Will She Peek?
(Aug. 28, 2008) Editor:
I am sorry to have to tell you I will no longer be reading the North Coast Journal after having enjoyed it for many, many years.
Ever since the change of the guard in your paper’s editorship, standards have gradually slipped to a level which today I can only call abominable. I no longer consider the North Coast Journal a newspaper. To my eyes, all it is today is a fancy advertising pamphlet and event calendar.
The editorial and journalistic content of this once great newspaper are now no more than slanderous opinions and trivial stories. You have some nerve criticizing the Times-Standard for poor reporting on local issues such as the wildfires in the same issue where your headline story is a popularity contest between Arcata and Eureka, as judged by barflies and bums. For shame! I am no particular fan of the Times-Standard, but at least that newspaper actually reports the news!
So your editor has quit smoking, and his car blew a head gasket at Reggae on the River. Are these things in any way relevant? They certainly do not belong in a newspaper, not even on its editorial page. They belong in someone’s personal diary.
Run some real news for a change, preferably written by your own staff and not borrowed from the Sacramento News & Review. Or do you no longer employ any journalists?
Publish this letter or not, I don’t care. I will not even pick up the next North Coast Journal to see if you did.
— Petra Taylor-Vandormael, Arcata
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on the cover
Railroad!
Proposed lines ‘set rich blood a-tingling’ in early 1900s
Some Other Proposed North Coast Railroads
Choo-choo Fantasies
Exposing this east-west rail nonsense
seven-o-heaven
Undeterred Will
Will chides Andrew for lack of attention to detail and makes plans for his inevitable victory.
Today
Celebrating Life in Humboldt
lecture / 7 p.m. Garberville Presbyterian Church, 437 Maple Lane. Local author/historian Jerry Rohde continues his series of regional history talks. This week: Garberville. 441-2700.
Mechanical Menagerie
events / 8:30 p.m. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Whimsical all-ages animal-themed benefit for Nighshade Serenade. Music by Gunsafe, fire show, animal hijinx by Blue Angel Burlesque, bellydancing and silent auction. $10. E-mail megjclarke@hotmail.com. 832-8973.
NightHawk (classic rock)
music / 9 p.m. Cher-Ae-Heights Casino, 27 Scenic Dr., Trinidad.
Jim Wilde (jazz)
music / 7 p.m. Persimmons Garden Gallery, 1055 Redway Drive, Redway. 923-2748.
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