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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 […]

Editor: Who doesn’t believe in the need for more affordable housing? So, when a young, personable woman knocked on my door many months ago asking me to sign a petition to convert Eureka City Schools’ vacant Jacobs site into affordable housing, I asked, “Who could possibly be opposed to the measure?” She said that the […]

Editor: Free speech is an inalienable human right that is essential for human dignity, and is protected by the First Amendment because our rights disintegrate without free speech. Censorship is a government tool used to silence critics and to control and manipulate its population. It is a form of political violence. Tyrants use censorship. The […]

Editor: The teamsters’ failure to endorse the Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in memory seems inexplicable given the audio of the Republican candidate and Elon Musk laughing about Musk saying he’ll fire any striking workers and the Republican candidate giggling and agreeing. I will give the same consideration to teamsters if they are […]

Editor: Measure O proposes to raise the sales tax by 1 percent countywide. Eureka has a 9.25-percent sales tax, and Arcata is poised to follow. If approved, our sales tax would be 10.25 percent, on par with the highest in the U.S. Measure Z (the 2014 half-cent increase) was promised as a solution to budget […]

Editor: Your editorial on Aug. 15, “VTY, Not Rob Arkley,” got one thing right: “Ultimately, it will be up to Eurekans to decide what happens downtown.” Voters will get to vote yes on Measure F and be a city that brings more housing downtown and to Jacobs without destroying small businesses like mine in the […]

Editor: Like two recent letter writers to the NCJ (Mailbox, Sept. 12), I love the character of Old Town Eureka — which is why keeping it vibrant and alive, whether through Friday Night Markets or building more affordable housing, is so important to me. The anti-housing Measure F is counting on deceit and a whole […]

Editor: What if you could stop a prolonged military attack with a phone call? Someone can: Joe Biden (Mailbox, Aug. 29).  The attack I’m referring to is the genocidal attack on the Gaza Strip. Genocidal is the only word that accurately describes what’s going on there. The Israeli military is destroying health centers, schools, religious centers and […]