September 2024

LoCO INTERVIEW: Eureka City Council Candidate Thavisak ‘Lucky’ Syphanthong Talks About His Journey From Laos to America, Tells Us Why He Decided to Run, and Takes a Stand on Measure F

Former Auditor-Controller Karen Paz Dominguez Facing Up To $61K in Fines for Failure to File Campaign Finance Forms on Time

With $1.15M From Security National, Measure F is Now the Most Expensive Ballot Initiative in Eureka History

August 2024

Humboldt Progressive Democrats Endorse Candidates in Arcata, Eureka City Council Races, Urge ‘No’ Vote on Measure F

Eureka Will Have to Wait Two More Years Before it Gets Ranked-Choice Voting

Seven People Have Qualified for Arcata’s City Council Election

How Will the Collapse of the Jacobs Campus Deal Impact Measure F? It Won’t, Backers Insist.

EUREKA CITY COUNCIL RACE: Four Candidates Have Officially Qualified for the November Ballot

Security National Just Dropped Another $286K Into Measure F, Bringing Its Total Spending to Nearly $1M

Security National Has Spent $710,645 and Counting on Measure F, the ‘Housing for All’ Initiative

New Eureka Council Candidate Just Bought a House in Ward 2 and Changed His Political Party Last Week

July 2024

Humboldt County Supervisors Vote to Put a One Percent Sales Tax Measure on November Ballots

Want to Run For City Council in the Fall? Now’s the Time to Get On It!

June 2024

Is There a New and Mysterious Contender for Eureka City Council’s Ward Two Seat? In Facebook Post, Local Realtor Calls for Help Finding a House to Buy Specifically in that Area ‘ASAP’

March 2024

ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: Almost All the Votes Are Counted Now, and the People Who You Thought Were Winning Did In Fact Win

ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: About 6,800 More Votes Counted; Nothing Has Changed Except There Are Even More Ballots Left to Count Than Had Been Previously Supposed

ELECTION TALLY UPDATE: Assembly Hopeful Chris Rogers is Big in Sonoma. Will That be Enough?

IT’S ELECTION NIGHT! We’ll be Updating Here With Results and Pictures From Candidates’ Victory Parties, if We Can Find Any

YOU VOTE YET? If Not, Here Are Your Options for Doing Your Civic Duty Today and Tomorrow

February 2024

Gomez Campaign for County Supervisor Files Overdue Financial Disclosure Forms

CAMPAIGN $$$ ROUNDUP: Incumbent Supervisors Raise and Spend More Than Challengers; Gomez Campaign Refuses to Answer Finance Questions

April Van Dyke, Candidate for Superior Court Judge, on Her Upbringing, Racial Disparities in the Justice System, Why She Sued Her Former Employer and More

MORE ELECTION LIMERICKS! Is There Any Place in the World More Inept at Writing Limericks Than Humboldt County?

JUDGE RACE: Deputy District Attorney Launches Write-In Bid; Van Dyke Issues Statement on Her Facial Paralysis

Judge Kreis Granted An Extra Week to Respond to Formal Misconduct Investigation

5,500 Locals Have Already Voted in the Primary, a ‘Surprisingly High’ Early Turnout, Says County Registrar of Voters

Supervisor Forums! The KEET/League of Women Voters Debates are In the Books, and Here’s a Place for You to Catch Up on What Was Said

All Six State Assembly Candidates Set to Face Off in Blue Lake Friday Evening

ELECTION LIMERICK ROUNDUP! Here’s the First Batch of Political Poetry Sent to LoCO. We Tried to Be Forgiving.

Judge Tosses Suit From ‘Citizens for a Better Eureka’ Backers Accusing the City of Violating Elections Code

It’s ELECTION LIMERICK Time Once Again! Please Send Us Your Letters of Support For Local Candidates and Measures, But Only in the Form of a Limerick

Housing for All Backers (Meaning Security National, Really) Have Outspent Opponents by Margin of 163-1

January 2024

Security National Has Spent at Least $236,000 on the Pro-Parking ‘Housing for All’ Initiative So Far

Let the Debate Forums Begin! KEET, League of Women Voters Announce Schedule for Televised Supervisorial Candidate Forums

Governor Gavin Newsom Endorses Rusty Hicks for Assembly

Trinidad Rancheria Urges a ‘No’ Vote on Measure A, the ‘Cannabis Reform Initiative’

Hoopa Valley Tribe Endorses Measure A, the ‘Cannabis Reform Initiative’

December 2023

Yurok Vice Chair Frankie Myers Discusses His Assembly Campaign, the Power of Representation and the Unique Voice He’d Bring to Sacramento

Judge Denies Effort to Keep Measure A, the ‘Humboldt Cannabis Reform Initiative,’ Off the March Ballot

Assemblymember Jim Wood Endorses Rusty Hicks in Crowded Race to Be His Successor

BREAKING: At Re-election Campaign Launch, Judge Kreis Says Lawsuit Against Him Has Been Settled

The Spring Ballot is Set Which Means it’s Time for the Glorious Return of LoCO Elections, Your Q&A-With-the-Candidates Site

Stage Set for County’s March Primary Election: Five Challengers Face Three Incumbent Supervisors

Judge Gregory Kreis Announces Re-Election Campaign, Will Hold Rally at the Gazebo Wednesday

Third District Supervisor Mike Wilson Announces Re-election Campaign; Roy Gomez Running Against Him

November 2023

Yurok Tribe Vice Chairman Frankie Myers Declares Candidacy for State Assembly District 2 Seat

Santa Rosa Councilmember Chris Rogers Announces Campaign for State Assembly Seat

INTERVIEW: Rusty Hicks, California Democratic Party Chair, on How He ‘Fell in Love’ With the North Coast and Decided to Run for State Assembly

California Democratic Party Chair Rusty Hicks, Now an Arcata Resident, Launches Run for State Assembly Seat Being Vacated by Jim Wood

Proponents and Opponents of Measure A, the Humboldt Cannabis Reform Initiative, Square Off at a Public Forum in Arcata