North Coast Journal Reader

Editor: Kudos to Heidi Walters for her article (“In Karuk,” Oct. 27) highlighting the Albers family and their desire to teach their children Karuk. Kudos, too, to the Albers family and all the other Karuk and Yurok families trying to keep their languages alive. Languages are such an amazing part of our existence on earth. Communication is a […]

Editor: As a wildlife rehabilitator and wild bird rescuer with Bird Ally X, I was glad to read Heidi Walters recent piece “Murre Hard Times” (Oct. 27). As she describes, there have been a very large number of juvenile common murres dead, found recently on our region’s beaches. At several points between North Jetty and Trinidad, […]

Editor: Mr. Joel Mielke missed one in his “Collective nouns of Humboldt County” (Oct, 27):  A pretension of cartooning social commentators. John Anderson, Arcata

Editor: Re: “Kids Today” (Oct. 6) by Ryan Burns; Professor Nancy Vizenor came close to my own views by saying, “they’re not necessarily lazy, but they do want to have a work-life balance.” Kids today have been raised to accept payment in other ways than monetarily.  Rather than work to an early, ulcer-ridden demise, they’ve […]

Editor: I barely took a swig of your story “Beer in the Headlights” (Oct. 20) before my brain froze with an important question. Where were the female taste-testers? After my head thawed a bit, I decided to sip a bit more in an attempt to answer my question.  There it was, my answer: “Patrick Hawkins’ […]

Editor: It was great to see the Journal‘s story (“Already Occupied,” Oct. 13) on the local response to the OccupyWallSt.org movement. While Humboldt Tea Party members may not feel much affinity with the Occupy Humboldt members, I agree with your writer Zach St. George that “their members might find more in common if they paused to consider.” […]

Editor: I am writing in response to the “Already Occupied” article (Oct. 13). I would find it extremely unfortunate if Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party movements do not recognize that both movements share similar goals. Of course, each movement would have to put aside their differences on some issues in order to work […]

Editor: In Barry Evans’ excellent Oct. 13 Field Notes column (“Vive la Difference”) on gender and language, he notes that English generally “marks” or augments nouns applied to males to generate female counterparts. He provides examples such as heir/heiress and god/goddess and says he’s “hard-put to find a counter-example.” I can offer one: widow/widower. Richard […]

Editor: I just read Ryan Burn’s article entitled “Kids Today” (Oct. 6). He missed one reason I see for kids not taking jobs as seriously now as when I was their age. They make exactly the same amount of money. When I was in college I took temporary jobs and earned about $11 an hour. Students […]

Editor: Thanks to Ryan Burns (“Caged,” Sept. 29) for an insightful look at “media day” at Pelican Bay State Prison. However, it is worth perspective. We could be elsewhere. Consider Alan Gross in a Cuban prison for giving away laptops, the two Americans who spent two years in an Iranian prison for hiking, and, of course, Amanda Knox, appealing […]

I just read with huge disappointment that Charlie Myers will no longer be in NCJ Filmland (“Charlie Says Farewell,” Sept. 29). It is a sad day indeed. Since he began writing film reviews, I’ve been a faithful reader. It isn’t just the reviews themselves, which I have to say do mean a lot to me […]