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Editor: Common sense tells us that the city can’t remove 218-plus off-street parking spaces while adding 282-plus new apartments — and their vehicles — without unintended consequences. A yes vote on Measure F requires off-street parking at current levels, possibly building above these five parking lots, a common practice elsewhere in California. Hundreds of new […]

Editor: Kati Moulton serves our city so well. Kati asked our community, how can I be of service and for four years, she has followed through. Kati has held town halls genuinely asking her neighbors, what are your concerns? What are your ideas? She brought your voice into the rooms where decisions are made about […]

Editor: We can’t live without clean water. But we can live without malfeasance, sprawling development and cronyism. The former is on your HCSD ballot in the form of Heidi Benzonelli and Michael Hansen. The latter (sigh) in the form of Alan Bongio’s potential comeback. Under the current, respectful, leadership of Benzonelli, our water board directs […]

Editor: Measure O will increase the County sales tax by 1 percent. Eureka has a 9.25 percent sales tax. Arcata and Fortuna are proposing to follow. If approved, our sales tax in the largest commercial areas in the county would be 10.25 percent, which is among the highest in the entire U.S. The sales tax […]

Editor: I appreciated Susan Lefever’s asking Amy Gustin to supply specifics regarding her allegation that the Biden/Harris admin is censoring free speech (Mailbox, Oct. 3). I hope Amy responds; I, too, wanted to respond. I have accumulated a lot of data about this; here are just two examples: 1) In answering to a House Subcommittee on the […]

Editor: California Gov. Newsom “loaned” PG&E $1.4 billion for five or six years of nuclear power (“Conflicted RCEA Board Passes on Nuclear Power,” Oct. 3)? I have many questions about taxpayer money being used for this purpose. What is the interest rate and how long is the loan for and where did the funds come […]

Editor: With the preponderance of click bait gotcha, shockya headlines, we news consumers have become somewhat unshockable. The experience Anna Nusslock endured at St. Joe’s hospital broke through that wall (“State Sues St. Joseph Hospital,” Oct. 3).  As stated in the press release about the lawsuit against St. Joe’s hospital, ( Thank you Attorney General Bonta), […]

Editor: In 1985 Columbia University students blockaded Hamilton Hall for 21 days to demand divestment from apartheid South Africa. The University acceded six months later and the following year the U.S. Congress passed the Comprehensive Antiapartheid Act. Protests are occasionally successful in changing policy. The moral issue protested at Cal-Poly (“The Shit Show,” Oct. 3) […]

Editor: Rob Arkley got angry when he found out that Eureka was planning to build affordable homes on a public parking lot his employees use. He dubbed parking the “lifeblood” of downtown, and proceeded to pump over $1 million into a ballot measure to defend that parking and prevent the city from building homes for […]

Editor: Amy Gustin claims Kamala Harris will be a tyrant if she becomes president because the Biden administration supposedly censored and “targeted critics of government policy, experts with important information and ordinary citizens sharing their personal experiences,” which sounds bad. (Mailbox, Sept. 26). I wonder what sort of policies those experts criticized, and whether those who […]

Editor: I am voting Republican, since within Trump’s team will be characters of integrity. Tulsi Gabbard is one, and R.F.K., Jr. another. Kennedy said he worries that Kamala Harris would not be able to stand up to the military industrial complex, nor answer unscripted questions from the press. Linda Koenig, Eureka

Editor: I read that Security National Properties Holding Company, LLC (SNPH), has donated over $1 million into the “Yes on F” campaign and Eureka residents have now received two fliers from SNPH addressing the issue of alleged cheaters. Although these fliers overtly address the cheaters, their purpose is clearly also to encourage more individuals to […]