North Coast Journal Staff

Editor:  In Mark Larson’s article “High Water and ‘Old Boys’ at the Trinidad to Clam Beach Run” (Feb. 13), he states that Vince Engel set the Humboldt State University record in the “880 meters.” He didn’t. My husband Pete Haggard (who, by the way, co-writes a column with Jane Monroe for the NCJ) set the […]

Editor: I enjoyed reading the recent “Field Notes” by Barry Evans on Jared Diamonds’ Guns, Germs and Steel (Feb. 6). Reminded me of reading it 25 years ago. The deep history of humans expanding around our planet over tens of thousands of years, reaching the climate calming period of the Holocene and agriculture, developing cities and […]

Editor: Anti-vaxers are like drunk drivers, maybe worse (Mailbox, Jan. 16). Both anti-vaxers and drunk drivers think that what they want to do is more important than other people’s lives. Many drunk drivers acknowledge that drunk driving is wrong. But they delude themselves: “But I’m not drunk” or “I can handle it.” Anti-vaxers don’t even admit they’re doing wrong. Some get […]

Editor: In asking how 300 people could be wrong in their support of another elite retirement community in McKinleyville, I’m reminded of the 77 million that just voted to put billionaires in charge of national policy (the advertisement for Life Plan Humboldt, Feb. 13). Any institution, small business or “nonprofit” accessing public resources and subsidies […]