North Coast Journal Reader

Editor: I read with interest your revealing profile (“Congress: The Dating Game,” March 15) of multimillionaire congressional candidate Stacey Lawson, but I wasn’t planning to comment publicly until I read about her offensive voting record on the NCJ blog. Apparently she only voted four times during a five-year period in which there were 12 elections. […]

Editor: The divisions between church and state are ever more cloudy … and now, our medical care has its own church versus medical ethics?  (“Every Sperm is Sacred,” April 5.) We did allow St. Joseph’s to take over our General Hospital … and have been reaping the “benefits” ever since. Jobs have been lost, and […]

Editor: Since you don’t have a policy against publishing hateful attacks on individuals, please publish this letter, which inserts the Journal editor’s name in place of Richard Salzman from your last edition (Mailbox, April 12). If you think that because Salzman is a public figure, it’s OK to let Paul Hagen express his hate-filled allegations […]

Editor: I am a faithful and committed Catholic. When I came across Carrie Peyton Dahlberg’s article (“Every Sperm is Sacred,” April 5), I was prepared for yet another hostile or mocking treatment of the church’s position on sterilizations, especially with the Monty Python referencing title (a hilarious skit by the way). I was very pleased […]

  Editor: No one wants to believe that Ron LaValley and Sean McAllister would do anything dishonest and that their credibility would ever be questioned, (“The Yurok Grift,” April 12). Let’s take a look at the work they did for the snowy plover. About 10 years ago the county was threatened with a lawsuit if it did […]

Editor: Whoa. Such strong wording for a “news” article (“Dairy Diary,” April 12). Mr. Armstrong has always struck me as an intelligent, caring and passionate family man. That was a needless (and tactless) passage by Ms. Peyton Dahlberg. She condemns a concerned citizen whose family would have been affected by the proposed Arcata dairy to […]

Editor: Although obviously not a billboard (“Coors Blight,” April 12), in my opinion the biggest blight on the view of our beautiful Humboldt Bay is the pink monstrosity at the end of J Street, the Humboldt County jail. Driving (or walking, or biking) down J Street once offered one of the most beautiful views of […]

Editor: Your Tip Top Club ads (online) make it impossible for me to read your articles at work. Someone will think I’m reading Not Safe For Work material. Nothing against Tip Top Club. I’m all for supply and demand. Oh well.   Brian Saltikov, San Clemente

Editor: I just wanted to let James Floss (Mailbox, April 12) know that there are a lot of us “still here” who thrilled to his and Jerry Nusbaum’s starring roles in Terra Nova.  I occasionally see Jerry walking out at Arcata Marsh but, happily, no longer struggling with a loaded sledge. ?PAC Theatre of yore […]

Editor: I really enjoyed the March 29 Journal, cover to cover. The redevelopment article was top notch. But I got chills when I turned to page 39 and Field Notes (“Scott of the Antarctic: Glorious Failure?”). Great Scott! The photo brought back a flood of memories of one of the most marvelous theatre experiences I’ve […]

Editor: I am writing in response to your article/poll about what you call the “ugliest billboard” (March 29). What kind of thought process led you to write an article that demonizes good local businesses? Not only are you throwing honest, hard-working businesses under the bus, but you are attacking local children’s nonprofit organizations. You are running an ad for Mid City […]

Editor: I think that each of our cities ought to move on and sell bonds for redoing areas that are planned redevelopment (“The Death of Redevelopment,” March 29). This would need to be done in such a way that the state would not be able to touch the bonds. This would not be a tax, […]