‘Push Pause’ on budget cuts The Humboldt California Faculty Association (CFA) has launched a community-wide petition calling on the broader HSU community (faculty members, students, staff, alumni, and Humboldt residents), to stand in solidarity with HSU faculty against budget cuts. It is our position that the administration should Push Pause on cutting classes or faculty…
California Faculty Association: Push pause on ruinous cuts at Humboldt State
As one of the largest employers in the community, HSU can and should do whatever it takes to maintain a full, steady, stable workforce to help the area’s economy survive COVID-19’s shutdowns.
Humboldt’s hidden crisis: food insecurity
Food for People, the food bank for Humboldt County, has been feeding hungry families in our community for more than 40 years. Normally in the Humboldt community, one in 10 people relies on our services. Because of COVID-19 and the associated economic crises, Food for People is now serving 40 percent more people – including…
Letters to the Editor, November 25, 2020
Manila’s shantytown Dear community members, We would like to alert you about and ask for your help in solving an environmental and humanitarian problem that is getting worse in Manila. As some of you may know, there is a growing shantytown located along the banks of Humboldt Bay along State Route 255 about a quarter…
How a dark money, grassroots greenwash badly backfired on Arcata
This column is a giant exercise in “we told you so,” and pulls no punches. So if that sort of thing doesn’t appeal to you, avert your eyes. The people of Arcata – and most specifically and sadly, the residents of the Westwood neighborhood – have been thoroughly bamboozled. Led by the nose into supporting…
John Corbett: We must acknowledge the history that got us here
Trinidad Rancheria, City of Trinidad, and the Settler Community. For the record I am a member of the settler community, (third generation Humboldter) and I have no financial relationship with the Trinidad Rancheria or the City of Trinidad. The Trinidad harbor was one of the few privately owned harbors in California. The history is that…
Letters to the Editor, November 18, 2010
Racial reckoning “Racial Reckoning with the Environment and Community MASS students” takes place Friday, Nov. 20 from noon to 4 p.m. via Zoom. Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/7274848553. Current Environment and Community Masters students have demanded and arranged a virtual meeting with faculty and administration to ensure the structural and interpersonal racism of the department is substantively addressed.…
Letters to the Editor: Election reflections change the complexion of our direction
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The Union’s 2020 election endorsements
Arcata is poised to make truly deep and substantial change, and emerge a better, more resilient town. With closed storefronts and deep cuts in city staff, the post-COVID recovery phase offers an opportunity to, well, build back better. And to put into practice some of the long-held progressive dreams that pre-pandemic status quos previously rendered…
Letters to the Editor, October 28, 2020
Winkler saved Arcata I was surprised to see Kevin Hoover dredging up our statue removal of several years ago in order to attack Michael Winkler (Mad River Union, Oct. 21). As I explained in my Dec. 25, 2019 letter to the Union which Hoover published but obviously didn’t read, Arcata narrowly escaped a potentially ruinous…