North Coast Journal Reader

Editor: Thank you for your interesting and insightful article (“Congress: The Dating Game,” March 15). Although the Democratic candidates have a number of similarities, I was struck by their differences, not only in terms of style and experience, but also emphasis and world view. Our challenges are huge and we need leaders with vision, guts […]

Editor: Shame on you, Richard Salzman (Mailbox, “Anoint Susan,” March 22). You told me you wouldn’t do that again and then you went and did it. You agreed that there was a question of ethics, and yet you done went and did it again. You wrote that long letter filled with your reasons to vote […]

Editor: On the afternoon of March 1 the Big Daddy of the Arcata Economic Development Corporation, Ross Welch (“Default Lines,” March 15), entered Plaza Design in Arcata, placed his hand with authoritative display upon the counter near the manager (my wife) Tracy and announced in a reportedly loud, aggressive tone in the middle of a […]

Editor: As your thorough overview of the upcoming congressional election pointed out (“Congress: The Dating Game,” March 15), this is a race for two spots on the November ticket. As the title you assigned to Jared Huffman, “The Anointed One,” suggests (and polling has confirmed), he will win one of those two spots. So the […]

Editor: If Marcy Burstiner’s daughter really has a message that she wants to disseminate to the masses (“Take the Money and Run With It,” March 1), there isn’t a damn thing a decision of the Supreme Court can do to stop her. All she needs is a Twitter account. Twitter rivals the printing press as […]

Editor: Please let the article on Clarke Historical Museum (“Fight at the Museum,” March 8) be the first in a series. The problems at the Clarke are not with the staff, they are with the board of directors’ inadequate efforts in carrying out their responsibilities for everlasting protection of extraordinarily important collections. In 1998 there […]

Editor: Regarding the March 1 cartoon entitled “Sightseeing” by Joel Mielke, it seems to me that he has an issue with Eureka. Why does he not use his big boy words and express himself instead of “crapping” on our city? Eda Bachrach, Eureka    

‘Going’ Great   Editor: I just read “Going Once” (March 1). Congratulations. What excellent, multi-layered journalism, so badly needed! Having a background in public-interest journalism and corporate accountability work, I greatly appreciate your thoughtful approach to the difficult issue of home foreclosures. Routine news stories — and the standard rhetoric from politicians — fail to […]

Editor: I am enthusiastically in support of the Occupy Movement (“Concrete Activists,” Feb. 16). Occupy Wall Street has fundamentally shifted the nature of public policy discourse. Finally, the focus is on the super rich who are killing the poor and devastating the middle class. I have become increasingly disturbed by the tactics of Occupy Eureka. […]

Editor: Interestingly enough the connection to world politik, American cultural complacency and widespread public ignorance could not be more clear. A battered Occupy movement now relegated to tabling in front of a courthouse. I guess the anti-Occupy won. The silent majority spoke, within their designated lines a few Fridays ago, as well as in the local […]

Editor: After reading Zach St. George’s article “Burned by the Wait” (Feb. 23), I was struck not so much by the contents of the article, but by the glaring omission of any consideration of the actual cause of Ms. Thompson’s and 10 other individuals’ abrupt trip to homeless status. What concerns me is the author’s […]

  Editor: It made me laugh to read “The Runner’s Lament” (Feb. 16) by Amy Cirincione, with many of my own thoughts as a runner. She also was able to create a decent list for “Running for Haters.” If you are dragging yourself out of bed to run or finding excuses to not run after work, […]