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Editor: Don’t assume your Democratic member of Congress is doing everything they can to oppose Trump’s agenda (Mailbox, Feb. 3). Their voting records show otherwise. Senators Padilla and Schiff both voted to confirm Marco Rubio, who shut down and is now dismantling USAID, leaving millions of hungry children in the lurch along with trafficked women […]

Editor: President Trump loves tariffs. He has already imposed them with some exceptions on items from Canada, Mexico and China, although, at this time, the first two tariffs are paused for negotiations. Soon Trump will be proposing more tariffs with the “Reciprocal Trade Act” (RTA). The act would place U.S. tariffs on all imported goods […]

Editor: I agree that a compassionate, supportive and responsive community is a good ideal (Mailbox, Feb. 2). History doesn’t show that happens just yet. Meanwhile, I am worried that resisters to bullies and tyrants may not have the support of our whole communities. We have just elected a bully who surely knows how to take […]

Editor: Americans are deeply divided by their beliefs, often supported by untruths or poor arguments (Mailbox, Jan. 30). We allowed ourselves to become so divided today because we don’t question our sources. We waste our time (at best) arguing without the facts? As I said before; “Let’s remind ourselves that we are responsible for the […]

Editor: In response to the “Lemmings” letter (Mailbox, Jan. 16), while it’s true that history is full of instances of people supporting leaders against their own interests, extrapolating from that that Jews didn’t fight back and the Palestinians in Gaza didn’t resist is short-sighted and completely erroneous when looking at the reality. It is a […]

Editor: Thanks to John Dillon (“Yeo Appreciation,” Mailbox, Jan. 30) for his letter. I’ve been wanting to ask the NCJ to assign Yeo an additional column so he can expand on the brilliant, humorous and always moving with a hint of heart narratives he writes. Give him more space and give us more of him. […]

Editor: Gosh, what a caustic review of election season and including the fire tragedies from R. Brennan (Mailbox, Jan. 30). As an antidote, I’d love to see a copy in print of the Episcopalian bishop’s address I hear about from the inauguration. Susan Pence, Eureka Editor: Rick Brennan of Eureka seems to be ignorant of […]

Editor: So let’s see If I understand this. The westward migration of the invasive European human species resultedin trees being planted all across the Great Plains. Those trees, in turn, paved the way for the barred owl to migrate westward across the continent to invade the old growth forests on the West Coast (“‘Complex Tradeoffs’,” […]

Editor: Feb. 6 through Feb. 9 marks the 140th anniversary of the Eureka expulsion: when anti-Chinese activists engineered the expulsion of 300-plus Chinese community members (about 5 percent of Eureka’s population at that time). On Feb. 6, 1885, an argument between a few Chinese men escalated into a shooting, and a Eureka City Council member […]

Editor: Tired is a modest term for what we consider a wearying repetition of the “OMG, ain’t it awful; the state of health care in Humboldt (and the rest of the nation).” Once again we hear policy experts and healthcare leaders bemoaning the reality of a system that ope rates like a business where profit […]

Editor: If you cared about our national debt, you shouldn’t have voted for Trump (Mailbox, Jan. 16). Trump will spend and spend — after which a trillion dollar debt will seem to be a drop in the bucket. Pamela Markovich, Rio Dell

Editor: Candidate Trump promised the American public he was going to improve their lives after President Biden’s supposedly disastrous administration, so how has he helped so far? Before the inauguration, he and Melania each created “meme-coins.” It’s estimated this has increased the Trumps’ net worth by billions, so no help here. Among his first executive […]