SoHum E-Bike Entrepreneur Featured in NYT

by North Coast Journal Staff on August 7, 2020 at 9:31AM

Alder Bay Administrator Did Not Know Possible Source of Facility's COVID Cases Before Bloomberg Column, T-S reports

by North Coast Journal Staff on July 31, 2020 at 6:48PM

Column Quotes HumCo Nurse Tying Fatal COVID-19 Cases to Meth Dealer who Refused to Isolate

by Thadeus Greenson on July 30, 2020 at 4:28PM

The strain of COVID-19 infection that ultimately killed four residents at Alder Bay Assisted Living reportedly started with a methamphetamine dealer who dismissed public health’s advice and refused to isolate himself, Humboldt County Public Health Nurse Erica Dykehouse reportedly told famed author Michael Lewis, who was penning a column for Bloomberg. Lewis’ column, “Confessions of a California COVID Nurse,” focuses on Dykehouse’s contact tracing investigations, in which she works backward from a positive COVID-19 test, trying to find everyone the new positive case may have exposed to the deadly virus.

Sinclair TV Stations Peddle Debunked COVID Conspiracy Theories

by Thadeus Greenson on July 25, 2020 at 4:32PM

UPDATE: While the controversial America This Week segment had been slated to run on KAEF's 11 p.m. broadcast today, Sinclair has decided to hold it for further review, according to North Coast News' Nazy Javid. "Our parent company further reviewed this week's planned episode of ATW and has decided to delay its airing for one week," she wrote in an email.

Film Crews Coming to Humboldt with COVID-19 Protocols

by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on July 15, 2020 at 6:08PM

At the end of June, the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commission announced Humboldt was back open for the movie business. And while screens at movie theaters have once again gone dark in California, a pair of small production crews are set to film for a week each on the North Coast this month, with more scheduled for fall.

McGuire Introduces Bill to Protect Press Covering Demonstrations

by Kimberly Wear on July 14, 2020 at 6:41PM

North Coast state Sen. Mike McGuire has introduced legislation to protect members of the media covering protests and marches, citing instances of journalists being injured or detained during recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations. SB 629 would make it a misdemeanor for law enforcement to intentionally obstruct, detain, assault or otherwise prevent the press from covering such events, according to a news release from McGuire’s office.

Rep. Huffman to Host Town Hall on Climate Crisis Action Plan

by Kali Cozyris on July 12, 2020 at 12:46PM

Congressman Jared Huffman will host a virtual town hall on the newly released Climate Crisis Action Plan. On Thursday, July 16 at 4 p.m., Rep. Huffman will be joined by former State Senator Fran Pavley and President and CEO of Natural Resources Defense Council Gina McCarthy. Viewers can submit questions in advance to huffmanQandA@mail.house.gov or ask them live via Facebook live.

Barriers to Care: Why Humboldt's Latinx Population is Being Hit Disproportionately Hard by COVID-19

by Iridian Casarez on July 12, 2020 at 10:01AM

“With the decline of service industry jobs, we are looking at additional financial, economic and housing barriers to families that may not be able to access state and federal benefits or safety net programs due to their documentation status,” Kein says. And the disease and reverberating impacts have only exacerbated existing inequities, as Kein notes that some of the families her program serves are “mixed-status” families — families that have documented and “questionably documented” people in their households — and thus may have been left out of the federal stimulus funding measures and don’t receive other benefits.

Humboldt Area Foundation Launches Project to Support Local Media

by Iridian Casarez on July 9, 2020 at 6:52PM

Humboldt Area Foundation and its affiliate Wild Rivers Community Foundation has invested $35,000 in a pilot project to help support local media in a new pilot project called the Community Voices Coalition that will generate "truthful, courageous and equitable stories covering vulnerable and traditionally underrepresented communities affected by the coronavirus in Humboldt, Trinity, Del Norte and Curry counties." The North Coast Journal and Access Humboldt will be participating in the pilot project.

New Streaming Link for Humboldt County Budget Hearing

by Iridian Casarez on June 15, 2020 at 2:10PM

Due to construction at Access Humboldt, there's a new link to view today's Humboldt County Budget Hearing.