While hindsight is 20/20, we could have told everyone involved with the proposed The Village student housing project at the outset that transparency was the best policy. It still is, even as the various stakeholders’ tendency toward secretiveness compromises the process of considering the project. It began with the project’s backers a year ago in…
Truant Trustee Dan Johnson Skips NHUHSD Brown Act Training
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union NOHUM – In an effort to improve compliance with public disclosure laws, the Northern Humboldt Union High School District (NHUHSD) Board of Trustees last week held a study session with an expert on the Ralph M. Brown Act. Enacted in 1953, California’s Brown Act attempts to ensure that public…
Lovell, Toste & Pigg Win High School Race; Silvernale Edged Out
Union Staff Report ARCATA/McKINLEYVILLE – Despite enduring a months-long scandal involving one of their board members who plagiarized a speech and then lashed out at those who dared to criticize him, two incumbents retained their seats on the Northern Humboldt Union High School District Board of Trustees. Incumbent Colleen Toste took second place in the race…
Jack Durham: Thinking Outside The News
The faces of the citizens of Arcata should again be flush with pride now that City Hall has launched a grand experiment – the placement of a public toilet near the Plaza. Hats off to the Arcata City Council for taking this bold move to provide a public privy for tourists and others who roam…
Mike Pigg: Reduce Class Sizes
Benjamin Fordham Mad River Union ARCATA/McKINLEYVILLE – For the better part of a decade, Mike Pigg has served on the Board of Trustees of the Northern Humboldt Union School District, a period that has been blissfully free of controversy. As he seeks a third term, Pigg hopes that he and the board are able to…
Dana Silvernale Wants Improved Communication And Lunches
Benjamin Fordham Mad River Union In an ongoing series, the Mad River Union is profiling the five candidates for the Northern Humboldt Union School District Board of Trustees. This week’s candidate is incumbent Dana Silvernale, a Special Education teacher at Mattole Valley Charter School. Amid the lingering controversy over Dan Johnson’s plagiarized commencement speech, Dana…
NHUHSD Board Demands Resignation, Johnson Offers Accusations
“What I hear people saying is that we either need to hear a sincere apology from Dan, or he needs to resign.” Her statement was greeted with applause.
Board wants Johnson to resign; embattled trustee lashes out at critics, staff, board member
With the festering scandal over a plagiarized speech crippling its ability to conduct business, and with the public demanding that action be taken, the local high school board voted Tuesday, Sept. 10, to ask Trustee Dan Johnson to resign. The 3-1 vote by the Northern Humboldt Union High School District (NHUHSD) Board of…
VIDEO: Dan Johnson's apology at the 9.10.13 meeting
Dan Johnson’s apology at the 9.10.13 meeting. He said more later in the meeting, but that’s not included in this video.
NHUHSD board votes to ask Dan Johnson to resign
With the festering scandal over a plagiarized speech crippling its ability to conduct business, and with the public demanding that action be taken, the local high school board voted tonight, Sept. 10, to ask Trustee Dan Johnson to resign. More than 140 people packed into the McKinleyville High School Multi-Purpose Room to hear the Northern…