Local Government

May 2018

Humboldt County Hires Former Arcata Branch Manager to Lead Library

April 2018

County Planning Commissioner Kevin McKenny Cited For Alleged Violations of the Federal Clean Water Act and Other Environmental Laws

County Appoints Longtime Deputy as New Public Defender, Following Period of Turmoil at Office

Busting Pot Farms From Space, Take Two: Supervisors (This Time) Approve Contract for High-Resolution Satellite Monitoring

(UPDATE: NOT YET) Busting Pot Farms From Space: Supervisors (MAY) Approve Contract With Company Offering High-Res Satellite Imagery to Assist With Code Enforcement

Auditor-Controller Taking Taxpayer-Funded Trip to Tahoe for Conference Days Before Leaving Office

Eureka Police Look to Beef Up Presence on Waterfront, in Parks; Starts Process of Hiring for New Ranger Position

Here It Is! The Series Finale of Eureka’s Educational and Entertaining ‘Get to Know a Zone District’ Feature

Supervisors Address Weed Tourism, Crime Laws and Auditor-Controller Drama During Busy Meeting

March 2018

Embattled Auditor-Controller Joe Mellett Resigns Nine Months Before His Term Ends

County Supervisors Ease Tax Burden on Weed Growers, Hire Attorneys to Sue Big Pharma’s Opioid Manufacturers

Eureka NAACP Scorns Arcata Councilmember’s Use of the Phrase ‘Lynch Mob’; Calls for Winkler’s Colleagues to Admonish Him

Here’s What People Had to Say About the County’s Comprehensive New Weed Ordinance, Including the Proposed Cultivation Permit Cap

County Supervisors Met Monday to Start Deliberating on Proposed New Weed Regs, Including a Permit Cap

Arcata City Council to Hold Mega-Meeting Next Week to Ask Itself Whether it Should Ask Voters Where They Would Most Like to See the McKinley Statue Moved To (Including Where it Is)

The County Accidentally Issued Incomplete W2 Tax Forms to More Than 1,000 Employees; Most Are Still Waiting for Their Corrected Versions

Two New Weed Stores on Eureka’s Fourth Street? City Council Set to Move Forward at Next’s Week’s Meeting

February 2018

Still Dealing With Declining Enrollment, Eureka City Schools Threatens to Sue Alder Grove Charter School

Digital Signs in Eureka? Whether You Love ‘Em, Loathe ‘Em or are Beyond Caring, City Government Wants to Hear From You

Arcata City Council Votes to Remove McKinley Statue From the Plaza

Auction Time! Humboldt County’s Annual Sale of Tax-Defaulted Properties is Almost Underway

‘You Are Sucking Us Dry’: Growers Descend on Supervisors Meeting to Protest Cannabis Fees, Taxes

(VIDEO) Eureka Police Department Mini-Documentary Asks: Do YOU Have What it Takes to be EPD?

County Asking Public for Input on Final Section of Humboldt Bay Trail, Connecting Eureka and Arcata

Supervisors Move to Create a Standing Committee to Address Homelessness; Will Consider Declaring a Shelter Crisis Later This Month

January 2018

With Controversial Project Heading to Board, Mercer-Fraser President Flew County Supervisor and Staff to Sacramento Event in a Private Plane

Sea Level Rise Will Mess Up Many Things: County Releases New Threat Assessment to Local Infrastructure

Supervisors Consider Modifying or Repealing County’s Ban on Raw Milk

Just ‘Cause Weed’s Legal Now Doesn’t Mean You Can Smoke (or Ingest or Vape) It In Public, Eureka Reminds You

Eureka Increases Amount Being Given to Squires Evictees as They Scramble to Find New Housing

MOVE OVER, GIMLET MEDIA: Eureka City Government is Podcasting Now, and It’s Podcasting HARD

City of Eureka to Vacate, Board Up Yet Another Squires Property, Citing a ‘Continuous and Flagrant Disregard’ for State Law and Tenant Safety

Planning Commission Approves Mercer-Fraser Rezone Request, Sending Proposed Marijuana Extraction Plant Project to Board of Supervisors

Water District Says Proposed Mercer-Fraser Marijuana Facility Threatens Health and Safety of Two of Every Three County Residents

Does Eureka Have Too Much Land Zoned Coastal-Dependent Industrial? Ponder Over the Penultimate Installment of ‘Get to Know a Zone District’

In Politically Rejiggered Eureka, John Fullerton and Jeannie Breslin Enter City Council Race

December 2017

Ring in the New Year by Preparing For Inevitable Disaster, County Health Department Suggests

WE SALUTE GREG BICKEL: Wheels Down for Aerial Deputy With Multifaceted Law Enforcement Career

City of Trinidad Issues Statement on Controversial Memorial Lighthouse Project

Recreational Weed Sales Start Monday Statewide; Here’s Where You Can Buy It Locally

WATCH: Master Thespian Miles Slattery, Eureka’s Community Services Director, Assembles Cast of Several to Explain His Department’s Recent Name Change

[UDPATE: Victim Wants to Press Charges] General Manager of Shelter Cove Resort Improvement District Resigns Following Alleged Assault

He Spent THREE DECADES in JAIL: Sheriff’s Office Salutes Sgt. Mitch Gratz on the Occasion of His Retirement

Supervisors Say ‘Thanks But No Thanks’ to Safe Drug Injection Program, and Other Highlights From Today’s Meeting

‘It’s Appalling’: McGuire Vents About State Weed Regs, Then Weighs in on Opioids, Homelessness and More in LoCO Interview

Yurok Tribe Decries Trinidad Lighthouse Move; Calls Civic Club Action Hasty, Culturally Insensitive

City of Eureka to Look at Big, New Subsidized Housing Projects on Myrtle Avenue and Fourth Street, and to Review Waterfront Development Strategy

The County Might Buy the Old Eureka Kmart Property and Put Three Government Departments Inside

Citing Cost, Eureka Calls Off Search for New Corp Yard Location, Possibly Jeopardizing Costco Expansion

The Eureka City Council May Soon Lease, Sell Waterfront Land for RV Park, Mixed-Use Hotel ‘Village’

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