Local Government

June 2019

ALL ON TAPE: Sheriff’s Office Rolls Out Body Cams For All Correctional Officers in the Jail

Arcata City Council to Consider Large, Low-Income Housing Development on Seventh and J Streets

City Council Set to Loosen Eureka’s Anti-Panhandling Ordinance After Its Constitutionality Was Called Into Question

MCKAY RANCH SUBDIVISION: Big Community Meeting in Cutten Tonight to Discuss Proposed 320-Unit Development Around Redwood Fields

The City of Blue Lake Is Trying to Build a Town Square, Possibly Equipped With Interactive Water Fountains

Got Brains and Time to Contribute to Good Governance? The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury Wants YOU!

Rio Dell City Government is the Latest Organization to Give the Terra-Gen Wind Power Project a Big Thumbs Down

KUMBAYA! For Once, the Arcata City Council Sees a Version of ‘The Village’ That All Its Members Can Get Behind

Humboldt Made is Officially Out of the Running; Eureka City Council Directs Staff to Negotiate Marketing Contract With Eddy Alexander

Rio Dell’s Downtown May Soon Have Three Weed Stores

County to Unveil New, ADA-Compliant Playground at Freshwater Park This Weekend

EUREKA MARKETING CONTRACT: Contrary to Previous Statements, the Humboldt Made Proposal was Received Late; City Vows Reforms to ‘Restore Public Trust’

May 2019

County Extends Public Comment Period for Humboldt Wind Energy Project

Now With a ‘More Adventurous’ Design, Sequoia Park Zoo’s ‘Redwood Canopy Walk’ Project is One Step Closer To Reality

Humboldt Wind Energy Project Proponents Give Presentation to Skeptical Crowd in Ferndale

‘The Trust Has Been Broken’: Eureka City Council Votes to Interview Finalists for $370,000 Marketing Contract Again, With New Set of Panelists

TODAY IN SUPES: Hemp Moratorium Reinstated

County Ag Commissioner Accepting Hemp Registration Forms Ahead of Moratorium Vote

Eureka City Council Will Consider Approving Pedal-Powered Tour Buses That You Can Drink Booze On

Will a Lapse in the County’s Hemp Moratorium Inadvertently Open the Floodgates for Industrial Cultivation?

‘The Village’ Housing Project Will be Back Before the Arcata City Council, Yet Again, on June 5

The Arcata Police Department Has a Few Suggestions for Sprucing Up the Plaza and Possibly Making it Safer

FOLLOW-UP: Citing Work of Review Panel, Staff Recommends City Council Award $370,000 Marketing Services Contract to Eureka Visitors Center

County Looks to Extend Moratorium on Industrial Hemp Cultivation While Developing New Rules and Regulations

As Eureka’s $370,000 Contract for ‘Marketing Services’ is About to Be Awarded, Text Messages Released by City Show Close Relationship Between City Official and Finalist

[UPDATED] Eighteen-Year-Old Elias Garcia-Munguia to Challenge Rex Bohn for Humboldt County Supervisor Seat

Dozens Gather at County Courthouse to Support Supervisor Rex Bohn Against Backlash Over Racist Joke

City of Eureka Selling Former Chamber of Commerce Building, Possibly to Hotel Developer

Arcata City Council Adopts Temporary Ordinance Banning Closure of Mobile Home Parks in the City

April 2019

City of Arcata Receives $400K Grant to Build Housing Units for the Homeless in Mobile Home Park

Eureka Mayor Susan Seaman Will Introduce a ‘Children and Families Mayor’s Initiative,’ Which is Still in the Planning Stages

Chalking Tires for Parking Enforcement Violates the Constitution, Federal Court Rules

Arcata City Council Rejects Yet Another Version of ‘The Village’

Desperate to Meet State Requirements, the City of Eureka is Developing a Plan to Create More Housing Quick

TODAY in SUPES: Crabbers Congregate; Bass and Wilson Pursue Coastal Commission Seat

Eureka School Board Votes to Sell Abandoned Jacobs Campus; California Highway Patrol Has Expressed Interest in Property

Eureka City Council Passes Ordinance Allowing Cannabis Smoking Lounges in the City

Eureka City Government Will Launch Initiative to ‘Revision and Revitalize’ 20/30 Park

March 2019

As Pressure From Neighbors Mounts, Eureka School Board Poised to Decide What to Do With Abandoned Jacobs Campus

Inside the Mind of Dean Glaser: Fortuna Councilmember’s Facebook Posts Are Even Nuttier Than His Call to ‘Put Down’ Drug Addicts

Supes Give Cannabis Farmers a Tax Break, But Statewide Overproduction Could Spell Doom for Many Growers

‘Justice For Josiah’ Advocates Demand Arcata City Council Turn Lawson Case Over to the State

YOU GUYS: Humboldt County’s Civil Grand Jury is Not the Grand Jury That Heard the Lawson Case

GOOD NEWS, POETRY FANS! Looks Like Eureka Will Soon Name a Poet Laureate or Two

Eureka City Council: Ordinance to Allow On-Site Weed Smoking, City Cannabis Equity Program on Tuesday’s Agenda

Trinidad Rancheria Will Give a Presentation on Casino Hotel Project at City Council Meeting Tonight

TODAY in SUPES: ‘Project Trellis’ — the Multipronged, County-Led Program to Assist the Local Cannabis Industry — Appears to be a Go

‘PROJECT TRELLIS’: The Board of Supervisors May Create a Government Funding Mechanism for the Local Cannabis Industry Tomorrow

The Fortuna City Council May Adopt an Ordinance to Restrict Needle Exchanges in the City

Rejecting All Offers on the Table, Arcata City Council Asks ‘Village’ Developers to Come Up With Yet Another Version of the Big Housing Project

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