Humboldt County’s news podcast: Humboldt Last Week episode 262: Jesse Eisenberg, dueling conduct reports, school lockdowns, shark bite, cannabis lawsuit, Cal Poly enrollment up, more
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In the latest episode of Humboldt Last Week
Documents obtained by Humboldt Last Week indicate Jesse Eisenberg is playing Sasquatch in Humboldt County, Arcata City Councilmember Brett Watson says he hired an investigator to reinforce his sexual harassment denials, a social media threat alarmed yet another local high school, a local shark bite victim smiled and threw the ‘hang loose’ sign from his hospital bed, a class-action lawsuit was announced as local cannabis woes continue, gas prices are too damn high, enrollment is up at Cal Poly Humboldt for the first time since 2015, the Oscar-hopeful short film ‘Eureka’ focuses on an oppressed prostitute right before 1885’s Chinese expulsion, a landlord known for housing Eurekans in questionable conditions died, Alan Bongio took a demoted ‘Planning Commission position following offensive comments, a sparsely attend anti-abortion event gets mostly angry and laughing reactions on social media, a nearby export became the first Native American woman to go to space, event suggestions, and more.
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Hi community I am writing this to notify you of the issues with lost coast outpost. Recently their reporting had become incredibly biased and untruthful. In the case of Elisha Hayes’s opinions being reported as news and her hiding the fact that the cash accounts for abatement have gone “missing” please help me pressure lost coast out post to stop spreading fake news and report them ..https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us
When I looked into missing cash payments from farmers, I couldn’t find a single person saying it happened to them. If you know differently, please let me know.
i know i was charged post permit approval by chad pasquini who is no longer employed by planning department. When I asked for a bill and an itemized list for what i was paying for and got an attorney the charge dissapeared ..i do still have the emails? .. Did you ever get the expenditure report for where the abatement accounts went?
Kym,
Are you only speaking of “missing cash payments”, (“that haven’t been confirmed”), from farmers, as far as cannabis permit fees and square footage taxes go?
Because, before there can actually be anyone, “saying it happened to them, pertaining to a “missing cash payment”, which would have been paid for the , extortive, unconstitutional, abatement fines, that were also collected, the County will have to have been required to return some, or all of it, before any record of accounting, or not, will even be necessary to find.
Hopefully it will happen.
It’s too early to tell if there will be an issue with slipshod accounting or missing or disputed payments…
Until the County is required to return any or all of those abatement fees, no one will know if they will have a problem getting the refund back they deserve, or if slipshod accountability will be an issue, and refunds will only be given upon request and presentation of a receipt.
Who will have to show the records of these payments?
The citizens?
Or the County?
When the County had to return overcharges in the past, in regards to a refund that the farmers were entitled to, the county didn’t simply go back to their “records” of payments, and issue refunds based on their records, like they should have.
The county had not anticipated having to return money.
They refused to make the necessary refunds, unless the people entitled to the refunds, filed a request…
No request, no refund.
Not cool.
Who kept the rest?
What happens when it’s an estate that is entitled to a refund? Will the county just keep it and distribute that amongst itself, if someone has died, and left noone living to present a receipt?
(It’s not like that sort of thing hasn’t happened in the past).
Just because there were no complaints that you found, doesn’t mean some people didn’t get their cash returned.
Somewhere there would have to be an accounting of money taken, and money returned, that balances out.
I don’t think that it exists, and it definitely hasn’t been shown.
That suggests a couple of things, the County did not maintain the appropriate records, and/or was refusing to make those refunds available, greedily, and in bad faith, unless those deserving of a refund had maintained records, and kept a receipt, and could present it.
The County would otherwise keep the overcharges, and not refund them.
Something tells me that for many cash payments, the handwritten receipts were the only records kept.
Receipt books could easily have gone missing, along with the cash represented.
And that is pretty suspect, and like it was later determined, it was inadequate accountability.
There has been no reconciliation, as far as cash payments to the County are concerned.
This has been identified as having a large potential for fraud.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
The “smoke” has been reported, and confirmed.
It’s time to find the “fire”.
It needs to be reconciled.
Right now, I believe Elisha Hayes, is the appointed, acting, interim Auditor/Controller, until Cheryl Dillingham, our elected Auditor/Controller, begins her elected term, so the responsibility to reconcile these payments, currently belongs to Elisha Hayes.
And Hayes isn’t saying much…
It’s all hush-hush again, just like it was before Paz-Dominguez…
Kind of odd, isn’t it???
Good idea. That and the CHP reports and I would never click on LOCO again. They have the worst, most biased moderator ( “Angie C”) that I have ever seen on any so called news blog
Angie C is one of the reasons I have a strong dislike for loco. Micromanagement.
LOCO went sideways when Angie took over. All the cool kids like cu2morrow left the comments section and found refuge here.
Brett Watson, poster boy for ruining the American Workplace for all those unfortunate persons possessing the dreaded XY Chromosome…
You boys (responsible married men don’t act like this at work, do they?), are an embarrassment to decent working people everywhere.
As far as this “Pod cast” and all others, I shouldn’t care to listen to the many plugs for “sponsors” or the narrative by commentators who know little about the subjects they cover…
I hope enrollment finally goes up a bit at *CAL POLY HUMBOLDT*, but they still have students living in vans, out in the street, cause they don’t have anywhere to park, either…
Diversity in hiring, BTW, means hiring equal numbers of males, and females. Men and women need to start getting along at work, in Humboldt and everywhere else…
Brett Watson will never serve in another Public Office in his county, no matter how incomprehensible his logic becomes…
Very nice landscape photo Myles! I think I recognize those guys.