Really, in the age of 140-character tweets and 30-second elevator pitches, 99 words are plenty. (Nice try with those 100-word entries, by the way — oh, we see you.) In that space, the economical writer can do quite a bit: start an affair, skim rock bottom, destroy a planet, reveal a murder, construct a conspiracy […]
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OMG
Editor: I was enjoying B. Evans’ latest puzzle (Field Notes, April 11). Let me guess… LOL = “little old lady”; IMHO = “I must have onions” (presumably when you order your Whopper); FYI = “for your information” (that one’s been around awhile!); BFF = “big f*g f*t”. But then he went on to totally flummox […]
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Will the Arts Survive?
Editor: “Reimagining CR” (April 11) is a lighthearted way of describing the hatchet job going down at College of the Redwoods. What is really happening is a hostile takeover of the 112 Community Colleges of California. A unit is now $46, and student fees now pay more than half of the cost of a CCC education. Student debt nationwide is a ball-and-chain of over $1 […]
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Some Other Isom
Editor: Regarding the recent letter titled “Thanks NCJ, Sorry Isom,” (Mailbox, April 4) I would like to state for the record that I, John Isom, currently living in Eureka and previously in Petrolia, have nothing to do with this matter. At all. I have no dealings of any kind with anything called Isom Advisors in […]
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Uh, About that Majority
Editor: Re the majority/minority cartoon in your April 4 issue: I thought majorities/minorities were decided by elections, not by Joel Mielke. Susan Dodd, Eureka
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Music Matters
Editor: I discovered my love of music in a community college class over 45 years ago (“Re-Imagining CR,” April 11). I was not a music major. Since moving to Humboldt County in the mid 1970s, participating in music and musical theatre, often through courses at CR, has sustained me all of my adult life as […]
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Railroad(ed)
Editor: I attended the public hearing in Eureka City Council chambers on March 29 (“Political Reality 2013,” From the Publisher, April 4). Linda Atkins raised an important point about the process: Caltrans has these grants available every year. There was not the rush that David Hull insisted on. His mea culpa rang phony with […]
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Just loving that community organizer
Editor: Thank you for your enlightening cover story on “HumCPR Rising” (March 28) and publisher Judy Hodgson’s subsequent follow up on Lee Ulansey. I never knew Mr. Ulansey was such a successful community organizer who was able to bring so many diverse groups together for a common cause. It almost reminds me of that man […]
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Who is HumCPR?
Editor: Hurrah and thank you for Ryan Burns’ superb article (HumCPR Rising, March 28) that finally answers the question, “What is the real objective of this organization?” I think the Journal’s timing is spot on. If this expose had appeared before these two HumCPR foxes were appointed to the Planning Commission hen house, the article […]
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Journal Trickery?
Editor: Since the Journal’s high-piled righteousness dwarfs mere fairness, I can’t share many of my thoughts on Ryan Burn’s odd article about HumCPR, which implied that fundraising and candidate-recruiting is immoral if done by anyone but Mark Lovelace. (Where did you come from, Clif Clendenen?) Oh well. I’ll use my 300 words to play […]
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Money, Oh Money
Editor: Seems ironic that the 40 Days of Prayer campaign that you Blog Jammed about (“Local Planned Parent Labeled ‘The Worst,’” April 4) accused Planned Parenthood of being “driven” by money. PPs response to the campaign? A fundraiser. Dave Barry, Eureka
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Stop Cutting Health Care
Editor: “RNs picketing for patient care,” “safe staffing now,” “some cuts don’t heal” — these words haunt me. I have been complaining about this for years (“Picketing for Help,” March 21). The core of this issue goes back to March 16, 2011, when AB 97 passed the state Legislature. The bill created a 10 percent […]