North Coast Journal Reader

Editor: Last week’s “Town Dandy” (Jan. 29) was yet another example of why I shield my children from the local weekly in our town. Your verbal masturbation in place of balanced commentary created an impression of us v. them. It’s an easy out for you to quip, in your fanciful word dance, about taping shut […]

Editor: Wow. It must’ve been a slow news week if you are reduced to running nearly a full page of content to a “story” about a local guy trying to sell an Obama business card for hundreds of dollars (“The Change Card,” Jan. 22). This is the sort of item that might warrant a one-sentence […]

Editor: I must commend Mr. Sims on his colorful wit and vivid imagination, reflected in the Town Dandy piece (Jan. 15). We love to hate that Railroad Tycoon that now “runs the NCRA,” and finally “came clean” about using the tracks that run through Supervisor Clendenen’s “domain”! (Sounds like a B western movie plot!) I […]

Editor: Marcy Burstiner recently made some comments that questioned the inclusion in the Times-Standard of an editorial page that was a remnant of the defunct The Eureka Reporter (“Media Maven,” Jan .1) A reader passionately disagreed with Ms. Burstiner (“Mailbox,” Jan. 8). While my own stridency sometimes disqualifies me from reasonable discourse, I must offer […]

Editor: Most of the thick nonsense started with the HKA suit (“Hobart’s Children,” Jan. 22). Hobart was heavily medicated at that time. A mysterious Ferndale woman had a bigger picture in mind. Will it turn out in her favor in the end? ’Cause the drama is not over yet. No chance Hobart would have initiated […]

Editor: Thank you, Seth Zuckerman, for putting your finger right on it (“Bond Freeze,” Jan. 15). Water and park bond funds are economic stimulus, infrastructure development and training. Those dollars support local vendors and contractors, improve ecosystem health and public access, extend scientific understanding and educate the public about the world we live in. A […]

Editor: I must take issue with the letter in the Jan. 15 edition about the Journal’s Dec. 25 cover story, “Saving Sam.” The letter-writer expressed her being upset that the Journal had “decided to undress Sarah Price so publicly.” She said the article by Heidi Walters was “an intrusive move.” And she complained about the […]

Editor: This is the second cartoon you’ve published regarding the mental capacity of Winco shoppers (“Contraceptive Programs,” Jan. 15). I think it is rude and very unjournalistic. I am a Winco shopper. The employees are kind and considerate. The prices are excellent. What happened to those good cartoons by Hugh Dalton? Oh, I guess he’s […]

Editor: The battle of Measures F and J, as described in the “Town Dandy” of Jan. 8, is a battle that never had to happen. The way to defeat Dave Meserve, Jack Nounann and Amy Goodman is for every family of Bush dead-enders to make sure at least one of their children enlists in the […]

Editor: There is one value that the row of Eucalyptus trees along the 101 corridor provide us that was not mentioned in your Jan. 8.article (“O, Eucalyptus,” Jan. 8). Viewed from across the bay they create a beautiful scenic vista. Please refer to the attached photographs that I recently took from Arcata’s marsh. Removing 50 […]

Editor: Many thanks to Dave Silverbrand for his article on Nancy Huntzinger and her murdered son Curtis (“Nancy’s Day,” Jan. 9).  As a father, community member and human being, I read his account of a mother who for 18 years refused to give up searching for answers about her son’s disappearance and was moved to […]

Editor: Kyana Taillon’s antiseptic images of the “upsides” [sic] of marijuana only serve to perpetuate the false notion that there are few negative effects from its cultivation and use (“New Year’s Eve,” Jan. 1). Perhaps her promise to explore “some of the darker aspects” in the future might include a close-up of the thin, tear-stained […]