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Editor: After reading “Blog Jammin’ ” in the July 21 issue of your paper (“Walmart, Jesus and Books Without Borders”), I was reminded by Ryan Burns, in his footnote, of what the Humboldt County Ad Hoc Committee on Big Box Development, a group appointed by the Board of Supervisors at that time, had to say […]

Editor: The quote from me highlighted in your article on redistricting (“Drawing It Out,” July 21) conveys the opposite of my intent. In conversation with Ms. Walters, I spoke at some length on three topics: 1) how lucky North Coast fishermen are to have a congressman, Mike Thompson, who pays so much attention to our concerns; 2) […]

Editor: I read the article about the beauty pageant in your 30 June issue (“Really?”) and was disappointed by the framing of the pageant as a product of The Ink People. Although you later noted that the Ink People has over 60 programs, the text implied (in particular, the phrasing on the front cover) that […]

Editor: The beauty pageant supported by The Ink People (“Really?” June 30) represents yet another form of the highly constrictive and narrowly defined version of the female our young girls are steeped in. Is it a horrendous, dangerous or violent activity? Not necessarily on its own, but it needs to be seen together with all […]

Editor: In regards to the subversion of federal efforts to kill a Native American culture (“Tales of Subversion,” July 14), this is the story of many in our history. Over and over again people have been subjected to persecution and attempts to change this nation’s character into the puritanical vision of the 1600s. Native Americans […]

Editor:As a volunteer treasurer for the Scotia Swim Team, I am truly heartened to hear that such a plan is in the works (“The Deep End,” June 30). We do not have an Olympic-size pool in this area for teams to qualify for meets. In the last five years, we have lost many of our […]

Editor: Eureka City Manager David Tyson and the Eureka City Council can’t have it both ways (“Why Was Garr Fired,” June 30). Mr. Tyson fired Chief of Police Garr Nielson with the council’s blessing, but no one wants to talk about it, so they are calling it a confidential personnel decision. But Chief Nielson was officially […]

Editor: I’m not a renter, but I am something of a landlord. We bought our home in 1995 as first-time homebuyers and yes, we were then and still are “low income,” at least as described in your article. One of the main selling points was the mother-in-law unit, an 800 sq. ft. separate apartment that we thought […]

Editor: Midnight in Paris may have brought Charlie’s woody back but it took two Viagras just to get me through it (Filmland, June 16). I went on the pretense of Charlie’s review. I am normally not a big Woody Allen fan but like a couple of his flicks. And while I found the idea a […]

Editor: Once again outside “experts” “who had never heard of Humboldt’s weed reputation …. a media myth”  (“Happyland,” June 16) blather ostentatiously on how idiosyncratically dysfunctional we are here in goddess country. Fifteen percent of Humboldt’s businesses failed in 15 years? So what? What’s the norm elsewhere? Without qualitative comparisons with other regions, such statistics […]

Editor: If we want real affordable housing, let’s build one-room apartments, small cottages, single-wide manufactured houses, and new alternative small-scale domiciles (“Agonizing Over Apartments,” June 23)! My mom’s first house cost $15,000. Do we need to only build expensive, large homes for an aging, poorer population? Dave Ellis, Eureka  

Editor: Having just read the cautions set forth in Bill Walsh’s Lapsing Into a Comma regarding end-of-line hyphens, it was with pleasure taken at the Journal‘s expense to see “rear-range” in Zach St. George’s “The Right to Gather” article (June 23). Although not as humorous as the example set forth in Walsh’s book relating to […]