North Coast Journal Reader

  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, […]

Editor: Thank you for Sean J. Kearns’ coverage of the large group from Southern Humboldt who went to Sacramento to advocate for restored funding for home-to-school buses (“School Bus Breakdown,” Feb. 9). The article showed what a massive undertaking the trip was, and also gave a good background to the underlying budget issues at the […]

Editor: Barry Evans, you have a way of twisting my dials and tuning out my comfortable senile static. Your article on copiers (“Not Your Father’s Evolution,” Feb. 2): bless you, we are all copiers and must be in order to sustain the status quo of progress. The better things become (ample food, shelter, peace, health, titillation, etc.) […]

Editor: Sometimes I read a poem that pulls at my breath, makes me bite my lips, put my hand to my heart– I want to be able to tell someone, to tell the poet, to have someone else be there in the poem with me. ? Monte Merrick’s poem, “pelican in the dunes,” (Feb. 9) […]

Editor: Um, excuse me, but what exactly do you mean (“Burlesque,” Jan. 26) by “She looks magazine fresh, more LA than Humboldt, despite the fact she’s been here six years?” Not all snaggle-toothed and barnacle-encrusted like the rest of us? Hey, if I hadn’t just about come to peaceful terms with my not-too-badly-decayed degree of […]

Editor: I’d like to comment on Rees Hughes’ article (“Walk on the Wild Side of 101,” Jan. 19), and to commend Stacey Becker for her response (Mailbox, Jan. 26). I’m thankful that Mr. Hughes at least said, “rail to trail or rail and trail.” To those who wrote opposing the rail I would say the […]

Editor: Honey, bring me my fan. I am feeling a bit flushed … reading about our local burlesque (“Burlesque,” Jan. 26). … Oh my … oh my. …  Great writing, by the way … a fun read. Nan Abrams, Eureka   Editor: The Ooh La La Girls (www.theoohlalagirls.com) were — starting in the summer of […]

Editor: Heidi Walters’ article “New Direction” (Jan. 19) talks compassionately about all sorts of trash: the kind generated by the community’s less responsible or able homeless people, trash left by the occupiers of bushes, marshes and forests, trash left by the Occupiers of the Eureka Courthouse … how society may treat people like trash when […]

Editor: Rees Hughes makes a mistake by assuming all rail travel is more expensive than trails in “A Walk on the Wild Side of 101” (Jan. 19). The problem is a matter of the weight of the vehicle exerting forces on the track. Speeders, hand cars, and rail-cycles do not weigh as much as a […]

Editor: The story written regarding the differences between large company debt and individual debt treatment (“The Debt Divide,” Jan. 19) was educational and very saddening. I was particularly stunned by Mr. Brian Mitchell’s statement regarding the people who reside at Security National’s trailer park … that it’s housing for “the working class.”  What the hell […]

Editor: Bravo to Rees Hughes (“Walk on the Wild Side of 101,” Jan 19), for returning to the stalled issue, for walking it and writing it, and to NCJ for printing it. So, there’s a safer route that exists for the public not driving gas-powered vehicles along “The Corridor.” So, the Railroad Authority and parties […]

Editor Kudos for an excellent article written by Ryan Burns (“The Debt Divide,” Jan. 12). It is not a “Get Arkley” piece but rather an accurate analysis of the replacement of the human and moral values that have served this country so well with greed and avarice. The American dream of owning one’s home has turned into […]