100% Humboldt

Send us Fan Mail Knowing the hits is one thing; getting a crowd to care is another. Dustin Thompkins of The Undercovers joins Scott Hammond to explain how song selection, showmanship, and reading the room turn familiar music into a show people want to see. He also shares how band gigs and karaoke grew into a living in Humboldt—and why opening doors for other musicians matters to him. Support the s...

Send us Fan Mail Why did connecting Arcata and Eureka by trail take nearly 30 years? Jen Rice talks with Scott Hammond about hearing that trails would never happen here, bringing governments together, and learning to help communities shape their own plans rather than planning at them. From the Humboldt Bay Trail to community conversations in Fortuna and a proposed training circuit for outdoor rest...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to turn a boarded-off waterfront into a place people want to visit and care for? Former Eureka mayor Nancy Flemming joins Scott Hammond to reflect on Old Town’s evolution, her coffee-roasting business, and the community effort behind a more welcoming waterfront. She explains why small businesses need a voice in local government, recalls the effort to keep Coast G...

Send us Fan Mail What does good local journalism actually do for the people it serves? Senior News editor Ted Pease joins Scott Hammond to talk about a free monthly newspaper built around Humboldt’s stories—and why he insists it’s a newspaper, not a newsletter. Drawing on a career in reporting and journalism education, Ted explains how community coverage connects neighbors, why representation in n...

Send us Fan Mail Marty Coelho recalls leaving a late-night seafood cleanup shift, having his car hit by a train, and walking away without injuries. Now working in college advancement and the foundation at College of the Redwoods, he joins Scott Hammond to trace his path from teaching at Humboldt State to national fundraising work with Relay For Life. They discuss the student hardships he sees in s...

Send us Fan Mail You don't need a fortune to make a difference in Humboldt—and a local gift can keep helping long after it's given. Sara Dronkers, CEO of Humboldt Area Foundation, joins Scott Hammond to explain how more than 900 funds turn donations into scholarships, nonprofit support, and lasting investment in the region. From donors giving $5 a month to disaster response and the Klama...

Send us Fan Mail Humboldt needs more living-wage jobs, more housing, and a willingness to turn big plans into reality. Dan Johnson shares how he grew The Danco Group from an $8-an-hour start into a 600-person organization, why affordable housing and the redevelopment of Samoa matter, and how he chose to push through a housing-market crash rather than walk away from local vendors. He also explains...

Send us Fan Mail Lane DeVries traces his journey from a fourth-generation flower-farming family in the Netherlands to growing Sun Valley Floral Farms into the largest flower farm in America—and through the 2008 workforce crisis and years of struggle before its eventual closure. He and Scott talk about the cost of always saying yes, the faith that carried Lane through dark seasons, and why purpose...

Send us Fan Mail Don Chin has built a distinctly Humboldt life across comic books, real estate, and vinyl. He joins Scott Hammond to trace the path from growing up in Myrtletown and running a comic book business to a decades-long career in Humboldt real estate—and the record collecting and selling that came with it. Along the way, Don talks about his father, Ben Chin, Chin’s Cafe, growing up Chine...

Send us Fan Mail John Ford, Director of Planning and Building for the County of Humboldt, talks with Scott Hammond about how planning, permitting, and code enforcement work in a county shaped by cannabis, housing pressure, and community debate. They get into ADUs, complaint-driven code enforcement, the We Are Up project in McKinleyville, and the tension between growth and the desire to keep Humbol...

Send us Fan Mail Trails, housing, transit, and public art can take years of quiet work before the results become visible. Humboldt County District 4 Supervisor Natalie Arroyo joins Scott Hammond to discuss her eight years on the Eureka City Council, the projects that outlast election cycles, and what sustained public service looks like when change moves slowly. She also traces the path that brough...

Send us Fan Mail Anjali Browning joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about homeless services, applied anthropology, and the work of building capacity for local nonprofits in Humboldt. She talks about Arcata House Partnership, Project Roomkey and Homekey, housing work in Southern Humboldt, and what she is seeing among people with deep roots in SoHum. The conversation also touches on travel, loss...

Send us Fan Mail Maggie Kraft joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about the Area 1 Agency on Aging and the everyday work of helping older adults in Humboldt and Del Norte counties. She talks about how A1AA fits into the Older Americans Act system, why rural funding and transportation are constant challenges, and how volunteers, partner agencies, and local staff help stretch limited resources in...

Send us Fan Mail Leira Satlof joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about her path through Humboldt County, from Dell’Arte roots and Ferndale Repertory Theatre to food trucks, gardening, and her current work leading the Ferndale Senior Resource Agency. She talks about Meals on Wheels, transportation, medical equipment lending, healthcare access, community fundraising, and what it takes to help ol...

Send us Fan Mail Carol Jacobson joins Scott Hammond for a conversation about music, teaching, and the Humboldt community that shaped her life and work. She talks about leading the Eureka Symphony, teaching high school music, performing professionally in Europe, and finding her way back to the North Coast. The conversation also touches on Humboldt State, Arcata High, local teachers, choral-orchestr...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Barnum returns to the 100% Humboldt podcast for a wide-ranging conversation with Scott Hammond about Humboldt County’s past, present, and future. They talk about redwood, timber, housing, downtown Eureka parking lots, population growth, local development, and the long timelines behind building in Humboldt. Bill also reflects on family history, law, faith, identity, community,...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Richard Carvajal, the new president of Cal Poly Humboldt, sits down with Scott Hammond for a conversation about growing up in Humboldt, the mentos who changed his life, and what it means to come home to lead the university. They talk about commencement, the Cal Poly transformation, new degrees and facilities, athletics, community partnerships, internships, and the role Humbold...

Send us Fan Mail Claudia Lima talks with Scott Hammond about growing up in Julian, studying animal science at Cal Poly, working in wholesale lumber, and building a life in Humboldt County with her husband John and their family. She reflects on the timber industry, logging families, local healthcare, housing, jobs, Blue Lake, her painting career, and the people and places that make Humboldt feel li...

Send us Fan Mail Deanna Dick talks with Scott Hammond about growing up in Tahoe, coming to Humboldt State, studying Spanish and psychology, and following mission work and midwifery training from Canada and Southeast Asia to Australia and Nigeria. She shares how those experiences led her back to Humboldt, into midwifery, and eventually to Moonstone Midwives, while reflecting on home birth, hospital...

Send us Fan Mail Carol Ryder talks with Scott Hammond about growing up in Fortuna, studying first in nursing and political science, then finding her way into voice, opera, and teaching. She describes how a performance at Humboldt State changed her course, what she learned studying in Germany and at the Merola program, and how that work eventually led to the Humboldt Light Opera Company. It's...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Chino sits down with Scott Hammond to talk through a long Arcata run in restaurants, bars, and old-town buildings, from The Far Side Cafe and Abruzzi to the newly reopened Plaza Grill. Along the way he tells the story of coming west from Long Island, why he stayed in Humboldt after arriving sight unseen in 1979, and how he thinks about hospitality as a service, community, and...

Send us Fan Mail Toby Tullis talks through the winding path that brought him to Humboldt, from Bay Area roots and restaurant work to radio, digital marketing, and a life built around community. He gets into sobriety, parenting, spirituality, and the way this place changed how he things about work and home. It's a conversation about starting over, staying busy, and trying to keep a little room...

Send us Fan Mail Scott Hammond sits down with Solomon Everta for a conversation rooted in Old Town Eureka, local business, mutual aid, and the kind of community life that only makes sense when you’ve actually lived here awhile. Solomon talks about coming to Humboldt from East Bay, finding his footing through work and activism, and eventually becoming the owner of Eureka Books. They get into the re...

Send us Fan Mail Humboldt needs good jobs, a stronger tax base, and a plan that doesn’t depend on the next boom saving us. I sit down with Peggy Murphy, the County of Humboldt’s Economic Development Director, to get specific about what economic development really looks like on the ground: helping local businesses stay open, building a workforce pipeline, and making sure we’re not “buckshotting” ou...

Send us Fan Mail Tired of boom-bust promises that never land? We sit down with Eureka City Manager Miles Slattery for a frank, fast-moving look at what actually gets built, what stalls out, and how we change the rules so progress sticks. From a scrappy surf-kid past to a data-first public leader, Miles lays out how the Bay Trail moved from vision to miles of waterfront access—and how that same bia...