Local Native Teens Win Big at Youth Business Competition

By Iridian Casarez on June 10, 2022 at 6:59AM

Local high school students won big at a youth business competition at the Reservation Economic Summit (RES) produced by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) last month in Las Vegas. As part of a program through Two Feathers Native American Family Services, Emma Sundberg, a Wiyot junior from McKinleyville High School, Jordan Brown, a Karuk junior from McKinleyville High, Ryan Ames, a Yurok senior from Hoopa High and Claire Patterson, a Karuk sophomore from El Dorado High in Placerville, submitted a business proposal to the RES youth business competition.

SECOND UPDATE: Sheriff's Office Issues 'All Clear' in Bomb Threat Investigation at Loleta Elementary School

By Kimberly Wear on June 9, 2022 at 1:04PM

SECOND UPDATE: Humboldt County Sheriff's Office report an "all-clear" was issued in the Loleta Elementary School bomb threat investigation, saying no explosive device located.

Back to the Beach: Kids Ocean Day 2022

By Kimberly Wear on June 2, 2022 at 5:10PM

Hundreds of Humboldt County school children participated in this year's 17th annual Kids Ocean Day event by helping to restore dune habitat at the Mike Thompson Wildlife Area on the South Spit of Humboldt Bay. To mark the day, the kids joined together with their classmates, teachers and volunteers to form the shape of three ochre sea stars and the message, "Restore Joy," which was captured from the air by photographer J Patrick Cudahy with the help of pilot Mark Harris.

Reparations Could Include Tuition, Housing Grants, California Task Force Says

By Lil Kalish/CalMatters on June 1, 2022 at 12:35PM

California’s reparations task force will release today its first of two reports detailing the state’s history of slavery and racism and recommending ways the Legislature might begin a process of redress for Black Californians, including proposals to offer housing grants, free tuition and to raise the minimum wage. The 500-page study describes decades of state and federal government actions that harmed Black Americans — from American slavery to the more recent redlining, mass incarceration, police actions and the widening wealth gap between Blacks and whites.

Cal State Raises Issue with Cal Grant Expansion

By Mikhail Zinshteyn/CalMatters on May 27, 2022 at 11:16AM

The campaign to expand free tuition to more low-income California students has been riding a wave of unanimous goodwill, despite its large costs. But the state’s — and nation’s — largest public university system has made public its concern that key trade-offs required for that expansion will be a financial burden for some middle-class students. 

The Great Culling: Which California Bills did Legislators Kill?

By CalMatters on May 20, 2022 at 1:28PM

California lawmakers won’t be creating a state Election Day holiday this year. Nor will they be providing grants to local governments to convert public golf courses into affordable housing, or forcing health insurers to cover fertility treatments.

Cal Poly Humboldt Honors Betty Kwan Chinn During Commencement

By Thadeus Greenson on May 16, 2022 at 5:46PM

Who’s Missing from California’s Community Colleges?

By Emma Hall, Emily Forschen, Emily Margaretten and Oden Taylor/CalMatters on April 29, 2022 at 3:49PM

California community colleges have seen their enrollment drop by about a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 300,000 fewer students enrolled in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019.  “This raises critical concerns about equitable access to higher education as well as the ability to meet workforce needs,” said Paul Feist, vice chancellor of communications for the California Community College Chancellor’s Office.

COVID Outbreak Strands NoHum Students in Rome, Milan

By Thadeus Greenson on April 22, 2022 at 6:43PM

By the time the group was leaving France, Torres said students were asking for COVID-19 tests. “Kids were demanding to get tested because they were hella sick,” she said.

USA TODAY Highlights Case of HSU Dean Fired for Harassing Colleagues but Allowed to 'Retreat' into Tenured Post

By Kimberly Wear on April 18, 2022 at 3:31PM

USA TODAY published a two-month investigation into the case of a former dean at now Cal Poly Humboldt who was given a tenured professorship under what's known as "retreat rights," even though he was fired from his administrative role in 2016 after campus investigations found he had groped two female colleagues. A CSU spokesperson told USA TODAY that the vast majority of those who use the "retreat" clause are "dedicated and talented individuals" who decide to return to the classroom for one reason or another after a time in administrative roles but stated there are "rare exception," including Lee's, in which an administrator violates campus policy, is removed from their post and then goes back to teaching.