom of Information Award
(UPDATE: PHOTOS) A Cessna Crashed Into Arcata Bay This Morning; Pilot Extricated Himself, Called 911, Has Been Rescued
Caltrans Proceeding to Cut Down Some Eucalyptus Trees in the Eureka-Arcata Safety Corridor
January 2020
After Coastal Commission Objects, Caltrans Agrees to Short Moratorium on Eucalyptus Removal in the Safety Corridor
Once Again, Kneeland is Not Your Winter Wonderland; School Superintendent Passes on ‘Gentle Reminder’ That Trespassing is Illegal
(UPDATES) Thursday Weather: Chains Required on Highways 36, 299; Big Power Outages in Southern, Eastern Humboldt
Weather Closes 199 Between Crescent City and Gasquet
PREPARE for HAIL! National Weather Service Warns of Strong, Wet, Cold System Incoming
Fire Breaks Out in Duplex Near the Humboldt County Library
Last-Minute ‘No War With Iran’ Rally at the Courthouse This Evening
Eureka’s Union Street Closed After Driver Plows Into Power Pole, Flees on Foot
December 2019
TIPSY TOW: You Shouldn’t Drink Without a Safe and Sober Ride Home Tonight, But if You Blow it There are Options
NON-EMERGENCY: That Unholy Caterwauling of Sirens and Mass Police Presence That’ll Hit Eureka Any Minute Now is Naught but ‘SHOP WITH A COP’
WEATHER ALERT: Get Ready for Big Wind (Soon) and Big Rain (Tomorrow)!
Rep. Huffman on Impeachment: ‘I Stand With Our Constitution, the Rule of Law and our Democracy’
(PHOTOS) Crash Near the Eureka Slough Bridge Sends One Car Into the Water; Traffic Slow on Northbound 101
November 2019
(UPDATE) Stabbing on Bayshore Way in Eureka Just Before Noon; One Person Transported to the Hospital
Health Department Shutters Rita’s in Eureka After Fourth Food Safety Inspection This Month
INTRODUCING: Interested in Your Gastrointestinal Health? With INSPECTED, the LoCO Gives You a Handy, Dandy, Up-to-Date Interface Into Restaurant Inspections From the County Environment Health Division
Will Possible Power Shutdown This Week Hit Humboldt? Probably Not (But Maybe), and Here’s Why We Think That
A Whole New Broadway Through the Eureka Waterfront Greenbelt? It’s Still an Option, Say Project Planners
October 2019
What to Believe? Here’s the Best We Can Come Up With Currently
OK! Now We’re Looking at 9 P.M. or Thereafter, With an ‘All-Clear’ Tomorrow Afternoon (Though the Blackout Will Last Longer)
(UPDATES) MORNING WHALE UPDATE: The Samoa Whale is Still Stranded, but Still Alive
(UPDATING) One In Custody Following Insane Three-Car Crash on Broadway This Afternoon; Expect Delays!
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