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The campus of Cal Poly Humboldt has been shut down since Monday after students occupied a building to protest the war in Gaza. The university is now scheduled to be closed at least through the weekend.Police from multiple law enforcement agencies appeared on Monday night and arrested three students after a confrontation between students and police that ended with at least one student bleeding after being struck with a police baton. A brief video shows another student hitting police with an empty five gallon water jug as police in riot gear attempt to push through the protestors into the building.Yesterday, the Humbldt chapter of the California Faculty Association passed a vote of no confidence in the university president, Tom Jackson, and his chief of Staff, Mark Johnson.Lauren Schmitt, of KMUD news, spoke to student journalists who were concerned that university leadership was trying to prevent them from covering the protests. Students and faculty complain that the university is characterizing the protests as dangerous, and misrepresenting conditions in Siemans Hall, the occupied building.You can check out complete coverage at KMUD news.
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Local NewsTiny homes are getting some attention in Mendocino County, with the Board of Supervisors as well as the Fort Bragg city planning commission considering their regulations this week.
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Local NewsWith pension obligation bonds almost paid off, the Board of Supervisors plans to redirect funds to repay the $7 million it borrowed from Measure B to build the new wing of the jail.
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Local NewsThe Great Redwood Trail Agency has released a draft master plan for the northern portion of the Great Redwood Trail. There will be a number of community meetings for anyone who is curious but has not yet read the 600-page document, including one tonight from 5:30-7:30 at the Ukiah Valley Conference Center at 200 School Street in Ukiah. Lauren Schmitt of KMUD news reports.
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Local NewsAmy Goodman, the host of Democracy Now! was in northern California over the weekend to speak about the bombing of Gaza and the role of the media in times of conflict. On Friday, she addressed a packed crowd at the SPACE theater in Ukiah, and the next day she was in Berkeley to celebrate the 75th birthday of KPFA.
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Local NewsThe county Planning Commission approved a coastal development use permit for a controversial water project in the town of Mendocino at its regular meeting on April fourth. The project, a joint venture between the Mendocino Unified School District and the Mendocino City Community Services District, includes up to ten new wells and two large storage tanks that are supposed to meet the community’s needs in drought or fire emergencies. The new infrastructure will be located on school district property on Little Lake Road, just east of the intersection with Gurley Lane and a mile outside the center of town.
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Local NewsFort Bragg is in the initial phase of trying to get absentee property owners to take care of properties that are vacant most of the year, or for years on end. But a recent proposal by code enforcement, to require a registry of vacant properties, did not meet the approval of community members or the city council committee tasked with bringing a more fleshed-out proposal before the full council.
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