November 2017

Democrats Divided: Assm. Jim Wood Officially ‘Admonished’ By Humboldt Progressive Club, Setting Up Prog-Versus-Establishment Wars to Come

September 2017

McGuire Bill Requiring Presidential Candidates to Disclose Tax Returns Heads to Governor’s Desk

Assm. Jim Wood Cautions Pro-Single-Payer Protesters Who Will Demonstrate at His Local Offices Tomorrow: Don’t Expect to Get Everything You Wish For

August 2017

Gov. Jerry Brown Commutes Sentence of Woman Serving 25-to-Life for 2001 Eureka Murder

July 2017

State Transportation Commission Raises Eyebrow at North Coast Railroad Authority Finances, Asks Perennially Beleaguered Agency to Prepare ‘Shutdown Plan’

March 2017

New Fiber Optic Line a Go! State Pledges $47 Million to Dredge Internet Up From the Sea, Thread Fat Pipe From Eureka to Redding

February 2017

Redwoods-Adorned License Plates are a Big Flop, So Far — If You Want to Change That, Act Soon!

December 2016

Gov. Brown Pardons Two Humboldters for Piddling Decades-Old Weed-Related Offenses

June 2016

New Weed Tax Coming, Maybe! Local Legislator’s Bill Passes Assembly With Bipartisan Support

May 2016

California Smoking Age Raised to 21 After Gov. Brown Signs Local Assemblymember’s Bill

April 2016

Bill to Help ‘Specialty Cottage’ Weed Growers Moving Through Legislature

January 2016

Proposed Law Would Require Caltrans to Keep Maps of Fiber-Optic Lines

October 2015

Caltrans on New Willits Bypass Lawsuit: ‘All Historical Preservation Laws are Being Followed’

Mendo County Tribes Sue Caltrans for ‘Knowingly Destroying’ Historic Sites During Willits Bypass Construction

July 2015

State Agency Cites Caltrans, Contractors for ‘Serious Violations’ Leading to Willits Bypass Collapse

SoCal Senators Get to Know the North Coast

‘Fish, Flows and Marijuana Grows’: Live-Blogging Senator McGuire’s Hearing Examining Impacts of Marijuana Grows on State’s Fisheries

June 2015

Look Out, Humboldt County Schools — Gov. Brown Signs Tough Vaccination Bill Into Law

May 2015

Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom to Talk Weed in SoHum This Friday

April 2015

Red Tape for Weed Grows? Water Board Seeks to Bring Sprawling Marijuana Industry Into State’s Bureaucratic Orbit

February 2015

Your Day in Ocean: Meet Senator McGuire

August 2014

Your Week in Ocean: Talking #HealthyOcean in Sactown

February 2014

Assembly Committee Holds Hearing on the $11 $6.5 Billion California Water Bond, Which is Coming Soon to Your Ballot

January 2014

MERCY! The Last Standing Boyfighter Submits to McGuire

BOYFIGHT, THE AFTERMATH: Or, the Wrath of Steinberg!

Lehman Bows Out of Senate Race; Arcata Democrat Endorses Sonoma County’s McGuire

December 2013

Field Poll: The State of Jefferson is Something That No One Wants

November 2013

BOYFIGHT II: The Rise of McGuire!!!

October 2013

Governor Signs Curiously Numbered Chesbro Bill, With Booze

On the Broke-Ass State of Jefferson: Meeting in Eureka Wednesday

September 2013

New State Law: Highway Bicyclists Get Three Feet of Personal Space From Passing Motorists

BOYFIGHT! Novato Mayor Pro-Tem Announces Challenge to Arcata’s Chris Lehman Vis a Vis the State Senate

Environmental Groups Applaud Coastal Commission Decision on Caltrans’ Safety Corridor Project

August 2013

Meet Your Next State Senator: Chris Lehman Announces, Basically Already Wins Bid to Succeed Noreen Evans

State Sen. Noreen Evans Will Not Run for Reelection

June 2013

Will the North Coast Marine Protected Areas Spark a War With Oregon?

March 2013

Wiyot Tribe Signs Gaming Compact With State

February 2013

An Early Peek at Sen. Noreen Evans’ 2013-14 Legislative Agenda

October 2012

Gov. Jerry Brown Appears to Do Something About High Gas Prices

August 2012

Confusion Hill Construction Worker’s Dumped Soda Lid Leads to $10,000 Fine, Intergovernmental Ess-Hitstorm

May 2012

State Budget Deep in the Brown

Assembly Votes to Make Things Difficult for Non-Immunizing Parents; Bill Author on KSLG This Morning